Hi, I’m Marian Small.
One of the best parts of my job
is to get around, travel, talk to teachers
in a lot of different locations, learn from them, and share with them.
I decided that another good way to share would be to use what has become called
M Magazine, a digital magazine that comes out regularly
that gives me a chance to share in another way.
Now, in the magazine, we have lots of features, just what you’d
expect in a magazine, some of them short little features, some of them longer ones —
and I’ll tell you about both of those things —
always new, every single issue.
So, in the short features, we have things like Ask Marian,
where teachers send in questions, and I’m able to respond to them —
sometimes through video, sometimes through text —
so that they get answers to the questions they’re wondering about.
We talk about things like hot topics,
and you’ve heard this phrase, and what does it mean,
and let me help you kind of figure all that kind of thing out.
We have little pieces that talk about children’s literature
and how you can use that to support mathematics teaching.
We have short videos.
that might show you how to do something, maybe create a number line on the floor.
So, all kinds of things that are practical and useful.
We have a section called Shareables, where in each issue
we create games and other activities that you can use directly with children
and they span Grades Kindergarten to Grade 8 so
that there are activities at all those grade levels.
There are also open questions, something that you may have heard about
that we provide, again, at all different grade levels. Now, because it’s a magazine,
you’d expect some big features and we have those. In every single issue,
there’s an opportunity to learn from a mathematics
educator. Sometimes they are teachers, sometimes they are professors, different
sorts of people who have all kinds of interesting background knowledge.
And we’ve ensured that every issue has one of those kinds of features.
We’ve talked about things like equity, we’ve talked about things
like financial literacy, we’ve talked about things like math anxiety,
and different ideas about how to deal with some of those issues.
I’ve also made sure there’s another feature of my creation
that deals with an issue that I think might be important to you.
One of the most valued
parts of the magazine are short videos
That are kind of like short webinars
that address topics that might be important to mathematics
teachers. We have, as I said, new stuff
every single issue, and I think that you’ll enjoy it.
One of the advantages of becoming a subscriber to the magazine
is that you have access to all the previous issues in an archive,
and you can see all of the things that came before
and use all of those things as well.
We’re embarking on our 18th issue
coming out soon, and we hope you join us and that you find
some valuable tools that will help you in your teaching.
in our magazine.
We hope to see you soon!