Visual Patterns & Practice Standards: A Conversation with Fawn Nguyen

Making Math Moments That Matter

This week we bring on another 2023 Make Math Moments Virtual Summit speaker: Fawn Nguyen!

Fawn is on the Math Advance Team at Amplify Desmos Math. She was a math coach for a K-8 school district for three years. Before that, Fawn was a middle school teacher for 30 years. Fawn was the 2014 Ventura County Teacher of the Year. In 2009, she was awarded the Math Teacher Hero from Raytheon. In 2005, she was awarded the Sarah D. Barder Fellowship from the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth.

Fawn will share why understanding the impact of your past choices in the classroom is necessary for your growth, how learning how to visualize mathematics allows educators to break free from the rush to the algorithm, and how to teach with the website visualpatterns.org the right way!

You’ll Learn:

• Why understanding the impact of your past choices in the classroom is necessary for your growth;
• How learning how to visualize mathematics allows educators to break free from the rush to the algorithm;
• How to embed the 8 mathematical practice standards into you classroom lessons;
• Practical classroom routines to amplify student discourse;
• How to teach with the website visualpatterns.org the right way! And,
• Why math class could and should be as fun as recess;

Resources:

Twitter: @fawnnguyen

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https://Visualpatterns.org

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