This routine from Daily Routines to Jump-Start Math Class, Elementary, helps students develop a more robust understanding of—and flexible thinking about—numbers and their relationships, which positions them for greater success when working with numbers.
This routine from Daily Routines to Jump-Start Math Class, Elementary, helps students determine the reasonability of their answers and determine efficient methods for estimating.
In this session led by John SanGiovanni, author of Daily Routines to Jump-Start Math Class, Middle School, participants learn about dynamic, practical routines for developing number sense and fluency with whole numbers, fractions, decimals, ratio, and operations.
In this session led by John SanGiovanni, author of Daily Routines to Jump-Start Math Class, Elementary, participants learn about dynamic, practical routines for developing number sense and fluency with whole numbers, fractions, decimals, ratio, and operations.
"Debriefing is a daily exercise in most professions: business, politics, law enforcement, psychology, healthcare, law, etc. It is often seen as integral to the profession as members reflect on their learning experiences, track their progress, and name their understandings. In truth, debriefing is accepted as an everyday necessity in order for the professional to advance in his/her practice."
Read more from Margie Pearse, author of Teaching Numeracy, on Corwin Connect.
Learn hands-on strategies for teaching geometry, measurement, and data excerpted from Planting the Seeds of Algebra 3-5. (Elementary)
Using Audrey & Bruce Wood's book Ten Little Fish, students learn to count backward from 10 by 1s, a precursor for subtraction. This lesson appears in Numbers & Stories. (Elementary)
This excerpt from The Five Practices in Practice helps you assess student thinking in ways that take them from where they are now and move them towards the lesson goals.
This excerpt from The Five Practices in Practice demonstrates strategies to anticipate student responses in problem solving, including planning to respond to students using assessing and advancing questions, and preparing to notice key aspects of students’ thinking in the midst of instruction.
This practice activity from The Five Practices in Practice, Elementary, by Margaret “Peg” Smith, Victoria Bill, and Miriam Gamoran Sherin involves thinking about different ways students might solve the task, planning to respond to students using assessing and advancing questions, and preparing to notice key aspects of students’ thinking in the midst of instruction.
This Hinge Question Implementation Tool from The Formative 5 helps you to organize your thoughts around a single hinge question in order to better assess your students' progress and define next steps for their continued learning.
Use this observation checklist from The Formative 5 to organize your observations of your students' progress in the classroom related to a specific task.