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Explore a process for planning mathematics instruction in 3rd grade, focusing on developing multiplication and division fact fluency. Learn about essential understandings, resources, and assessments.
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Planning for CCSSM Instruction-Third Grade Presented by Dr. Linda K. Griffith May 6, 2013
Quotes • “Wise men say only fools rush in…” ~Elvis Presley • “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” ~Alexander Pope (essay in 1709) • “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts.” ~Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
Process vs. Product • The focus of today is to explore a process for planning mathematics instruction in first grade. • The products that will be shown are only examples to show what products might emerge from the process. • None of these products are complete and they have not been field tested.
Grain Size Phil Daro
Questions to Ponder as You View the Video • Why does mathematics not break down into lessons size pieces? • What is Daro proposing to replace common lesson planning? • What evidence is he using to support his position?
Discuss • Why does mathematics not break down into lessons size pieces? • What is Daro proposing to replace common lesson planning? • What evidence is he using to support his position?
Planning the Year • Focus and Coherence is not promoted by a checklist. • Focus and Coherence means you are working on many related standards simultaneously and may not “finish” a standard in a unit. • See page 3-4 of the CCSSM.
What is the focus for Grade 3? • Read to page 21 of the CCSSM. • Discuss the four focus areas for Grade 3. • What, if any, are the connections between these foci? • What have you done in the past that is simply not here now?
Need a 3-D Model Year Long Plan • Topics (across the top) • Time (down the side) • Units (shading) – require narrative descriptions
Discuss at Your Table • Refer to pages 22-26 of the CCSSM. • List the topic titles you would use across the top of the year long planning document.
Compare to Sample The topic names you will see on the sample are: • Properties of Operations • Multiplication and Division • Addition and Subtraction • Fractions • Place Value • Arrays and Area • Data • Non-Geometric Measure • Shapes and Their Attributes How do these compare with yours?
Keeping the Focus • What topic is pervasive in Grade 3? The Glue
Compare to Sample In the sample it appears that Properties of Operations are the glue for grade 3. • How does this compare with your group discussion?
Connections between Topics • Discuss the relationships between topics to help you think about units that cross topics. • Decisions that you make here may change as you move to the next phase in the process. • Shade in units to show the connections you are making, and number your units. • Does this validate your thinking about the “glue”?
Preparing to Plan a Unit • The group that prepared the sample organized Grade 3 into seven units. Review the descriptions of their first FOUR units on pages 1-3 of the Third Grade Sample Unit Outline. • Assuming students have had the experiences describing in Units 1-4, you will plan a unit to focus on developing multiplication and division fact fluency.
Unit or Chapter Planning: Step 1 • Begin with studying the “primary” resources related to developing fact fluency.
Eg: Focusing on Fact Fluency • CCSSM page 89 • pages 1-3 of CGI Number Facts Strategies Assessment • Excerpt pages 22-28 of the CCSS Progression for Counting and Cardinality and Operations and Algebraic Thinking K-5 • Developing Essential Understanding: Multiplication and Division pages 28-30 • Children’s Mathematics: CGI pages 42-43 • Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally, 6th Edition pages 183-185 (Effective Drill) • Cognition Based Assessment and Teaching of Multiplication and Division pages 9-10
Try It Out Study these resources in your group. • What are the similarities and differences in the information from these resources? • How did these materials impact your thinking about supporting the development of fact fluency in Grade 3? • What questions do you have after studying these resources?
The Big Question • Why is developing multiplication and division fact fluency important?
Can we apply what we learned? Write down several strategies for thinking about the multiplication fact 8 x 7. Be prepared to discuss the strategies.
Next Step What are the essential understandings related to developing multiplication and division fact fluency? OR What are the goals for the unit?
Summative Assessment • Discuss how you might summatively assess students’ multiplication and division fact fluency.
Compare • Will your assessment plan give you information about student fluency with multiplication and division facts?
Sample The sample defines Unit 6 as a focus on developing fact fluency. • How do the sample unit goals compare with those you discussed in your group?
Collecting Potential Problems and Tasks • As you study primary resources you begin to collect problems and tasks that you might use in day-to-day instruction. • Not every problem or task would be used by every teacher. • Some teachers may need additional problems or tasks. • A collaborative group might agree on the initial formative assessment task. • Secondary resources can be used as sources for problems and tasks.
Study and Discuss Examine the problems and tasks included in the sample unit. • How do these align with the unit goals? • How do these align with the primary resources? • How are these alike or different from materials you have used in the past? • What are the prerequisite skills the students would need to bring to the unit to be able to engage in these problems and tasks?
Discuss At Your Table • Can you give examples of things we have done in the past in third grade that were “answer getting strategies”? • What can we do instead?
The Purposeful Pedagogy and Discourse Instructional Model The Research tinyurl.com/AR-PPDM-article
The Foundation • Jacobs, Lamb, and Philipp on professional noticing and professional responding; • Smith, Stein, Hughes, and Engle on orchestrating productive mathematical discussions; • Ball, Hill, and Thames on types of teacher mathematical knowledge; and • Levi and Behrend (Teacher Development Group) on Purposeful Pedagogy Model for Cognitively Guided Instruction.
Day-to-Day Planning for Instruction • On-going formative assessment • Learning goals
Step 1 • Write or select a problem or task that has the potential to reveal some mathematics that will help reach the learning goal. • What is the mathematics this task or problem has the potential to reveal?
Step 2 • Anticipate what students will do that might be productive to share. • Remember there are productive failures.
Step 3 • Pose the problem and monitor students as they solve. • Teachers role during this process is called professional noticing. • Requires that they have the teacher specialized content knowledge.
Steps 4 and 5 • Select student work to share that would be productive. • Sequence the papers to share to help students make connections.
Step 6 • Compare and contrast strategies and make mathematical connections (Discourse).
8 Standards for Mathematical Practice • Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. • Reason abstractly and quantitatively. • Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. • Model with mathematics. • Use appropriate tools strategically. • Attend to precision. • Look for and make use of structure. • Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Formal Formative Assessment • Consider how to use the Number Facts Assessment as a periodic formal formative assessment.
What Others Have Done • New York • Georgia • Indiana • North Carolina