Making Math Moments That Matter
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Visual Patterns & Practice Standards: A Conversation with Fawn Nguyen
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!
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Resources:
Twitter: @fawnnguyen
fawnpnguyen@gmail.com
https://Visualpatterns.org
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Episode 88: How To Start The School Year Off Right From A Distance
Episode 139: Making Math Moments From Day 1 to 180
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