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FEEL LIKE YOUR KIDS ARE BEHIND?
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Fawn Nguyen LOVES teaching with visual patterns - and, after hearing why, you will too. She shares hundreds of them on her website, visualpatterns.org for FREE! As an experienced educator and veteran middle school teacher, she’s spent years finely honing the craft of using this warm up routine to help students make sense of math. In this episode, Fawn explains how there’s so much more to patterns than input-output tables, including seeing structure, algebraic thinking, and the opportunity to engage in mathematical modeling. Students receive rich benefits when teachers incorporate them in math lessons all year long - not just in the functions, expressions, and equations unit. Listen in to hear how you can get started with visual patterns right away!
Summary & Highlights: 
In this episode, Chrissy interviews Fawn Nguyen, 2nd year Teacher on Special Assignment with 30 years of experience in the classroom. In their conversation, Fawn shares:
  • how she came to realize the power of teaching with visual patterns
  • tips for implementing a visual pattern routine in any grade
  • why visual patterns are great for creating access to grade-level mathematics content for all students
Resource Links: 
Resources for Visual Patterns:

 - How To Use Visual Patterns (Fawn Nguyen’s Grassroots mini-workshop)
 - Visual Patterns- 480 different visual patterns you can use with your students

Other Sites:

 - Chewable Math website - 40 images of food products with information that can be used to teach ratios and proportional reasoning
 - Between 2 Numbers - 60 pairs of real-life situations with a question to answer involving proportional reasoning
 - FawnNguyen.com - Fawn's blog where she shares stories and lessons from the classroom

Connect with Fawn:

Twitter: @fawnpnguyen
Related Blog Post: 
link - by Chrissy Allison