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Just prior to spring break in a pandemic school year when nothing in education has been perfect, Tiffany Martinson asked her class of first-graders at Washington Elementary an elementary kind of question to kick off a math lesson on value number charts: “Who can tell Ms. Martinson what number this is?”
Martinson has taught at Washington for seven years and works in the same school district — Vancouver Public Schools — she grew up in.
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