How can we make changes to the way we teach Math without adding stuff on teachers already heavy load and giving the impression of piling making more work?
Adding in 10 minute activities can effectively embed change.
"Delve into Maths"
What can we do to give all kids an opportunity to access the competencies and dispositions? Procedural Fluency - Times Tables etc (parents perceive as giftedness) This area is falling. Right side - Adequate Reasoning and Productive Disposition. Pepper the week with these activities.
If you can lock in conceptual understanding, then kids won't forget Procedural Fluency.
Adaptive reasoning is explaining thinking - top kids can't explain. Productive disposition is translating it to their language. There are 4 types of problems and raising awareness of these with teachers is where you get the bang for buck in accelerating learning.
If we want kids to accelerate in math we need to aim for the green - the open-ended and unfamiliar.
Every kid can problem solve.
Rapid routines can keep the other areas alive when they're not the strand being learned at the time, thus helping with retaining.
Thanks Mel for your post. I love teaching math and found it really interesting to go through the slides. Your comment about adaptive reasoning is so true, yesterday when I asked a very capable student to explain his reasoning he couldn't...eventually we got there with prompting. I also thought about how much oral language is used for the open ended questions and that is also an area to work on. I'm looking forward to hearing more.
ReplyDeleteKia ora Mel.
ReplyDeleteI am so pleased to see your post. Karina and I were looking for the problem that was shared when the activities were modelled in class.
It would be really cool if you could take our hub through a bit of this at our next team meeting.