Brianne Major

Trying to summarize how I have changed and grown as an educator over the past 5 years in less than 8 pages was a challenge, but it is done! Here’s to hoping I stay #NBCTstrong!

I used area formulas instead of similar triangles to arrive at the same result

Everything about this ad makes me scratch my head. 1. That’s quite an advanced 5th grader studying proofs 2. The math shown is neither angles nor proof 3. The advanced 5th grader is also solving quadratics 4. Do they even have math teachers proof these things?

The 7th grade math team has Spartan Spirit for #ThatSpartanGearThursday! Another day of connecting with colleagues on common planning zooms is in the books! #MHSSpartanStrong 💪

Reflecting tonight on how amazing our teachers have been in taking on this new way of teaching and learning with passion, enthusiasm, and a deeply student-centered focus. It’s an honor to work with these incredible people everyday. Keep it up, Spartans! #MHSSpartanStrong 💪

Happy Monday Spartans! Week 3 of Virtual Learning is off to a great start! Our 5th graders are continuing to explore polygons in our virtual format - here’s some photos of their learning in action last week! Keep being #MHSSpartanStrong and #begolden in your learning 💪

Mrs. Kemmlein’s students give learning together virtually a big thumbs up! Keep up the awesome work and finish Friday strong, Spartans! #MHSSpartanStrong

Thursday’s just aren’t the same without seeing my Catherine Hall colleagues during common planning, so we met virtually instead! Here’s a fun screenshot of our 5th grade Zoom meeting yesterday. Even Mr. Hershey snuck in! Keep up the awesome work, Spartans! #MHSSpartanStrong

Just because our students are learning from home doesn’t mean that they can’t still #learntogether with MATHia! Mrs. Murray is using Google Meet to invite her 7th grade students to support each other as they work together through their virtual learning! #longlivemath

Thank you so much @CLSandyBartle for joining us today for an AMAZING day full of rich mathematical conversations and exploration. We are so grateful for your time and energy, and for letting us get a glimpse into one of the powerful minds behind @carnegielearn! #LongLiveMath

It’s a beautiful night to cheer on the @miltonhershey Lady Spartans soccer team! Let’s go MHS! #MHSPowerOfOne

Our next recipient of the math dept. Pancake Award at Catherine Hall is Mrs. McCann! Mr. V passed it off to recognize how she kicked off the year by taking a risk and implementing collaborative tasks to get her students learning together from day one! @egyptiansteam #BeGolden

Check out Mrs. Rafferty’s awesome WIN math activity today! Students played a game of Bump to practice comparing numbers. I heard great conversations about strategies for comparing multi-digit numbers and saw lots of awesome student interactions!

What a great transition strategy to keep students thinking even between stations! By the end of the transition, students need to be prepared AND know 219+10. Mrs. Stoutz keeps her students in brains-on mode all the time in math! @Stoutzenheroes @MHPrincipals

What a neat collaborative challenge in Algebra 1 to promote critical thinking, revision, and perseverance! Students had to create a 5x5 matrix of cards with a sum of 31 in each row and column (ace = 1 and face card = 10). What is your solution to this task? #mtbos #mathchat

Today was full of more collaborative learning activities as well as a textbook scavenger hunt up at Catherine Hall! Students are learning how to best use their resources - both those in print AND in person! #lead180