Helpful Elementary Homework Resources for Parents

1. Helpful Elementary Homework Resources for Parents Nicora Placa January 15, 2014

2. Agenda • Introduction • Changes in the teaching of mathematics • Shifting Beliefs and Attitudes • Resources • Question and Answer

3. Overview of Changes

4. Our goal • Prepare our students so they are career and college ready

5. What does that mean in today’s world?

6. We need to change the way we prepare our children

8. Focus • Depth, Not Breadth • Focus deeply on major work of the grade: key ideas, understandings and skills • Stresses deep learning

9. Coherence • Across and within grades • Making Connections • Making Math Make Sense

10. Rigor • Rigor does not mean “hard problems.” • It’s a balance of • Fluency • Conceptual Understanding • Application. • There must be variety in what students are asked to produce.

12. How has rigor increased? • Examine the two assessment tasks in front of you. • How is the common core aligned task different than the previous type of assessment task? • What do students need to know to be able to solve the task?

13. Beliefs and Attitudes towards mathematics

14. What are your beliefs and attitudes towards math? • One Word • One Phrase • One Sentence

15. What does the research say? • Students’ attitudes and beliefs towards math MATTER! • Students who believe math is a series of disconnected rules and procedures often struggle compared with those who see underlying connections and meaning • Many students believe you are either good at math or you aren’t. They don’t believe they can change their achievement

16. Resources

17. Fluency

18. Fluency

19. Fact Family Cards

21. Mental math: Number Talks • The Number of the Day is 12, write all the facts you can that equal 12.

22. Many possible solutions

23. Mental math: Number Talks How many ways can you solve without pencil and paper? 312 + 498=?

24. Here’s one solution. Why does it work? 312+498(498 +2) + (312-2) 500+310=810

25. Mental math: Number Talks • Solve 14 x 6 without a pencil and paper. How many different ways can you solve it?

26. Number Sense

27. Number Sense • What is it? • Ability to use and understand numbers • Working flexibly with numbers • Estimating • Develop useful strategies

28. The Game 24

30. Guess my rule?

31. Wuzzit Trouble • App by Stanford math professor • Free the Wuzzit by figuring out the correct number of times to turn the gears

32. Estimation • http://www.estimation180.com • 180 days of estimation challenges • Students look at a picture, make an estimate and share what context clues they used • They can see how close their estimates are.

33. Go Math! Homework Help

34. Go Math! Help • http://www.hmhco.com/GoMathAcademy • Videos by grade and topic

35. Questions to guide students

36. Questions for when they are stuck • How would you describe the problem in your own words? • What do you know that is not stated in the problem? • What facts do you have? • What does the word ________ mean?

37. Questions for when they are stuck • Would it help to create a diagram? Make a table? Draw a picture? • Can you guess and check? • What do you already know that could help you figure that out?

38. Additional Websites • Khan Academy • http://www.khanacademy.org/ • Talking math with your kids • http://talkingmathwithkids.com/ • Bedtime math stories • http://bedtimemath.org/ • Learn zillion • http://learnzillion.com/ • You cubed • http://youcubed.org

39. Questions? • Comments? • Email: nicora.placa@gmail.com • Website: www.nicoraplaca.com