Qualities of an Effective Mathematics Classroom
Banting Math Makes Sense Walkthrough
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For your students...
For your teaching...
RATIONAL:
The goal according to van De walle is that
"Every child should come to believe that mathematics makes sense and, even more important, that she or he is capable o.f making sense qf mathematics " p.*u
We want students to become "confident dcers of mathematics".
Making a cultural shift: what other subject is it acceptable to say "I'm not good at it"? as an excuse.
We must weave 5 aspects of mathematical proficiency together to achieve this.
These are interwoven and interdependent with one another. (see handout)
Conceptuol
Understanding Procedural Fluency
Strategic Competence
Adaptive Reasoning
Productive Disposition
Making Sense of Math
The Math Makes Sense lesson design helps to foster this process for teachers as lessons are structured to do this as they are set out.
Consequences: when students can make sense they can recall knowledge easily, apply it in variety of ways, rely on reasoning more and memory less, and solve unfamiliar problems.
CHANGE:
involves a continuum of experiences
Horu yott approach chonge?
Change is good
I can tolerate it
Change sucks!
What do you do tvlten tltere is a change?
Toleratc it
Embrace it motivated Stoic assimilation
Enthusiastic,
Reject it
Grieving, hostile
How competent do youfeel?
I'm already doing this
I'm starting to feel competent I'm lost
Feeling Competent
Growing Competence
Feeling incompetent
Your responses here affect your overall willingness lo:
persist,
continue, Iearn,
and improve,
Recognize these change over tinte and in response to
Keep this
dffirent
in mind when plonning your implententatiott.
circuntslances.
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Aspects of
Hi
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Strategic
Adaptive
Reasoning
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ISBN
WRITE:
- 2 columns
\\/ha1 clo vor.r \\,an1 1o sec happcn throuul'l usin{r this resource?
For your students...
For your teaching...
RATIONAL:
The goal according to van De walle is that
"Every child should come to believe that mathematics makes sense and, even more important, that she or he is capable o.f making sense qf mathematics " p.*u
We want students to become "confident dcers of mathematics".
Making a cultural shift: what other subject is it acceptable to say "I'm not good at it"? as an excuse.
We must weave 5 aspects of mathematical proficiency together to achieve this.
These are interwoven and interdependent with one another. (see handout)
Conceptuol
Understanding Procedural Fluency
Strategic Competence
Adaptive Reasoning
Productive Disposition
Making Sense of Math
The Math Makes Sense lesson design helps to foster this process for teachers as lessons are structured to do this as they are set out.
Consequences: when students can make sense they can recall knowledge easily, apply it in variety of ways, rely on reasoning more and memory less, and solve unfamiliar problems.
CHANGE:
involves a continuum of experiences
Horu yott approach chonge?
Change is good
I can tolerate it
Change sucks!
What do you do tvlten tltere is a change?
Toleratc it
Embrace it motivated Stoic assimilation
Enthusiastic,
Reject it
Grieving, hostile
How competent do youfeel?
I'm already doing this
I'm starting to feel competent I'm lost
Feeling Competent
Growing Competence
Feeling incompetent
Your responses here affect your overall willingness lo:
persist,
continue, Iearn,
and improve,
Recognize these change over tinte and in response to
Keep this
dffirent
in mind when plonning your implententatiott.
circuntslances.
a
iifri
Aspects of
Hi
atical
$r€ncy
Strategic
Adaptive
Reasoning
r-llodrqj.u.
/ utsposttton
ISBN