Teaching Math Flashcards
What is the purpose of the before lesson phase?
To activate prior knowledge, ensure students understand the task and establish clear expectations for the task.
What kinds of questions can you ask to make sure students understand the task in the before lesson phase?
- What is the problem asking?
- What does that mean?
- Do we have enough information?
- What do you know to get you started?
- Questions about key vocabulary
What is the teacher’s role in the during lesson phase?
Let go and allow students to spend time with the task, notice students’ mathematical thining, and provide appropriate support and extensions.
What questions can you ask to understand a student’s thinking and help them navigate the problem?
- What is the problem asking you to do?
- How have you organized the information?
- What about this problem is challenging?
- Is there a strategy or manipulative you could try?
How should you respond if a student asks, “Is this right?”
- “Why do you think that might be right?”
- “How can you tell?”
- “Can you check that somehow?”
What questions can you ask to support student thinking without telling them which strategy to use or giving the answer away?
- What have your tried?
- Where did you get stuck?
- Have you thought about….
- What if you used…to help you?
What questions can you ask to extend the task in an interesting way?
- What if….?
- Could you find another way to solve it?
In which phase does the most learning occur?
the After Phase
What is the teacher’s role in the after phase of the lesson?
Promote a mathematical community of learners, listen actively without evaluation, and summarize main ideas and identify future tasks.
What are some high leverage routines you can use to develop numeracy and active engagement in mathematical thinking.
- 3 Act Math Tasks
- Number Talks
- Worked Examples
- Warmups and Short Tasks
- Learning Centers
What are the 3 acts in a 3 act math task?
- Act 1: The teacher shares visual context for a problem, such as a picture or video, that peaks student interest and curiosity.
- Act 2: Students identify possible variables needed and define a solution path.
- Act 3: The teacher reveals the problem through digital media, and students share and discuss the math behind it.
What is a number talk?
A - minute discussion about a specific problem and how it might be solved.
Worked example
Correct, incorrect or partially completed problems that students analyze to develop procedural and conceptual knowledge.
What kind of knowledge do worked examples improve?
procedural and conceptual
What are the 3 ways you can differentiate a lesson?
- Content: What you want them to know
- Process: How they will engage in the task.
- Product - What they will show, write or tell to demonstrate learning
Open questions
broad and invite meaningful responses at many different developmental levels
Tiered Lessons
provide students with similar problems that focus on the same goals but are adapted for different levels.
What are the 4 ways tiered lessons can be differentiated?
- Degree of Assistance: provide examples or allow students to work with a partner
- How the task is structured: Students with special needs may need increased structure while gifted students will benefit more from open ended tasks.
- Complexity of task given: Tasks can be more concrete or more abstract and include different levels of difficulty and applications.
- Complexity of process: The pace of the lesson can vary as well as how many instructions are given at one time. The complexity of the process can also be adjusted with the number of high-level thinking questions.
Parallel task
Students are allowed to choose which to complete. All tasks are focused on the same goal.
What are the five process standards from Principles and Standards for School Mathematics?
- Problem Solving
- Reasoning and Proof
- Communication
- Connections
- Representation
What are the 8 Standards for Mathematical Practice from CCSS
- Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
- Reason abstractly and quantitatively
- Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
- Model with Mathematics
- Use appropriate tools strategically
- Attend to precision.
- Look for and make use of structure.
- Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoining.
What does it mean to reason abstractly and quantitatively?
- Make sense of quantities and their relationships in problem situations.
- Represent situations using symbols (e.g. writing expressions or equations)
- Create representations that fit the word problem.
- know and use flexibly the different porperties of operations and objects to solve the problem
What does it mean to look for and make use of structure?
- Identify and explain mathematical patterns or structures
- Shift viewpoints and see things as single objects or as comprised of multiple objects or see expressions in many equivalent forms.
- Explain why and when properties of operations are true in a particular context.
What does it mean to look for and express regularity in repeated reasoining?
- Notice if patterns in calculations are repeated and use that information to solve other problems.
-Look for and use general methods or shortcuts by identifying generalizations. - Self assess as they work to see whether a strategy makes sense, checking for reasonableness prior to finalizing their answer.
Instrumental understanding
Students know what to do but don’t know why they do it
Relational understanding
Students know what to do and why they do it that way. They can make connections to other areas.
What does it mean to do math?
Finding and using strategies to solve problems and then checking to see whether the answer makes sense.
What are the 5 strands of mathematical proficiency?
Conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, productive disposition, adaptive reasoning, strategic competence.
Strategic competence
the ability to formulate, represent, and solve math problems.
Adaptive reasoning
the capacity students have for logical thought, reflection, explanation, and justification.
Productive disposition
The tendency to view mathematics as sensible, useful and worthwile.
What strategies can math teachers use to improve student learning, considering prior knowledge, communication, reflection, and diversity?
- Build new knowledge from prior knowledge
- Provide opportunities to communicate about mathematics
- Create Opportunities for Reflective thought
- Encourage Multiple Strategies
- Engage students in productive struggle
- Treat errors as opportunities for learning
- Scaffold new content
- Honor diversity
What is the problem with teaching for problem solving?
Students learn a concept and then apply it to story problems, they learn that they problems they complete ask them to use the skill they just learned. They are not developing problem solving skills, only the ability to pick out the numbers and apply the skill.
What is the difference between teaching for problem solving and teaching about problem solving?
Teaching for problem solving is teaching a skill to have students apply it to a problem, but teaching about problem solving is teaching students how to solve problems as well as the strategies that can help them.
What is the 4 step problem solving process?
- Understand the problem
- Devide a plan
- Carry out the plan
- Check your work
list the 7 problem solving strategies
- Visualize
- Look for patterns
- Predict and check for reasonableness
- Formulate conjectures and justify claims
- Create a list, table or chart
- Simplify or change the problem
- Write an equation
What is teaching through problem solving
Students learn mathematics through inquiry and exploring different concepts, problems, and situations.
What are some of the things students do when they engage in problem solving and inquiry of mathematics?
- Ask questions
- determine solution paths
- Use mathematical tools
- Make conjectures
- Seek out patterns
- Communicate findings
- Make connections to other content
- Make generalizations
- Reflect on results
What does teaching through problem solving do for students?
- Focuses student attention on ideas and sense-making
- Develops mathematical practices and concepts
- Devleops student confidence and identity
- Builds on student strengths
- Allows for extension and elaboration
- Engagees students so that there are fewer discipline problems
- Provides formative assessment data
- Invites creativity
Tasks that promote problem solving
Tasks that promote problem solving create experiences for students where they can develop their mathematical skills and practices.
What are the 3 requirements of a task that promotes problem solving?
- High level cognitive demand
- Multiple entry and exit points
- Relevant contexts
Multiple entry and exit points
A problem with a variety of different ways it can be approached with varying levels of difficulty as well as multiple ways of expressing the solution.
What are 2 ways you can make relevant contexts for tasks that promote problem solving?
Using literature and connect to other disciplines
What kinds of questions can the teacher ask to promote mathematical discourse?
- How did you decide what to do? Did you use more than one strategy?
- What did you do that helped you make sense of the problem?
- Did you find any numbers or information you didn’t need? How did you know that the information was not important?
- Did you try something that didn’t work? How did you figure out it was not going to work?
Wait time
Give students time to think before responding
What are the 5 talk moves for understanding ideas?
- Wait time
- Partner talk
- Revoicing
- Say more
- Who can repeat?
What are the 3 talk moves for deepening student reasoning and understanding?
- Why and When
- What do you think?
- Tell me more
List examples of why and when talk moves
Why do you think that is true?
When will that strategy work?