{"id":5,"date":"2013-09-01T16:32:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T23:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.makingmathematicians.com\/hollysblog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2013-09-01T16:32:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T23:32:30","slug":"welcome-to-my-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.makingmathematicians.com\/hollysblog\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to my blog!"},"content":{"rendered":"

My name is Holly Young and I am a mathematician, math teacher, and math trainer.\u00a0 I just recently left the classroom and decided to go out on my own to create resources for math teachers.\u00a0 By and large, math teachers have the raw deal in teaching, especially in secondary schools.\u00a0 The onus falls on the shoulders of the math teacher to lead every day, every minute of every lesson.\u00a0 We don\u2019t have scores of amazing National Geographic videos or Discovery websites that further our curriculum.\u00a0 If we have to be out of the classroom for a day, then we usually lose a whole day of instruction.\u00a0 It is my goal, therefore, to create useful media that math teachers can access and help forward student learning.\u00a0 I have lessons available for multiple grades and topics at www.makingmathematicians.com <\/a>and I will continue to add more lessons and useable media.\u00a0 This is a journey for me, so I will be constantly improving and creating new resources.\u00a0 If you have suggestions of what resources you would like to see on my website (or blog), please feel free to let me know.<\/p>\n

This first file that I am posting came to me as a sudden inspiration while training teachers on creating essential understandings (questions) in the classroom.\u00a0 As I was asking teachers to write an essential understanding that encompassed multiple grade levels along the same CCSS strand, I kept asking them, \u201cWhat is the essence of this strand, and why do we need to learn it?\u201d\u00a0 The result of that exercise came to me in a flash when I asked myself, \u201cWhy do we study the main topics in mathematics?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Math_poster<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My name is Holly Young and I am a mathematician, math teacher, and math trainer.\u00a0 I just recently left the classroom and decided to go out on my own to create resources for math teachers.\u00a0 By and large, math teachers have the raw deal in teaching, especially in secondary schools.\u00a0 The onus falls on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,18,19],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math-ideas-lesson-activities-for-every-classroom","tag-about-me","tag-math","tag-math-essential-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.makingmathematicians.com\/hollysblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.makingmathematicians.com\/hollysblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.makingmathematicians.com\/hollysblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.makingmathematicians.com\/hollysblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.makingmathematicians.com\/hollysblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.makingmathematicians.com\/hollysblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.makingmathematicians.com\/hollysblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.makingmathematicians.com\/hollysblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.makingmathematicians.com\/hollysblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}