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Teaching and Learning Elementary Math

Teaching and Learning Elementary Math. November 27, 2012 10:30 am – 12:30 pm. School Visits: Math Needs Inventory. We have Teaching and Learning Meetings once a month to focus on Elementary Math Curriculum. Where would you like for us to focus our time?

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Teaching and Learning Elementary Math

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  1. Teaching and LearningElementary Math November 27, 2012 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

  2. School Visits: Math Needs Inventory We have Teaching and Learning Meetings once a month to focus on Elementary Math Curriculum. • Where would you like for us to focus our time? • What concepts would be most beneficial for us to concentrate on in order to improve your role as a leader of math in your building?

  3. School Visits: Math Needs Inventory Feedback from YOU:

  4. Today’s Agenda • Scholastic Math Inventory + Quantiles • Next Steps – Looking Ahead to 2013 • Balanced Math Framework • An Overview • Daily Math Review Update • Implementation Study • Next Steps… 3. The Role of the Instructional Coach

  5. Virtual Parking Lot TodaysMeet: http://todaysmeet.com/elementarymath Questions, Comments, Ideas, etc…

  6. ScHOLASTIC MATH INVENTORY: QUANTILES

  7. Next steps: Looking ahead to 2013

  8. balanced math framework:Overview + Update

  9. Balanced Math Framework Overview DAILY MATH REVIEW MENTAL MATH PROBLEM SOLVING CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING FACT FLUENCY FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

  10. Balanced Math Framework Overview Ask Yourself...… Before Daily Math Review, in what ways were teachers at your school helping students to retain math concepts and skills they have already been taught? DAILY MATH REVIEW • Daily Math Review: • Number Sense = Success with Computational Skills • Key to Effective Practice is Timely + Specific • Daily Reflection Increases Responsibility for Learning • Student Awareness of Misunderstandings More info? Pgs. 3 - 22

  11. Balanced Math Framework Overview Ask Yourself...… How are your teachers providing students daily mental practice with number sense? How are teachers providing students opportunities to develop their own strategies for doing math problems in their head? MENTAL MATH • Mental Math: • Three-problem computational brain workout (5 min) • Mental Practice – Computing math facts + Combining operations. • Daily practice to develop + retain number sense and computational skills More info? Pgs. 23 - 28

  12. Balanced Math Framework Overview PROBLEM SOLVING with be a Professional Development Focus in the 2013-14 School Year. Ask Yourself...… How are your teachers providing opportunities for students to apply and explain their mathematical reasoning? How are teachers including writing into the math block? PROBLEM SOLVING • Problem solving: • Organize and consolidate mathematical thinking through communication. • Analyze and evaluate the mathematical thinking of strategies. • Use language of mathematics to express mathematical ideas precisely. More info? Pgs. 29 - 69

  13. Balanced Math Framework Overview Consider...… If we want students to know what mathematics is, as a subject, they must understand it. When we memorize rules for moving symbols around on a paper we may be learning something, but we are not learning mathematics. CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING

  14. Balanced Math Framework Overview DESIGNING A CONCEPTUAL UNIT: Establish a mathematical focus for the unit. Locate the grade-specific math standards. “Unwrap” those identified standards. Determine the essential mathematical concepts. Decide on the Big Ideas. Write the Essential Questions. Design an end-of-unit post-assessment. Create a rubric or scoring guide. Design a pre-assessment. Plan the instructional lessons. Share the Essential Questions. Administer the pre-assessments. Score the pre-assessments. Begin teaching the unit. Assess student understanding. Share with students. Peer-, Self and Teacher-assess Ask the students to write a self-reflection. CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING More info? Pgs. 71 - 96

  15. Balanced Math Framework Overview FACT FLUENCY with be a Professional Development Focus in the 2013-14 School Year. Ask Yourself...… Do your teachers have an accountability system in place so that students not only learn, but retain their math facts? FACT FLUENCY • Mastery of Math Facts: • Teach and Practice Math Facts Daily. • Title I Schools: Fastt Math Program • Non-Title Schools: xtramath.com • All Schools: Mastering Basic Math Facts Book – Full of Activities and Lessons More info? Pgs. 97 - 112

  16. Balanced Math Framework Overview Ask Yourself...… How frequently are teachers collecting student data from math assessments and how are they using this data to improve student achievement? FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT • Common Formative Assessment: • Collaboratively designed by grade level team. • Use results to evaluate student understanding. • Provide feedback needed to differentiate instruction. • Assessment truly informs instruction. More info? Pgs. 113 - 128

  17. Balanced Math Framework Overview Time Management How do you fit it all in? Remember – start small – one step at a time! Step 1: Daily Math Review (15 – 20 Minutes) Step 2: Mental Math (2 – 5 Minutes or Transition Time) Step 3: Fact Fluency (10 – 15 Minutes) Step 4: Conceptual Understanding and/or Problem Solving (Remaining class time – Whole group and/or small group) SAMPLE SCHEDULES PGS. 179 - 183

  18. Balanced Math Framework Overview TodaysMeet: Ideas, concerns and questions about the Balanced Math Framework. • Where are the teachers in your school at with the components of the framework? • What supports do you need?

  19. Daily Math Review Update Elementary Math District PLC Meeting

  20. Daily Math Review Update Key Statement Expectation • Teachers will have the students write the key statements at least twice in a cycle. • Teachers will reference the key statement daily (posting, circling, reciting, telling a partner, etc…

  21. Daily Math Review Update Key Statements are now available on the Elementary Math Website! http://elementarymath.dmschools.org/index.html Daily Math Review Tab

  22. Daily Math Review Next Steps

  23. Daily Math Review Update Implementation Study http://elementarymath.dmschools.org/index.html

  24. Daily Math Review Update Next Steps… Implementation Study: Observe all grade 3 – 5 teachers by January 4th, 2013. Assess teacher needs based on the Implementation Study – Plan last PLC meeting (January 9th) around teacher needs. Mental Math – January 9th Kindergarten – 2nd Grade Daily Math Review

  25. the role of the instructional coach:Action planning

  26. The Role of the Instructional Math Coach

  27. The Role of the Instructional Math Coach Literacy Coach by Day – Math Coach by Night Showcase: Jamie O’Brien – Madison Elementary

  28. The Role of the Instructional Math Coach Meeting of the Math Minds: You are Invited! First Math Coach Meeting When: Wednesday, January 23rd from 2:30 – 3:45pm Where: Location TBD Who: All leaders of math are welcome! What: Discussion of strategies for upcoming units, problem solving, fellowship This meeting is optional.

  29. The Role of the Instructional Math Coach Math coach mentors Each math coach will be partnered with another coach in the district to bounce ideas off of and ask questions! Please sign up before leaving today.

  30. The Role of the Instructional Math Coach

  31. Feedback

  32. Let’s Eat!

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