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Learn how to transform students into active and engaged learners in the math classroom. Explore different actions and assignments to foster independent thinking, internal motivation, and a focus on learning rather than just grades.
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Student or Learner?Engaging Learners in Math Presented by Heather Sparks, NBCT
Let’s Describe a… • Passive • Bored • Told what to think • Typically unmotivated • Focused on the grade • Active • Engaged • An independent thinker • Internally motivated • Focused on the learning Student Learner
Let’s Take a Look • Student/Learner 1.0 • Student/Learner 2.0 • Student/Learner 3.0
Characteristics of ‘Learner’ Actions: • With a partner, generate a list of attributes of a ‘learner’ in a math classroom. (e.g., What do you see them doing?)
From the Math Classroom… • Form groups of three. • Sort your classroom descriptions into two stacks: • Student actionsLearner actions • Transform each ‘student’ action into a • ‘learner’ action by creating a new assignment • 4. Select your favorite transformation to share.
Student or Learner? Students complete a 40-problem addition fact practice worksheet.
Student or Learner? Students are conducting a school-wide poll and representing the results in graphical form.
Student or Learner? Students take a multiple choice test over adding fractions.
Student or Learner? Students design array posters to represent multiplication facts.
Student or Learner? Students complete problems 2-18 on page 36 in their workbook. (Concept is symmetry).
Student or Learner? Students design new packaging for an oddly-shaped toy.
Student or Learner? Students write fact families ten times each.
Student or Learner? Students play “Around the World” with division facts.
The Power of Process Skills • Problem-Solving • Communication • Reasoning • Connections • Representation
Problem-Solving • PIG
Playing PIG • The goal of the game is to be the first player to reach 100. • On your turn, roll the dice as many times as you would like, mentally keeping a running total of the sum. When you decide to stop rolling, record your total for that turn and add it to the total from any previous turns. • If a 1 comes up on one of the dice, your turn is over and you score 0 points for that round. If you roll a 1 on both dice, you lose your turn and ALL points.
Communication • Guess My Unit
Guess My Unit • Select a unit. Give clues about your unit until someone guesses what it is. mile centimeter pound gram inch kilometer cup decade quart milligram foot liter
Reasoning • Last Survivor (K-1) • Poison/21 (2nd gr. +)
Last Survivor • Two players lay out 13 color tiles. • Players take turns removing 1 or 2 tiles • at a time. • 3. The player who takes the last tile is the • Last Survivor and wins the game. • Play several games of Last Survivor. • Be ready to talk about good moves • and bad moves.
Connections • Height and Shoe Size Correlation
Connections • What is the correlation between your height and shoe length?
Height/Shoe Size Correlation • Use the tools around the room to • measure your height in decimeters • and your foot length in centimeters. • Record your measurements on the class • scatter plot. • Look for any correlation. Be ready to • explain how you know.
Representation • Every Graph Tells a Story
