December: Problem Solving
2016 Persevere in Solving Problems
Building Mathematical Thinkers
How you can be good at math, and other surprising facts about learning | Jo Boaler | TEDxStanford
WHY/HOW/WHAT Goals for 2017 Building Mathematical Thinkers Webinars: To ensure that our teachers...
- Have knowledge, strategies and resources & connect all of these resources to the needs of students
- Actively participate through questioning, contributing, and implementing new ideas
- Understand and build their practice using "Teacher Behaviors that Matter" for teaching Mathematics
Goals for Today's session:
"Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them" is the first of 8 Mathematical Practices. Today we share how all elements of our Core Four come alive through providing students the opportunity to struggle through challenging problem solving tasks.
The Core Four and Problem Solving:
Why is it so hard to change how we teach mathematics?
"The narrative around the changes necessary is often just too different than people’s personal experiences of learning mathematics."
Student Pledge:
CUBES
Acronym for steps to problem solving
Thinking Through Problem Solving
Supporting metacognition
Intermediate grades
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