engaging students in learning mathematics kindergarten session 2 pam hutchison october 22, 2015
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Engaging Students in Learning Mathematics
KindergartenSession 2
Pam HutchisonOctober 22, 2015
AGENDA• Guiding Principles for Teaching Math• 8 Math Teaching Practices• Mindset and Mistakes• Review of Daily Math• Math in Focus
Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All
Assessment
Principles to Actions
Curriculum
Teaching and Learning
Access and Equity Professionalism
Tools and Technology
Effective Teaching and
Learning
Time and time again, research has shown that an effective teacher is the strongest in-school predictor of student achievement.
6 times the impact of all other factors combined
Mathematics Teaching Practices
• … the profession need to identify “practices at the heart of the work of teaching that are most likely to affect student learning”
• NCTM released “Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All”
8 Mathematics Teaching Practices
Mathematical Teaching Practices1. Establish mathematics goals to focus
learning. 2. Implement tasks that promote reasoning
and problem solving.3. Use and connect mathematical
representations.4. Facilitate meaningful mathematical
discourse.
Mathematical Teaching Practices5. Pose purposeful questions. 6. Build procedural fluency from conceptual
understanding. 7. Support productive struggle in learning
mathematics. 8. Elicit and use evidence of student
thinking.
MTP’s• Take a few minutes to read over the
descriptions• At your tables discuss,
– How do these practices relate to the SMP and the content standards?
– Which ones do you believe are prevalent at your site?
– What would be your next steps?
Standards for Mathematical Practice1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning
of others
4. Model with mathematics
5. Use appropriate tools strategically
6. Attend to precision
7. Look for and make use of structure
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning
Connections to SMP’s1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them (2,
3, 7)
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively (2, 3, 4, 5)
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of
others (2, 4, 5)
4. Model with mathematics (2, 4, 5)
5. Use appropriate tools strategically (2, 4)
6. Attend to precision (4)
7. Look for and make use of structure (2, 6)
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning (2, 6)
Mindset
Growth Mindset• A belief system that suggests that one’s
intelligence can be grown or developed with persistence, effort, and a focus on learning
Fixed Mindset• A belief system that suggests that a
person has a predetermined amount of intelligence, skills, or talents
Mistakes and Learning
Michael Jordan1997 Nike commercial• “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my
career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot…. and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Pete AthansFailures provide information to help us do things differently next time. • “I learned how not to climb the first four
times I tried to summit Everest,” says alpinist Pete Athans, who’s reached the world’s highest peak seven times. “Failure gives you a chance to refine your approach. You’re taking risks more and more intelligently.”
Mindset for Growth• http://mindsetforgrowth.com/
– Growth Mindset: Failure is the most essential step to success
– Famous Failures
Inventions Created by Mistake• We tend to hold inventors in high esteem,
but often their discoveries were the result of an accident or twist of fate. This is true of many everyday items, including the following surprise inventions.
Inventions Created by Mistake1. Penicillin2. The Slinky3. Wheaties4. Post-It Notes5. The Color Mauve6. Plastics7. Saccharin8. Corn Flakes9. Pacemaker
Feedback and Re-Do’s• Keep expectations high and let students
know when they have not met those expectations, then tell them what they need to do to improve.
• Give them time to re-do the work and offer support in the process.
Feedback and Re-Do’s• Circle errors on papers.• Let students know that this means “Look at
this again.”• Provide feedback in writing or in person.
(An X on a paper teaches nothing.)• Allow re-do’s
Feedback and Re-Do’s• Feedback and re-do’s can be an extremely
valuable part of the learning process• We need to allow peer edits and revisions in
math, the same as we do in writing• But it is only valuable if there is something
in place that that will help them learn from their mistakes
A Daily Math Program
Subitizing
Subitizing
Subitizing
Making Tens
Making Tens
Number of the DayNumber of the Day of School• Counting• Counting back• Place Value
– Straws– Ten Frames Chart– Hundred’s Chart (optional)
• Number Bonds
Number of the Day• Today is the 54th day of school
– Let’s count to 54 starting at 42.– Let’s count the number of straws we have so far.
• Groups of 10 – 10, 20, 30, 40, 50• Count on one’s - 51, 52, 53, 54• Add 1 more straw
– Let’s count the number of straws we have now.• Groups of 10 – 10, 20, 30, 40, 50• Count on one’s - 51, 52, 53, 54, 55
– So what is one more than 54?
Number of the DayNumber of the Day on the Calendar • Today is October 22nd
– Let’s count to 22– How many groups of 10 will we need to make
22?– Let’s count – 10, 20– Now how many more?– Let’s count – 21, 22
Random Number of the Day• The number of the day is:
Write “5” or Say “five”– Who can read (or write) the number?– Let’s count to 5– Which of these show 5
Random Number of the Day• The number of the day is: 5
– Let’s count out 5 monkeys.– How many monkey’s did we count?– What’s one more than 5? One less than 5?– What’s two more than 5? Two less than 5?– Number Bonds for 5
Number Bonds – 5
5 5
5 5 5
5
Daily Math, continuedPatterns• Predict the next element in the pattern (shape,
location, etc.)• Identifying the repeating part
Daily Math, continuedWord Problems • All four operations ( +, -, x, ÷)• Start with 4 types of addition/subtraction
problems and basic multiplication/division problems
• Children do not have to have “mastery” with number used on word problems
Add To – Result Unknown• There are three children playing at the park.
Two more children come to the park. How many children are in the park now?
Taken From – Result Unknown• Renee has five toy bears. She loses one at
the park. How many bears does Renee have now?
Put Together/Take Apart – Total Unknown
• In the park, 1 child is at the slide and 2 children are at the swings. How many children are in the park?
Put Together/Take Apart – Both Addends Unknown
• There are 5 children in the park. They are at either the slide or the swings. How many are at the slides and how many are at the swings?
Multiplication• There are 3 beds. Each bed has 2 bears on
it. How many bears are there?
Group Size Unknown• Renee has 6 stuffed bears. She places them
so that there are the same number of bears on each of her two beds. How many bears are on each bed?
Number of Groups Unknown• Renee has 6 stuffed bears. She wants to put
2 bears on each pillow. How many pillows does she need?
Daily Math, continuedGeometry • Plane Shapes: Squares, Circles, Triangles,
Rectangles, Hexagons• Solids: Cubes, Cones, Cylinders, Spheres• Name shape regardless of size or orientation
Daily Math, continuedGraphs and Data• At least once a month – related to things about
the kids• Graphs represent real people and real data• Ask a wide variety of questions related to the
graph
Math in Focus