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Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I tried an inter-library loan, hopefully it comes through quickly! Thank you so much!

Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

The article is “Let’s Spend Time Together: Text Messaging Parents to Help Math-Anxious Students”- if you have access to it, I would appreciate it!

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Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Any chance someone with an NCTM membership could send me an article I need for a class I’m taking? 🙏🏻 #ITeachMath

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Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I always picture an equal sign with the lines moving to show the bigger side

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Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I’m reading that book as well! Just finished Day 6 and it’s really resonating with me. May need to sit with it a bit. Did you read his book 4000 weeks too?

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Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Anything you’re considering getting rid of, put it away (out of sight) for 3 months. If you make it 3 months and no one has needed it, you’re ready to pass it along!

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Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Amie untangles an issue that’s been percolating in math education for a while now- one that’s caused me to disengage a bit. Hoping to learn more and re-engage with a new perspective. “Teaching is too complex, and educational contexts too varied, to be reduced to one-size-fits-all solutions.” 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

So those are the numbers *with* incentive pay?! 😬 I hate to see what they look like now

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Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

You take 10 steps, but there are 9 stairs? Maybe?

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Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Is sub pay the same at all schools?

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

2/2 "Phrases such as 'higher achievement,' 'positive outcomes,' and 'better results' typically refer only to standardized test scores. These are poor indicators of intellectual proficiency and primarily measure either socioeconomic status or the extent of students' training in test-taking skills."

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Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I wonder if this is related to our tendency to go a mile wide and an inch deep?

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Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I feel like of all the sets of numbers, whole numbers are the most intuitive. If they can get that one, the rest sort of work off of that

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Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Off the top of my head- all the whole numbers and their opposites?

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Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Trying to explain to my 4-year-old that I don’t need as much sleep as she does. This did not help 🤦🏻‍♀️ #badgraphs #ITeachMath #TMWYK

Chart comparing required hours of sleep for different age groups

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Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

True! I just think it’s more natural with the “new” method. Especially when you can see the place value/zeros.

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Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I really liked your framing in the second note. That’s sort of how I approached factoring and had a great deal of success (or so I thought). I taught the steps independently and put it all together at the end (this is when I used the box method)

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Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I thought it was Thursday ALL DAY. It’s so disappointing when you repeatedly realize tomorrow is not Friday

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Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The changes to tables in docs…I’ll never understand!

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Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

That makes sense to me and aligns with my thinking. I was hoping to get some thoughtful push back on the other side, but maybe that won’t happen when I’m mostly asking a feed of math teachers! (Most people who disagree with me haven’t taught math) Perhaps #EduSky would have been a better tag!

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Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

What school? I was in LCPS at River Bend Middle School from 2011-2015

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Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Okay, I’ll give them a try!

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Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

But have you tried dark chocolate Reese’s thins?!?

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Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I think that there are some pedagogical practices that go across content areas, but for math and reading in particular, there is specific content knowledge that can be helpful to best support students. The model I coach in is not content-based though

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Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

…think it’s helpful to be coached/mentored by someone who has content-specific knowledge? Would love to hear others’ perspective to push my thinking on this! (or if you know of research on this topic, would love to hear about that too!)

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Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Hello! I’m so happy to have the #ITeachMath community back ❤️ I taught math for 13 years, but this is my first year as an instructional coach. Something I’ve been struggling with in this new position is the role of content-area “expertise” in the coaching world. (When) do you… 1/2

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Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I’ve got a 4 year old! 🙋🏻‍♀️

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Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

I like the “new” way because you can work your way towards the correct answer without necessarily doing it the same way!

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Sarah Gooch @sgooch.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Came to blue sky hoping to find them too!

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