Math Minutes
High School: First Edition
Welcome!
The Math Department is excited to announce an additional resource to you this school year! Math Minutes will provide you with strategies to support teaching and learning in your classroom. We hope you find this resource valuable.
Making Connections to Real Life Applications
Students need to see the real life connection each day in order to understand the mathematics.
Teaching Tips: Student-Centered Instruction
Speed Dating
Click HERE to read a teacher's blog to see how she uses speed dating.
Tweak Your Worksheets
Find ways to break up worksheets or pages of problems and make them collaborative.
Accent Explaining
Have students draw an accent/character and describe a problem using that accent. They can video themselves and post it.
Strategies to Support Differentiation
Rather than lowering our expectations of students, we need to teach at the appropriate level or rigor and provide ways to scaffold the learning. Below are some suggestions.
Graphic Organizer
Provide the shell of a graphic organizer for students to fill in the information.
Vocabulary Card Sort
Provide a list of vocabulary cards. If additional support is needed, provide the cards and definitions on separate cards for the students to match.
Manipulatives
Provide objects students can manipulate to understand the mathematics.
Relevant and Rigorous Problem-Solving
Illustrative Mathematics
Find open-ended questions you can use on eClass or in your classroom.
Formative Assessment Approaches
There are 5 components of a Formative Assessment Lesson.
- Pre-Assessment to group the students in homogeneous pairs
- Mini-Lesson
- Collaborative Activity where you are asking guiding questions
- Summary to link the learning
- Post-Assessment looking for growth but not taken for a grade
Don' Forget!
- Each month the MOCC will add a new formative assessment strategy and eCLASS Technology Tool of the Month - be sure to check it out each month!
- Looking for more information on Formative Assessment Lessons? The MOCC contains a list of all available FALs, sorted by AKS and unit!
Questions or Comments?
Contact Lesley Grimes at