Mathematical Practice #2

Reason Abstractly and Quantutatively

What in the world does that mean? Check out the posters below to help you make sense of practice #2. 

Grades Kindergarten-1st Grade

Grades 2nd-4th Grade

Wonder of the Week September 26- October 2

Wonder of the Week

Why do oceans have waves? 

Make sure to put your answer in the "Wonder" box outside of the cafeteria by Thursday! The winner will be announced on Friday. Happy Wondering!

Wonder of the Week: Sept. 22-26

Wonder of the Week: September 22-26

Why do you blink your eyes?

CONGRATULATIONS TO KAILEY RIDINGS!!!! She was our wonder of the week winner! She will share her answer with the school on Monday morning. Click on the link below to see the answer to the wonder of the week.

http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/why-do-you-blink-2/

Mathematical Processes

Check out this awesome resource on the mathematical processes. It connects very well to our mathematical practices. It provides you with instructional strategies, the roles of students, and sample questions and feedback for problem solving, reasoning and proving, reflecting, selecting tools and computational strategies, connecting, representing, and communicating.Thank you Mrs. McLean for sharing! :)

http://www.edugains.ca/resources/LearningMaterials/MathProcesses/MathProcessessPackage.pdf

Mathematical Practice #1

Implementing the 8 mathematical practices is essential in creating a classroom of innovators, risk takers, and problem solvers.  Each week, I will post about one of the mathematical practices.

Mathematical Practice #1: 

Make Sense of Problems and Persevere in Solving Them

It is important for teachers to know how to implement each mathematical practice because that is beneficial in modeling for our students, but in the end what's most important is for our students to be implementing the practices in the math classroom. Here is a student friendly poster for practice #1.

Grades K-1:

Grades 2-3:

**Please let me know if you want a copy of the student-friendly mathematical practices. :)

Click the link below and type in your PD360 username and password to check out a video from PD360 on Mathematical Practice #1:

https://www.pd360.com/#resources/videos/7287

Do You Have Early Finishers?

I had to share this cool idea I found! When I taught 1st and 4th grade I always had early finishers. It didn't matter whether it was math workstations, group work, or independent practice, I always had a few students that would finish early and be bored out of their minds. This is a great way to challenge students and keep them problem solving after they have completed a task. The students can complete this in a "challenge" notebook or in the back of their math journals.