Sara VanDerWerf
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Small Change, Big Difference part 1. Why you should eliminate ‘POINT’ from your vocabulary.

Hello my friends. we are moments away from the start of 2019. When you

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • December 30, 2018
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Using Name Tents throughout the year. Guest Post.

My blog stats in the month of August EXPLODE each year.  One post that

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • August 24, 2018
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Math Fails 2018 Set #4 – 87 new pictures to download

For the 4th year in a row, on August 1st, I am releasing a new set of #mathfails

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • July 31, 2018
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Why I love having cell phones in my mathematics classroom!

On April 1, 2017 I wrote a post titled “Why I’ve started teaching

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • July 11, 2018
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MCTM 2018 5 ways Elementary Teachers can Support the work of Secondary Math Teachers RESOURCES

Hello you all!.  My friend Laura Wagenman approached me 6 months ago and

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • May 4, 2018
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NCTM 2018 Presentation Resources ‘Engaging Students in Seeing Structure’.

NOTE:  This is probably my longest post ever.  I tried to write up my

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • April 27, 2018
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My favorite question I ask strangers at conferences.

Hey all – I am sitting in a session the 2018 National Council of

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • April 27, 2018
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Why I always carry a $1 bill and 4 quarters when I teach. (aka ’30 seconds to Oh!-)

For most of my career I’ve taught classes with students with the

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • April 16, 2018
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Why I hang orange plastic golf balls from the ceiling of my classroom. A favorite teaching moment.

If you walk into room 219 at South High School you may want to duck if

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • April 8, 2018
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#NCTMannual 2018 Engaging Students in Seeing Mathematical Structure

I am doing a session at NCTM’s annual conference in Washington DC

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • April 3, 2018
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A peek inside my classroom space

My first day with students is this Monday.  I am sitting here on a Saturday

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • August 26, 2017
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Math as an analytic tool to challenge power, privilege and oppression. A place to start.

I will not let my silence mean I agree with what is going on around me

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • August 21, 2017
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2017-18 Math Holidays

I know a lot of us math educators have a love/hate relationship with celebrating

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • August 13, 2017
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STAND & TALKS. The best thing I ever did to get students talking to one another.

UPDATE 11.15.18:  I recently did a 1 hour Global Math Department

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • August 9, 2017
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My Week 1 Math Posts – plus something new

It is that time of year again when we are all heading (or about to head)

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • August 6, 2017
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My speech to myself to start the 2017-18 school year. #goals

Today I was leaving Target walking towards my car.  20 feet in front of

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  • Sara VanDerWerf
  • August 1, 2017
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