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.

"Take-Aways" from Sandra Goff

The Friday before school started, I had the opportunity to listen to Sandra Goff speak about the mathematical practices, fluency, and much more. I have listed some "take-aways" from the presentation below.

• Mathematical practices are not optional...You need to be doing some of them everyday!
• If students know how to solve a problem they should be able to Model It!
• Math Tool Kits...tools are not only the manipulatives that we want our students to use, but they are strategies, such as a using a number line and base ten blocks, rounding, multiplication, and division. Students also need to know how and when to use the appropriate strategy, and they need to be given opportunities to select the tool they think they should use.
• Fluency: there are 3 parts of fluency- students must be able to use and understand fluency; if they don't know how to do it, you can't expect fluency

Ideas for Fluency:

1. Pocket Fact: Each student gets a fact (write a fact on a card); their job is to know that fact at anytime during the day; you can switch the cards the next day; ask the kids the fact throughout the day
2. Wear facts as your name of the day: students call each other the fact they have on the name tag instead of their name- Example: "2x2=4 will you play with me?"

Each week, I am going to focus on one mathematical practice. Check back on Tuesday for information on mathematical practice #1: Making Sense of Problems.