talk math (nctm)

Kids say – I wanna talk about ME!

Gina Griffin-Evans

Fairfax County, VA

Getting to know you?

• Are you a Middle School Teacher?

• Are you a High School Teacher?

• Do you use Cooperative Learning in your classroom?

• Have you gone to a Kagan Cooperative Learning training?

Reflect

• What percentage of the time do you talk during a class period?

Research shows on average in the United States teachers do almost 80% of the talking in a classroom.

Reflect

• What percentage of your students are overtly active engaged at once in your classroom?

4% - (1/28)

25% - (7/28)

50% - (14/28)

“ There is nothing more unequal than volunteer participation in a

heterogeneous classroom”

Spencer Kagan

Kagan Publishing & Professional Development

• Cooperative Learning Institute

• Presenter - Jeff Dane

Cooperative Learning

• Research Based

• Increase student achievement by 26%– Marzano

• Cooperative Learning is not Group work!

6 Keys to Make Cooperative Learning Work!

Teams will manage social skills and principles through structures.

Structures

Principals

SocialSkills

Management Will

Teams6

5

4

3 2

1

Principles

P Positive Interdependence

I Individual Accountability

E Equal Participation

S Simultaneous Interaction

Classbuilders & TeambuildersClassbuilder – once a week

Teambuilder – twice a week

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Forming Teams

• Heterogeneous• Groups of 4 with 4 levels ( H, HM, LM, L)• Remain together for 6 weeks (half quarter)

Kagan Structures

• Built with PIES• Content Independent

So Let’s Try Some Structures

Reflection Questions:

– Is this a Class Builder, Team Builder , Content Activity or a combination?

– What other topics could I use with this structure?

Stand – n - Share

List true statements about this diagram.

Stand – n - Share

• All students stand with their own list.• Teacher calls on one student to share• Students add the shared item to their

list if they don’t have it or check it off if they do.

• Students sit when all their items are shared, continuing to add each new item to their list.

• When all students are seated, Stand-n-Share is complete.

Think Pair Share

1. Teacher announces topic and time

2. Think time

3. A shares; B listens

4. B responds and praises

5. B shares; A listens

6. A responds and praises

Think Pair Share

• Please work with your shoulder partner. • You will each have 15 seconds to answer the

following question.• What are your memories of the

Inauguration?

• Think Time• Share

Think Pair Share

• Please working with your shoulder partner. • You will each have 15 seconds to answer

the following question.• What is a special number in

Algebra and why is it special?

• Think Time• Share

Match Mine

Find a partner who can turn their back to the screen.

Describe to them the picture that will be shown so they can create one to match!

Match Mine

Make A Stand

1. Give Student Identity

2. Stand up if the statement is true about you!

Make A Stand

You know the different between a linear and quadratic equation.

Your birthday is in this month.

You have been teaching more than 20 years.

You are a first year teacher.

Make A Stand

Pick up one of the Quadratic Equation on your table.

This is your new identity.

Make A Stand

Take a moment to think about what you know about your new identity.

Talk to your shoulder partner about what you two have in common.

Make A Stand

Open Up

Vertex in the second quadrant

If your domain is all real numbers.

Has no x-intercept.

y-intercept is positive.

Team

Find four people close to you to form a team of four!

Robin Structures

1. Teacher asks a question.

2. Teammates take turns answering.

We will begin with team member #1 and move to the right.

Round Robin

• You will each have 10 seconds to answer

the following question.• If math was a color, what color

would it be and why?

• Think Time• Share

Rally Robin

• Take turns giving answers the following

question.

• Give a true statement about the function f(x) = x2 + 5x + 6.

• Think Time• Share

Find the Fiction Teammates write 3 statements: 2 true and 1 false.

One student on each team stands, and then reads his or her statements to teammates.

With out consulting teammates each student writes down his or her own best guess as to which statement is false.

Teammates Round Robin and defend their “best guess” (Note: teacher may or may not ask teams to attempt to reach consensus)

Teammates announce their guess

The standing student announces the false statement.

Students celebrate!

Example:

y = 3x + 2

1. This line has a y-intercept that is odd

2. This line is parallel to the line y = 3x – 4.

3. This line has a positive slope.

Find the Fiction

Choose a quadrilateral and write a the top of your paper.

Then write 3 statements about your line:

2 true and 1 false.

Mix Pair Share

1. Students Mix

2. Teacher Calls, “Pair”

3. Hand Up, Pair Up

4. Teacher asks Question, gives think time

5. Share

Mix

• Look people in the eye• Give Greeting “Hi, I am -?- ”• Contact – Hand Shake, Knuckles

Mix Pair Share #1• Mix• Rally Robin

– Partners repeatedly take turns, answering orally• Question:

”What is similar about these two functions:

y = 3x + 4 and 4x – 2y = - 8 ?

• Think Time• Share• Departing Message

Quiz-Quiz-Trade

• Stand Up, Hand Up, Pair Up• Partner A quiz• Partner B answers• Partner A Praise and/or coach• Switch roles• Partners trade cards• Repeat

Quiz-Quiz-Trade

• Round One:– Use your blue cards

• Round Two:– Use your green cards.

Four Corners

1. Read the question

2. Go to the corner that best describes you or your opinion

3. Pair up with a partner within each corner

4. Pair-share about why you chose this corner

5. Paraphrase your partner’s reason

If I could be an animal for a day, I would be a …

1. Bear

2. Dog

3. Cat

4. Monkey

What is the best way to solve the quadratic equation you were given?1. Factoring Method ( ) ( ) = 0

2. Square Root Method

3. Completing the Square

4. Quadratic Formula

______ _____

Mix

• Look people in the eye• Give Greeting “Hi, I am -?- ”• Trade Cards.

What is the best way to solve the quadratic equation you were given?1. Factoring Method ( ) ( ) = 0

2. Square Root Method

3. Completing the Square

4. Quadratic Formula

______ _____

What Conic are you?

1. Parabola

2. Circle

3. Ellipse

4. Hyperbola

Find your partner

• Match a graph with an equation!

Closure

• Questions

Thanks for Coming

• Strongly recommend Kagan

• www.KaganOnline.com

Mix Pair Share #2

• Mix• Rally Robin

– Partners repeatedly take turns, answering orally• Question:

– “What is a word that that your friends would use to describe you?”

• Think Time• Share• Departing Message