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Update on Math Initiatives. Principals’ Meeting October 24, 2013. PSAT 2012-13 SOAS Report. Note: Data only includes Sophomores taking the test. College and Career Readiness Benchmarks. Score Distribution - Mathematics. 44. 49% 56% 30% 40% 58%.
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Update on Math Initiatives Principals’ Meeting October 24, 2013
PSAT 2012-13 SOAS Report • Note: Data only includes Sophomores taking the test
49% 56% 30% 40% 58%
WHAT DOES RESEARCH SAY ABOUTHOW MATHEMATICS INSTRUCTIONSHOULD BE CONDUCTED? A variety of instructional methods should be used in classrooms to cultivate students’ abilities to investigate, make sense of, and construct meanings from new situations; to make and provide arguments for conjectures; and to use a flexible set of strategies to solve problems from both within and outside mathematics. In addition to traditional teacher demonstrations and teacher-led discussions, greater opportunities should be provided for small-group work, individual explorations, peer instruction, and whole-class discussions in which the teacher serves as a moderator. (NCTM, 1989, pp. 125, 128)
To sum it up . . . Teachers need to support students in engaging in Mathematical Discourse.
Let’s Review . . . (Common Core Math Summer Training 2013) Keys to Mathematical Discourse
The Keys to Mathematical Discourse • Authentic, Rich Tasks • Level of Questioning
How can we improve our questioning? • Develop and/or select deeper, richermathematical problems to give to students • Increase the level of questions that we ask students • Change the type of questions that we ask students So that we can increase Reasoning and Connections skills!
Question Analysis • Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy • Question Analysis Activity
A Challenge: • How can we team within the department to be more intentional about creating discourse?
Shifting Our Perspective When students don’t seem to understand something, my instinct is to consider how I can explain more clearly.A better way is to think “They can figure this out. I just need the right question.”- D. Kennedy (2002) Never say anything a kid can say.- Reinhart (2000)