Fun with Fact Fluency
Developing Mental Math Strategies with Operations
Our Journey
As part of our Inquiry we were looking to see if we could provide innovative ways practicing and improving operations so that students would develop more flexible thinking. The strategies we used to target the students were math games, and Number Talks. We used the Lesson Study Model to build capacity among our teachers around developing more flexible thinking with operational sense. Through an Interactive Family Math Night we promoted strategies students use for building fact fluency.
Visit TeachOntario for more on our journey. https://www.teachontario.ca/people/quintanam/blog/2015/04/17/st-Julia
https://www.teachontario.ca/blogs/cardosod/2015/03/20/st-julia-tllp-our-second-blog
Pre-Assessment
Number Talks
Number Talk - Subtraction
In today's number talk we began to look at subtraction. I started with getting an idea of students know about subtraction. They were able to come up with what subtraction is and use a variety of words to describe it. They referred to subtraction as being part of the fact family.
Kids were able to see the relationship between addition and subtraction and use that to help them solve a subtraction problem.
Number Talk - Subtraction
Doubles Activity
Number Talk using doubles
Number Talk using doubles
Making 10 Activity
Number Talk - Making Ten
Number Talk - Making 10
Lesson Study
A large part of our TLLP Inquiry was capacity building with teachers around fact fluency. We decided to use Lesson Study as are model for professional learning. We grouped teachers by division and we were able to meet with all teachers by the end of our TLLP.
Below teachers are brainstorming what students know and what students need to know as it relates to mental math strategies.