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Innovative Mathematics Teaching Project: Transforming Classroom Practices

Join the DPI Conference on April 7, 2015, for an overview of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh's partnership with local schools to enhance math teaching. Explore the project goals, summer workshops, academic year follow-ups, and content themes covered. Learn about problem-based inquiry, focus on children's thinking, Common Core connections, and content-focused coaching.

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Innovative Mathematics Teaching Project: Transforming Classroom Practices

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  1. DPI Conference April 7, 2015Eric KuennenUniversity of Wisconsin Oshkosh

  2. Project Overview • Partnership between UW Oshkosh, Medford, Abbotsford, Colby, Prentice, Rib Lake, Holy Rosary, and Immanuel Lutheran • 36 mathematics teachers in grades 4-8, and 5 Mathematics Education professors at UW Oshkosh • Two-week summer institute on mathematics and academic year projects with a focus on math teaching • Teacher participants receive $1500 cash stipend

  3. Project Goals: • Build a deep understanding of the Common Core Content and Practice Standards • Implement rich and engaging math problems in the classroom • Understand how students learn math content to diagnose and respond to students’ misconceptions • Collaborate between grade levels and explore a continuum of developing knowledge

  4. Summer Workshop • Sessions taught using a collaborative learning model. Small-group work will be followed by large-group discussion. • Three types of sessions on each mathematics topic: • Problem-Based Inquiry • Focus on Children’s Thinking • Connections to the Common Core.

  5. Problem-Based Inquiry (PBI). • Deepen understanding of specific content topics through problem solving. • Rich problems designed to spark and sustain conversation about, and exploration of, a specific piece of the school curriculum. • Analyzing solutions and methods, exploring representations, communicating, and making mathematical arguments.

  6. Focus on Children’s Thinking • Appraise children’s methods and discuss whether they are correct and generalizable • Analyze video clips of children thinking aloud as they solve • Discuss how to respond to common student questions and misconceptions

  7. Connections to the Common Core • Discuss the Practice Standards and identify when participants were engaged in each practice during PBI • Analyze lessons and activities and discuss underlying concepts and approach • Collaborate in grade bands to present ideas for how to teach specific content

  8. Academic Year Follow-up • Collaborate in vertical teams to develop and implement lessons • Collect and share data on student reasoning and misconceptions • Content-Focused Coaching: Math Faculty visit teacher’s classroom and act as a coach for math content and processes. • January half-day workshop

  9. Content Themes • Year 1: Numbers and Algebraic Thinking • Operations and Algebraic Thinking • Number and Operations in Base Ten • Number and Operations – Fractions • Number Systems • Expressions and Equations • Year 2: Geometry and Measurement • Geometry, Measurement and Data • Ratios and Proportional Relationships. • Year 3: Probability and Statistics • Probability and Statistics • Measurement and Data • Ratios and Proportional Relationships.

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