Fawn Nguyen
Fawn Nguyen is a math teacher from California.
http://fawnnguyen.com/mathtalks-net/
Visual Patterns
http://www.visualpatterns.org/
Problem Solving Tasks
- Picture Frame http://fawnnguyen.com/got-beg/
- Hotel Snap http://fawnnguyen.com/hotel-snap/
- Noah's Ark
- DesMan for Desmos
Things Teacher School Never Warned Me About
In 2013, Nguyen delivered an Ignite Talk at CMC-North that was praised for its humor and honesty. In the talk she describes her early schooling in Vietnam, which included memorization, corporal punishment and explicit ranking of students. Despite feeling that her teacher preparation program provided her with training in classroom management, she identifies elements of teaching that she was unprepared for, such as "crazy parents" or the strong feelings she developed for her students.
More than any particular insights about teaching, the talk conveys a personality and narrative that is often not associated with teachers and teaching.