Math Instructional Coach at @DeZavalaPisd

Joined September 2022
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Meet November’s #MathGal Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the Fields Medal! @pisdmsmath @PISDMIDDLE
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DZ Admin got in on the fun of the PDSA Cycle by creating a Know/Show chart and Exemplar for an upcoming essential standard today! #LobosLEAD #RallyforReadiness
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The second DZ Math Bee is in the books! Congratulations to our winner, Daniel Vargas! We can’t wait to see how you do in the district Math Bee! #leveluplobos @PISDMIDDLE @pisdmsmath
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Today, the DZ #MathGals spent time learning about how Margaret Hamilton used coding to help NASA with the first lunar landing then practiced coding with the Hello World game on Code.org #PISDMiddle
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Ms. Galvan’s 5th graders reviewed ordering positive rational numbers on a number line and related the process to locating ordered pairs on a coordinate grid. #PISDMathChat #PISDMiddle
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I had a great time presenting a fast and furious session on #ProductiveMathStruggle for the PISD DWSD. Participants practiced modifying tasks to promote productive struggle and discussed various “struggle moves” a teacher can make to support students. #pisdmiddle #PISDMathChat
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Today, the DZ #MathGals spent time learning about Katherine Johnson’s contribution to math & science and working on the Four 4s Challenge. #PISDMathChat
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Happy P3 Day, Mathematicians! #PISDMathChat
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Our 5th graders worked on sorting triangles into sets and subsets based on their angle measures and side measures. Collaboration is a great way to help students get comfortable using new academic vocabulary. #pisdmiddle #PISDMathChat
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Ms. Dunn’s 5th grade students kicked off the start of 2024 by making Matholutions! Giving students time to reflect and set goals is a great way to help them build positive learning behaviors. #PISDMiddle #PISDMathChat @DeZavalaPisd
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A new #MathGal bulletin board is up for January! Are you familiar with Dr. Hayat Sindi? She is a biotechnologist that created a tool to help diagnose diseases in remote areas that often lack access to healthcare. #PISDMathChat
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Stacy Paxton retweeted
Happy Halloween from @DeZavalaPisd 🩷
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Meet November’s #MathGal, Tu Youyou, the first woman to receive a Novel Prize! She is displayed on the MathGals bulletin board for our Lobos to read about and celebrate! @PISDMIDDLE @pisdmsmath #LevelupLobos
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Stacy Paxton retweeted
29 Sep 2023
Did you know we can visually see why "keep change flip" works? Here's how!
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Ms . Garcia’s 5th grade math class created arrays to find factor pairs of a number, then used that information to determine whether the number was prime or composite. And I Spy one of our #MathGals club members hard at work! #PISDMathChat @PISDMIDDLE @pisdmsmath
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Today, I got a chance to work with group of students on adding and subtracting decimals. They recently tested over this topic, so I extended their thinking by completing a #DiagnoseTheError activity. #LevelUpLobos #PISDMathChat @PISDMIDDLE #P3ProblemSolver
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DZ’s 5th Grade Math team spent a part of their PLC meeting discussing how to use base-10 blocks to model decimal division, which will help students walk away with a concrete understanding of the concept. #PISDMathChat #PISDPLC #LevelUpLobos @PISDMIDDLE @pisdmsmath @DeZavalaPisd
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Stacy Paxton retweeted
18 Sep 2023
#1 reason why I hate the number 7:
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Students in Ms. Dunn’s 5th grade math class worked with a partner and in a small group to practicing estimating solutions before adding/subtracting decimals to check their work for reasonableness. @PISDMIDDLE @pisdmsmath #PISDMathChat
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The 6th grade math team spent time with PLC question 4 today. They used correct student strategies to brainstorm questions to ask in real time that will extend student thinking when they understand the concept. #PLCquestion4 #pisdmiddle #pisdmathchat @DeZavalaPisd
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