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Jenna Laib @jennalaib.bsky.social · 12h

New Blog Post:
Inputs & Outputs

Reflecting on a session with Amy Lucenta and Grace Kelemanik at NCTM 2025, examining areas of cognition and micro-routines for engagement of all students.

Inputs and Outputs

I recently returned from NCTM in Atlanta. It was a beautiful week of learning and connection (and late night karaoke -- priorities). "Let's See What You're Saying." On Friday, I attended a session with Grace Kelemanik and Amy Lucenta entitled "Engage all students in mathematical ideas and processes by planning from the margins in." (It was predictably brilliant; I love…

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Jenna Laib @jennalaib.bsky.social · 23h

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Jenna Laib @jennalaib.bsky.social · 1d

Return DATE?

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Jenna Laib @jennalaib.bsky.social · 1d

Comparing Serena Williams’ Age with Her Opponent’s

Comparing Serena Williams' Age with Her Opponent's Making sense of association with bivariate data (*suggested by someone I met at the DS4E event at NCTM. I spoke with so many people that I can't remember which conversation this came from, so if…

Comparing Serena Williams’ Age with Her Opponent’s

Comparing Serena Williams' Age with Her Opponent's Making sense of association with bivariate data (*suggested by someone I met at the DS4E event at NCTM. I spoke with so many people that I can't remember which conversation this came from, so if it was you: e-mail me!)

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Jenna Laib @jennalaib.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, wait, that one is K-5. (Makes sense, based on Jody and Chepina’s work.) But there’s a 6-12 one, too, with some names I recognize!

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Jenna Laib @jennalaib.bsky.social · 1d

There are NCTM regionals but also state conferences with NCTM affiliates. Looks like you’re in NJ. Check this one out! Great featured speakers.

amtnj.org/conferences/

Conferences/PD | AMTNJ

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Christie Nold @christienold.bsky.social · 1d

There is a robust conversation already about supporting students digital literacy abilities.

This is good & necessary & (from what I can see) happening.

I would offer that there is an equally compelling case for the need to practice perspective taking.

I wish this was more supported.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 2d

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 2d

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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Jenna Laib @jennalaib.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve had the same experience with middle schoolers (4th grade vs 8th grade).

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Jenna Laib @jennalaib.bsky.social · 1d

I had that experience! South tower? Also I didn’t love the experience of feeling like I was in a glass tube jutting out of the building. Like… it was fine to get up to the lobby, but anything past the sixth floor was dizzying. 😵‍💫 (I guess anything more R, according to my hotel’s lexicon.)

Jenna Laib @jennalaib.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! That said, I bet we could get a stretch of it — the part that hugs the ground — using a tape measure. 🤔 We may be able to get a decent approximation if it turns out the segments of the slide are all the same length.

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Jenna Laib @jennalaib.bsky.social · 1d

I hope you’re able to go to another one in the future! Next year’s annual is in Denver.

Have you been able to attend any smaller/regional ones in your state? They can be just as good, with more opportunities to have conversations.

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Jenna Laib @jennalaib.bsky.social · 1d

Cop slide is looooong! Here’s a photo I took when the playground first opened. There is a twist at the beginning that is still obscured.

Any ideas how to measure it? Like maybe… yarn? That’s a math task in and of itself!

This slide will leave anyone who has attended middle school with bruises.

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Jenna Laib @jennalaib.bsky.social · 2d

I KNOW 🎶

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Forum for Equity in Elementary Mathematics @mathequityforum.bsky.social · 26d

Kids in the field test were super engaged in the slow-reveal graph that launches our Excursion, Languages in Our Class & Around the World (for Grades 3–5). They posed such interesting questions about the data, once it was revealed, many of which connected to the activities that followed.

Languages in Our Class and Around the World: A Data Excursion for Grades 3–5

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Sask Math Teachers @smtsca.bsky.social · 8d

Students talk, wonder, and make sense as the graph unfolds.

Can you guess what that dot with the question mark represents? 👀📈

Throwback to SUM with Jenna Laib’s Slow Reveal Graph.

slowrevealgraphs.com/2023/02/04/s...

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Jenna Laib @jennalaib.bsky.social · 2d

YES

One friend thought it might be “return” and “banish.” Name redacted to protect the innocent. 😜

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Jenna Laib @jennalaib.bsky.social · 2d

Although I guess inbound/outbound is actually more confusing, because it’s multi-directional, with a reference point that isn’t at the end of the line. Here we have two endpoints labeled.

Jenna Laib @jennalaib.bsky.social · 2d

Yes! Although, weirdly, the lobby just had R, and no B, even though the elevator was capable of going down.

Is that clear than up/down, or directional arrows? It feels very inbound/outbound.

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Jenna Laib @jennalaib.bsky.social · 2d

(I love everyone else’s photo dumps! Meanwhile, here I am posting a photo of my hotel room’s trash can. Fascinating messaging!)

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Jenna Laib @jennalaib.bsky.social · 2d

Back home from #NCTMATL25! ✨

A number of sessions left me thinking about communication in math class. Blog posts are brewing…

Oh, and a number of curious things at my hotel had me thinking about communication, in general. Check out this R&B elevator. Is this effective?

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Jed @jedediyah.com · 2d

Two things from #NCTMatl25 that I'm going to be using *this* week:

Gail Burrill's algebra problem, and @gwaddell.bsky.social and Ed Keppelmann's 4 pile Nim.

Slide shows: "Solve (x^2 -5x +5)^(x^2 -9x +20) = 1

NIM: 4 pile game
- Draw 4 piles of dots, one has 8, one has 4, one has 2, and the last has 1 dot.
- You can take as many as you want each turn, but only from 1 pile.
- The winner takes the last dot.

Do you see a winning strategy?

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Shelby Strong 💗💜💙 @sneffleupagus.bsky.social · 2d

Just like before, I'm saying it on social media for accountability...

THE MATH ROUTINE COLLABORATIVE IS COMING BACK!!!

Mark your calendars for January 2026!

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Jenna Laib @jennalaib.bsky.social · 2d

I’m so happy you came!

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Mike Deutsch @mdeutschmtl.bsky.social · 2d

Is this why I found my first NCTM so 💖-filling? Because the whole family tree is there at once, and they’re all just so good and easy to talk to? 🥹

Kim Montague @kimmontague.bsky.social · 2d

#mentors

Three women standing together speaking into a phone to record a podcast.

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