Math(s) coach at UWCSEA East
Singapore
Joined October 2015
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#WorldBookDay Thursday March 3rd.
Here are some fantastic reads to help make this #WBD2022 an LGBT+ one, where every child in every classroom can see themselves & their family in a book #DifferentFamiliesSameLove. For the full article see InTouch magazine into.ie/media-centre/publica…
🙌🏻 Amazing to have another in-person parent workshop. ❤️
SO wonderful to have parents back on campus at #uwcsea_east. Discussing & exploring the #uwcsea curriculum with @JenJuteau @PatrickRenouf & Tracy Jochmann. #uwclearn @PmarkeyPauline @bjclappy
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Logan’s been learning about primes at school so we checked out how every prime (apart from the pesky 2 and 3) is one away from a multiple of six! ❤️
Patrick Renouf retweeted
"I can recite the names of Henry VIII’s wives but I was never taught about colonialism and enslavement and slavery."
In a new series, @ukblackpride co-founder @MsLadyPhyll has opened up about what growing up as a Black, LGBTQ+ person was like in the UK
gaytimes.co.uk/life/lady-phy…
Patrick Renouf retweeted
When teaching is characterized as "helping a flower to grow in its own way", due emphasis is placed on learning as development & treating young children as developing mathematicians from the start.
Equity & access are ensured; empowerment of all is the result.
Fosnot and Jacobs
Patrick Renouf retweeted
Mathematics should be thought of as a human activity of “mathematizing” - not as a discipline of structures to be transmitted, discovered or even constructed, but as schematizing, structuring and modeling the world mathematically.
- Hans Freudenthal
So true. It was damaging legislation that’s still being undone today.
Russell Tovey says he and others in his generation have 'Section 28 in their blood' pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/12/ru…
How many of our students do this day-in-day-out?
This is the story of Fields Medalist winner, it happens to the best of us!
mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017…
Patrick Renouf retweeted
"Curricula and textbooks are designed with trivial, unchallenging questions, so that students will get a high percentage of answers correct. .... Here’s the problem, though. Getting questions right is not a good brain exercise."
@joboaler
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Students should be given opportunities to reason about the size of fractions. Unit fractions help build conceptual understanding! #nomorebutterly, #notricks, #MathWhys
Patrick Renouf retweeted
If I ever become pregnant, I'm going to throw a gender reveal party and reveal that gender is a social construct. I will have slides, and there will be a quiz.
Patrick Renouf retweeted
21 years ago today, the Tories celebrated 'a victory for common sense' when Thatcher's homophobic Section 28 was saved pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/07/se…
It just wasn’t an option.
What was it like being #LGBTatSchool? Did you get the support you needed? Did your school deal well with bullying? Quote this tweet with the hashtag #LGBTatSchool and share your stories on why we urgently need to tackle LGBT bullying.
A random tweet for the sober curious out there or those doing Dry January. This article sums up why I've been sober since July. Especially these words:
