Session #4

Focus: In all schools we focused on deepening teacher content knowledge with fractions.

With Teachers: Delving Deeper into Fractions

Grade 3: Comparison, Equivalence, Placement on a Number Line, In Sets

Grade 4: Decimal Fractions, Comparison, Equivalence, Addition and Subtraction with Regrouping

Grade 5: Add/Sub with fractions with unlike denominators and regrouping relating to whole numbers, Mul/Div for conceptual understanding

Slide Deck

With Students: 

Grade 3: Rally Coach Factions on a Number Line

Grade 4: Rally Coach Addition and Subtraction with Regrouping

Grade 5: What is the operation and why? Acting it Out with manipulatives or math models

Handouts

Tasks from illustrative Mathematics:

• To Multiply or Not to Multiply, Variation 2

• To Multiply or Not to Multiply

Next Steps

Webber: Have teachers use the lesson structures as modeled. Provide time for teachers to plan out lessons together with Math Coach and vertically.

Bradley: Have teachers use the lesson structures as modeled. Provide additional training on the use and mindset associated building conceptual understanding with math tools and models.

J.P. Thomas: Have teachers use the lesson structures as modeled. Provide time for teachers to do intervitiations vertically.

E..E. Taylor: Have teachers use the lesson structures as modeled. Provide additional training on the use and mindset associated building conceptual understanding with math tools and models.