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Middle School Performance Tasks and Student Thinking for Mathematics. CFN 609 Professional Development | March 29, 2012 RONALD SCHWARZ Math Specialist, America’s Choice,| Pearson School Achievement Services. Got change?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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CFN 609Professional Development | March 29, 2012
RONALD SCHWARZMath Specialist, America’s Choice,| Pearson School Achievement Services
Middle SchoolPerformance Tasks andStudent Thinking for Mathematics
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Got change?Try to figure out
a way to make change for a dollar that uses exactly 50 coins. Is there more than one way?
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Performance Tasks and Student Thinking
AGENDA• Reflection• Progressions• Properties• Misconceptions• Tasks• Looking at Student Work
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Practice and Experience
Have you tried out any of the strategies, tasks or ideas from our previous sessions, and if so, what were the results?
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Reflection and Review
What are one or two ways that US math instruction differs from that in higher-performing countries?
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Reflection and Review
Describe and list some of the Standards for Math Practice.
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Standards for Mathematical Practice
1 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.
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Expertise and Character
Development of expertise from novice to apprentice to expert
The Content of their mathematical Character
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Reflection and Review
How are levels of cognitive demand used in looking at math tasks?
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Levels of Cognitive DemandLower-level• Memorization• Procedures without
connectionsHigher-level• Procedures with connections• Doing mathematics
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Reflection and Review
What do we mean by formative assessment and what are some strategies involved in it?
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Some Habits of Mind
• Visualization, including drawing a diagram
• Explanation, using their own words
• Reflection and metacognition• Consideration of strategies
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A train one mile long travels at a rate of one mile per minute through a tunnel that is one mile long. How long will it take the train to pass completely through the tunnel?
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Some More Habits of Mind
• Listening to each other• Recognizing and extending
patterns• Ability to generalize• Using logic• Mental math and shortcuts
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Two JarsYou have a 3-liter jar and a
5-liter jar. Neither of them have any markings and you do not have any extra jars. You can easily measure out exactly 3, 5 and 8 liters. Is it possible to measure out exactly 1 liter? If so, how? What about 4 liters? 6 liters? 7 liters?
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Getting Comfortable with
Non-Routine Problems
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TreeA tree doubled in
height each year until it reached its maximum height in 20 years. How many years did it take this tree to reach half its maximum height?
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Pleasure in Problem-Solving
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Some Strategies for Approaching a Task
• Make an organized list• Work backward• Look for a pattern• Make a diagram• Make a table• Use trial-and-error• Consider a related but simpler
problem
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Express this sum as a simple fraction in lowest terms:
1_ + 1_ + 1_ + 1_ + 1_ + 1_ 1×2 2×3 3×4 4×5 5×6 6×7
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And Some More Strategies
• Consider extreme cases• Adopt a different point of view• Estimate• Look for hidden assumptions• Carry out a simulation
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Tennis TournamentA tennis tournament has
50 contestants, with these rules: no tie games and the loser of each game is eliminated, the winner goes on to play in the next round. How many games are needed to determine a champion?
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The most important ideas in the CCSS mathematics that need attention
Properties of operations: their role in arithmetic and algebra
Mental math and (algebra vs. algorithms)Units and unitizingOperations and the problems they solveQuantities-variables-functions-modelingNumber-Operations-Expressions-EquationsModelingPractice Standards
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Progression: quantities and measurement to variables and functions
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Fractions ProgressionUnderstanding the arithmetic of
fractions draws upon four prior progressions that inform the CCSS:
• Equal partitioning• Unitizing• Number line and• Operations
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Unitizing links fractions to whole number arithmetic• Students’ expertise in whole number
arithmetic is the most reliable expertise they have in mathematics
• It make sense to students• If we can connect difficult topics like
fractions and algebraic expressions to whole number arithmetic, these difficult topics can have a solid foundation for students
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Nine properties are the most important preparation for algebra
Just nine: foundation for arithmeticExact same properties work for whole
numbers, fractions, negative numbers, rational numbers, letters, expressions.
Same properties in 3rd grade and in calculus
Not just learning them, but learning to use them
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Using the properties
• To express yourself mathematically (formulate mathematical expressions that mean what you want them to mean)
• To change the form of an expression so it is easier to make sense of it
• To solve problems• To justify and prove
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Properties are like rules, but also like rights
• You are allowed to use them whenever you want, it’s never wrong.
• You are allowed to use them in any order
• Use them with a mathematical purpose
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Linking multiplication and addition: the ninth property
Distributive property of multiplication over addition
a × (b+c) = (a×b) + (a×c)
a(b+c) = ab + ac
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Find the properties in the multiplication tableThere are many patterns in the
multiplication table, most of them are consequences of the properties of operations:
Find patterns and explain how they come from the properties
Find the distributive property patterns
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What is an explanation?
Why you think it’s true and why you think it makes sense.
Saying “distributive property isn’t enough, you have to show how the distributive property applies to the problem.
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Mental Math
72-29= ?In your headComposing and decomposingPartial productsPlace value in base 10Factor x2 +4x + 4 in your head
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Math Tasks
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BananasIf three bananas are worth two oranges, how many oranges are 24 bananas worth?
