Wow, 4th grade math was incredible today.

It turns out that if you provide space to dream answers, 4th graders will melt mundane mode problems into universal design.
"If they are only allowing one ingredient, we should ask people to find the mode and then order pizzas of that ingredient and some more as 'no topping' and then get other toppings at the store so everyone can eat."
The fact that they interject "food allergies" and "dietary restrictions" into every single food related word problem tells me that the youth are learning better than the folks running everything.
Day 2 of Modes: We explored a problem adapted from a Martin Gardner piece. They were offered a chance to guess a number from a mystery box to win $1000.

Student answer: "Tell him I appreciate the money, but I'd solve it for free. Solving mysteries makes every day fun."

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17 Mar
A reminder while @ISBEnews actively pushes another racist policy that they have no branch office in the largest district in the state of Illinois that also happens to serve an 89% non-white population.
People might try to imply that Rauner had a hand in this--I'm sure he made it worse--but almost exactly ten years ago, under a Democratic governors, @ISBEnews supported and defended a raise in the "Cut score" that DQed approximately 90% of candidates of color from teaching.
The exact same arguments were made: "Do you want students to have low quality teachers?" "Keep standards high".
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17 Mar
As my students marinate over last night's events, I want to share a few guidelines for covering racist atrocities. They are not comprehensive nor perfect--they are just things I've relied on in moments like now and I thought they might help someone.
#StopAAPIHate
I won't be able to answer or provide links immediately, as I will be stopping to support student work (of course). But I will try to answer some questions later.
DO remind students of the humanity of victims before discussing.
DO remind students this is not a game or a spectacle and it's different from fictional violence or media.
DO remind students of class norms around the humanity of all and that historical inequity has a direction
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