ECST Mathematics Department

Newsletter

October 3-7, 2022

ACTIONABLE ITEMs

Lesson Plan PLC Teams & Leads

Thank you to the WCT Team for completing this task. Let's go NT & PT!!!

At the department meeting a link to a spreadsheet was shared to indicate the LESSON PLAN PLC TEAMS and LEADS. Please meet with the members of your school math team to discuss and finalize the information requested by Thursday, September 29th at 3PM. The link to the spreadsheet is HERE.

PD - Quizizz Upgrade & Schoology Integration

NOTE: If you plan to integrate your Quizizz account with Schoology - hold on for a about a week. We are waiting for communication from Quizizz about how to fix that it creates its own category in the gradebook. More information will follow.

For those who indicated interest in PD on Quizizz, information will be emailed this week. If you are interested in attending or facilitating PD on Quizizz, click HERE.

REMINDERS & IMPORTANT NOTES

SEPT 26 - OCT 6 FOR EDCONNECT DIAGNOSTIC ASSESSMENTS
OCT 3-7 - PSAT SLIDE PRESENTATION DELIVERED TO 11TH GRADE
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2022 IS AN IN-SERVICE DAY
CALCULATORS WILL BE COLLECTED STARTING OCTOBER 18

Diagnostic Assessments

NOTE: The testing windows for the edConnect diagnostic assessments has been EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 6TH to accommodate makeups due to absences.

The Grade 12 and Honors Grade 11 students will take their diagnostic assessments the week of September 26-30 (EXTENDED TO OCT 6 FOR MAKEUPS). An email was sent on FRI, 9/23/2022 12:56PM with the details.

PSAT SLIDE PRESENTATION

As discussed in the math department meeting, the 10th & 11th grade math teachers should plan to share the PSAT Test Organization presentation with their students the week of October 3-7. NOTE: I will be doing a spot check to see who has shown this to their 11th grade students.

Share your National Metric Week activities on social media. Tag @usma_metric and use the hashtags #MetricWeek and #GoMetric.

Let's Celebrate!

During one of the summer PLCs, it was discovered that Metric Week is celebrated the week of October 9-14. (Metric Day is 10/10, of course!) In support of our colleagues in the Science Department, the following list of activities and fun items are offered. Please review the offerings and next week I will ask you to submit which you will be including in your instruction. They are all short and can be completed as a do now or exit activity. A minimum of one must be selected, unless you have an alternate activity suggestion.

Discussion: Top 10 Reasons the US Should Use SI
Discussion: Customary/Metric Infographic
Video: Why Is the Metric System Important? (7:11)
Video: Metric unit conversions shortcut: fast, easy how-to with examples (5:46)
Art: Design posters and bulletin boards about the metric system, showing its advantages, listing rules for metric usage or conversions, etc.

PS- PRINTABLE PAPER RULERS with instructions how to print them to scale.

PROFESSIONAL/INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES WORTH SHARING

Rory Yakabov (@iteachalgebra) - Hints on how to embrace PhotoMath instead of fighting it. ECST Math Team, these websites are too numerous to block. Let's discuss this more at our next department meeting.
Nancy Pi (New Content!) - Check out Nancy's PLAYLISTS
Jenna Laib - Slow Reveal Graphs What is a slow reveal graph? It starts with a graph that has been stripped of context: its numbers, its labels, its title. The teacher facilitates a discussion around what students notice and wonder. Students might notice that the data is roughly symmetric, or that it is clustered around a central point. They might notice a long line running perpendicular from the x-axis. They might wonder what this line represents. They might wonder what this graph is about. Then another slide is revealed. Students identify what information is new. From there, students can talk more about what they notice. Then another slide is revealed and so on. It forces the students to focus on the scale and labeling of the axes.

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