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NYSED Algebra Sample Tasks
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Misconceptions
How they arise and how to deal with them
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Misconceptions about misconceptions
• They weren’t listening when they were told
• They have been getting these kinds of problems wrong from day one
• They forgot• Their previous teachers didn’t
know the math
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More misconceptions about the cause of misconceptions
• In the old days, students didn’t make these mistakes
• They were taught procedures• They weren’t taught the right
procedures• Not enough practice
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Maybe• Teachers’ misconceptions
perpetuated to another generation (where did the teachers get the misconceptions? How far back does this go?)
• Mile-wide inch-deep curriculum causes haste and waste
• Some concepts are hard to learn
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Whatever the Cause
• When students reach your class they are not blank slates
• They are full of knowledge• Their knowledge will be flawed and
faulty, half baked and immature; but to them it is knowledge
• This prior knowledge is an asset and an interference to new learning
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Dividing Fractions
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Dividing Fractions
“Ours is not to question why,just invert and multiply.”
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Dividing Fractions
WHY?49
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Hose A takes 30 minutes to fill a tub with water.
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Hose A takes 30 minutes to fill a tub with water.
What fraction of an hour is that? How many tubs could hose A fill in one hour?
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Suppose another hose could fill a tub in twenty minutes. What fraction of an hour is that? How many tubs could that hose fill in one hour?
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A third hose takes forty minutes to fill a tub. What fraction of an hour is that? How many tubs could the third hose fill in one hour?
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What is the connection between the amount of time it takes for a hose to fill a tub, and the number of tubs it can fill in one hour?
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Time Number of tubs(fraction of filled in 1 hour hour)
x = 1
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The relationship between the time it takes for a hose to fill a tub, and the number of tubs that can be filled in one hour is called a reciprocal relationship. Each is also called the multiplicative inverse of the other.
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Compare the relationship between a number and its multiplicative inverse with the relationship between a number and its additive inverse. What is similar?
A: 30 Minutes B: 45 Minutes
Hose A takes 30 minutes to fill a tub with water. Hose B can do the same in 45 minutes. If you use both hoses, how long will it take to fill a tub?
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Stubborn Misconceptions
• Misconceptions are often prior knowledge applied where it does not work
• To the student, it is not a misconception, it is a concept they learned correctly…
• They don’t know why they are getting the wrong answer
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Second grade
When you add or subtract, line the numbers up on the right, like this:
23+9
Not like this 23+9
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Third Grade3.24 + 2.1 = ?If you “Line the numbers up on the right “
like you spent all last year learning, you get this:
3.2 4+ 2.1
You get the wrong answer doing what you learned last year. You don’t know why.
Teach: line up decimal point. Continue developing place value concepts
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Frequently, a ‘misconception’ is not wrong thinking but is a concept in embryo or a local generalization that the pupil has made. It may in fact be a natural stage of development.
Malcolm Swan
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Multiplying makes a number bigger.
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Percents can’t be greater than 100%.
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Graphs are pictures.
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To multiply by ten, put a zero at the end of the number.
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Numbers with more digits are bigger.
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x means the number that you have to find.
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Numbers with more digits are bigger.
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Teach from misconceptions
• Most common misconceptions consist of applying a correctly-learned procedure to an inappropriate situation.
• Lessons are designed to surface and deal with the most common misconceptions
• Create ‘cognitive conflict’ to help students revise misconceptions– Misconceptions interfere with initial teaching
and that’s why repeated initial teaching doesn’t work
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Diagnostic Teaching
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Key features of the a well-designed intervention
Lean and clean lessons that are simple and focused on the math to be learned
Rituals and routines that maximize student interaction with the mathematics
Emphasis on students, student work, and student discourse
Teaches and motivates how to be a good math student
Assessment that is ongoing and instrumental in promoting student learning
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Without measuring anything, put these staircases in order of steepness.
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Malcolm Swan example
• Goldilocks problems that lead to concepts through work on misconceptions (faulty prior knowledge)
• Discussion craftily scaffolded • Instructional assessment on all cycles,
especially within lesson• Tasks easy as possible to engage as
activities that also hook straightaway to questions that lead to concept
• “encouraged uncertainties” at the door of insights
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Odd One Out
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Odd One Out
a) 20, 14, 8, 2…b) 3, 7, 11, 15…c) 4, 8, 16, 32…
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Social and meta-cognitive skills have to be taught by design
• Beliefs about one’s own mathematical intelligence– “good at math” vs. learning makes me smarter
• Meta-cognitive engagement modeled and prompted– Does this make sense?– What did I do wrong?
• Social skills: learning how to help and be helped with math work => basic skill for algebra: do homework together, study for test together
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Diagnostic Teaching Goal is to surface and make students aware of their misconceptionsBegin with a problem or activity that surfaces the various ways students may think about the math.Engage in reflective discussion (challenging for teachers but research shows that it develops long-term learning)
Reference: Bell, A. Principles for the Design of Teaching Educational Studies in Mathematics. 24: 5-34, 1993
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Math Tasks
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Sources ofNon-Routine
Problems
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Sources ofNon-Routine
Problems
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Math Olympiad for Elementary and Middle School
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Looking at Student Work
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Patchwork Quilt
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