Middle Years Math on the Move!

1. Middle Years Math on the Move! Promoting Confident and Capable 21st Century Math Learners

2. Teaching to the Big Ideas Marian Small January 2010

3. explore Math Makes Sense Distinctives Reflect practice • Students DO Math • Builds on prior knowledge • Accommodates a variety of levels and learning styles • Teaching through Problem Solving Show & Share • Highlights the mathematical target – without solving the Explore! • Focuses the learning for students, teachers, and parents connect • Clarifies, refines, and applies learning to new situations

4. Next Steps

5. Our primary goal is to complete the big ideas resource for teachers today! • Complete Smart Notebook (Teacher Resource): • In lab/board room, finish creating the Notebook (a tool to share understanding of the big ideas) • Write script for notebook lesson: with your slides in front of you • talk about the big ideas in your concept area • Once the script is completed, return to board room to compete voice recording

6. Professional Learning Focus

7. Math Reasoning Skills Teaching students to expect, and excel at, paint-by-number class work, robs students of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them.

8. Math Class Needs a Makeover Dan Meyer

10. Math Reasoning • The ability to apply process to problems in the real world

11. 5 symptoms that you are doing math reasoning wrong • Lack of initiative- don’t self start • Lack of perseverance • Lack of retention- need to re- explain and re-teach • Aversion to word problems- 99% of students • Eagerness for formula

12. Are we shaping neural pathways to expect easy problems? ...creating impatience with irresolution?

13. What real-life problem have you ever come across where all the information is given?

14. We are doing the thinking! 4 layers that create impatient problem solving: • Visual • Mathematical Structure- grid, labels, measurements • Sub-Steps • Question • Traditionally, textbooks, not students do the thinking and pave the path to success.

15. Process to Rebuild Problems 1. Eliminate given information 2. Start with the Visual- use pictures/video and ask the question 3. Encourage discussion and debate- know when you have baited the hook 4. Invite students to Identify what would make it easier or what is needed to solve the problem 5. Then offer the structure: Labels and measurement The math serves the conversation the conversation does not serve the math! 6. Let students create the sub-steps if needed

16. Supporting Patient Problem-solvers • Every student is on a even playing field • Refining what math is and what a problem is • Increases student engagement and discussion • Use multi-media • Encourage student intuition • Ask the shortest question you can • Let students build the problem- because Einstein said so • Be less helpful

17. How Do We Teach Math Reasoning? NCTM Professional Standards suggests that the students’ roleis to “initiate problems andquestions; make conjectures andpresent solutions” (p. 45).

18. Math is the vocabulary for your own intuition! When students make public conjectures and reason with others about mathematics, ideas and knowledge are developed collaboratively, revealing mathematics as constructed by human beings within an intellectual community. (NCTM 1991, 34)

19. Dan Meyer Professional Learning Focus Jane Keiser, NCTM

20. Exploring Angles

21. What is an angle? All these have angles.

22. What is an angle? Does a ball have an angle? Does a rainbow have an angle?

23. Define Angle • Write your own definition of what is an angle. • Share and discuss in triad.

24. The Role of Definition • Anticipation Guide

25. Re-Designing Textbook Problems

26. Tower 2 Tower 1 Tower 3 How can you report the directions from each tower to locate the fire?

27. Process to Rebuild Problems 1. Eliminate given information 2. Start with the Visual- use pictures/video and ask the question 3. Encourage discussion and debate- know when you have baited the hook 4. Invite students to Identify what would make it easier or what is needed to solve the problem 5. Then offer the structure: Labels and measurement The math serves the conversation the conversation does not serve the math! 6. Let students create the sub-steps if needed

28. North North Tower 2 Tower 1 Tower 3 How can you report the compass directions from each tower to locate the fire?

29. Golf Irons and the Shot Irons have different loft angles to hit different distances. • Golf clubs are made to hit the ball different distances. Irons have different loft angles--the angle between the face of the blade and the shaft--to hit the ball different distances. The loft of a typical pitching wedge is about 45 degrees, but this can vary with different manufacturers.

31. Board passhttp://www.jes-hockey.com Learn to use the Boards and the Glass: The boards and the glass are your friends, not only when practicing but in game situations. Try to learn how to make passes off the boards and incorporate these moves into your skills. Try to pass the puck off the boards and then pick it up on the other side of the defender

32. Your Turn…