2019 - 2020 Session #1

FOCUS: TASK ANALYSIS TO DRIVE INSTRUCTION.

PROCESS:

Selection: A task is selected per grade level. CKingEducation will select the tasks initially with the intention that we grow towards teacher selection of purposeful, rich tasks. 

  1. Implementation: Students and teachers are given the task to resolve. The task should not take more than 10 minutes for students to complete.

  2. Analysis: Teachers, with guidance from a facilitator, analyze each students’ work sample.  Teachers will be taught how to unpack what the student work means by naming math models, strategies and vocabulary used.

  3. Support: Based on the trends noted teachers, with the guidance of a facilitator, outline 1 to 3 measurable ways to address the identified areas of challenge.  Teachers also identify 1 pedagogical or content knowledge area that they need to gain a deeper understanding of.

  4. Assess: Teachers periodically (6 weeks, 3 months - 6 months) assess growth in targeted areas to determine if the measurable ways to address are working and if knowledge is being retained by students in the short and long-term

TASKS:

BUILDING FLUENCY

  • Subitizing: What is it? Why Teach It? by Douglas Clements

  • Dots 1 - 10: This collection shows dots that are in various configurations. Slide #2 shows a year-long progress based on the models from Number Talks by Sherri Parrish, pg. 71 - 81

  • Number Rack (Rekenrek): This collection shows dots on the Rekenrek and helps to develop and apply the Distributive Property of Multiplication over Addition.

  • Unit Chat: A type of Number Talk that supports precise language and multiplicative thinking.

Additional Resources

Division (Various Methods from Schultz Center):

Dividing Decimals: 2.4/0.6 (Student video)

Kyle Pearce - Counting Principles:

  1. Cardinality

  2. One-to-One Correspondence

  3. Conservation

  4. Stable Order

  5. Abstraction

  6. Order Irrelevance

  7. Subitizing

  8. Hierarchical Inclusion

  9. Movement is Magnitude

  10. Unitizing

Tiny Polka Dot Game - Learn to Play Videos

K - 5 Teaching Resources:

Multiplication In Many Ways - Lite Version

Christine King