Math Moments with Mrs. Sheehan

A few weeks ago, I saw conversations about number talks on twitter and I thought, "How can I incorporate these asynchronously in a distance learning model?" Then, like magic, I came across a webinar from  Achieve the Core  and decided to sign up. During the webinar, Bethany Lockhart Johnson demonstrated how she used Flipgrid with her kindergarteners by having them record their answer to a problem, and then she would create a summary video where she pointed out different solutions and strategies and she shared that with her students. Check out her post about it  here . I was inspired by Bethany's idea, and I thought, this would work perfectly for an asynchronous number talk! I have used flipgrid in the past, but only a couple of times and not with many kids at once. So I put out a call to the #mtbos to help me out, and they delivered! I created a topic with a number talk using visual patterns (I got this idea from Sara Van Der Werf, check out the blog post  here ). I asked

At this point we all agree that we will inevitably  have at least some of our students learning virtually this year (or at the very least, absent from our classrooms for an extended period of time).  Our school hasn't decided what school will look like in August yet, but I want to be prepared. We will be one-to-one this year, so I plan to use our chromebooks often. One of my goals is to find ways to improve my online teaching experience from the spring. We used google classroom at our school. Overall, I think it's great. It's easy to use, you can schedule assignments ahead of time, and giving feedback is a breeze. However, there are some things I didn't like about it: Not being able to have important information pinned on the stream Being overwhelmed by all of the documents and information on the classwork page (even when it was organized) Not having a central place to post important links to things we used often Thankfully, our school required us (and paid for) all of