SS2 Parallelograms

 Grade 7 SS2 to activate for parallelograms:

Grade 4 Foundational Outcome Lesson Ideas

 Coming Soon!

Number Talk Posters

 Check out these fabulous posters for adding and subtracting strategies for grades 3-8. 

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/sa/public/fishertonpsandeyc/uploads/sites/8415/2016/12/NumberTalksStrategiesPostersGrades3to5.pdf

Ideas for Collaboration/Problem Solving and Alternatives to Traditional Paper Pencil Activities

 Building 21st Century Skills

   See previous posts on Building Thinking Classrooms - Peter Liljedahl and Number talk activities.

Alternatives to Traditional Paper Pencil  Activities

1. Self-checking task cards, placed around the room. Students can start anywhere, solve, and then look for the answer on top of another task card. Pros - students are moving, teachers can provide assistance, students know immediately if they make an error and work on finding their mistake. Search for looping cards.

2. Partner whiteboard work - both partners solve the question on their whiteboard and then compare their work and answers.

3. Technology - lumio lessons, desmos activities, Geogebra and quiz-type games(Kahoot, Blooket, Gimkit, Quizizz)

4. Puzzles and games. Ideas Tarsia puzzles, matching puzzles, card type games

More to come.....

Video Lessons

 Number Rocks - math videos 

Grades K-8!

https://numberock.com/video-library/

Math Antics - check out some sample videos on YouTube.

Math Antics

Number Talks

Number talks are one of those things that I think every math teacher should be doing from K-12. In short number talks are a  a 5-10 minute daily routine that focuses on student talk. Teachers provide thoughtful chosen questions based on strategies or topics being taught and then students share the ways they solve them. There are a couple of awesome resources available for teachers to use when thinking of starting the number talk routine in their classroom.

There are also a variety of videos on youtube that show how a number talk works and how it looks in a variety of classrooms. Here is one example below:

Some valuable information I have found is that you need to set up a safe classroom climate in your classroom and ensure students feel that accepting safety so they will share the variety of their ideas. You also need to do them everyday and you see improvement in number sense and their mental math abilities. I suggest to teachers to do 4-5 days of number talks and then ask students to share in writing rather than out loud so you can assess what students are doing for mental math strategies. You can use whiteboards or as an exit slip.

Here is another youtube video from the author Sherry Parrish - it's just over an hour but I think very powerful!

Good Luck with your number talks - please feel free to comment below with your successes, questions or comments.

Check out this blog post from Anthony at Mashup Math 

http://mashupmath.com/blog/2017/10/24/looking-for-number-talk-strategies-we-got-you

Numeracy Routine

 Who is the spy?

https://games.thinksquare.com.au/tools/spy/daily

Check back to the website for daily puzzle to get your students talking and using math vocabulary.