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Mathematical Muse: November 2015

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RFSD Family Math Blog. Every time I do a 3-Act-Task with a class, I am so amazed at the solutions students produce. The variety of methods, the way they explain their strategy to classmates, and their ability to justify solutions and thinking lead to such a powerful discussion and rich math period! This week I've been working with some 4th grade classes on multiplication of 2-digit by 2-digit numbers. The application lesson was a 15 minute number talk followed by a 3-Act-Task from Graham Fletcher. To see...

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Mathematical Muse: January 2016

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RFSD Family Math Blog. BREAKOUT of Your Typical Routine. What a dramatic finish! How is this relevant to the math classroom? If you have not explored BreakoutEDU. You should head over to their site right now. They make educational games similar to the escape room, except the students are trying to get into a locked box. Two high school teachers demonstrated how these games work during our most recent district professional development day, and it was AWESOME! Games can also be customized. From an NCTM art...

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Mathematical Muse: May 2015

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RFSD Family Math Blog. Check out these expanded form cards that 2nd grade students are using at Greenwood! There are many templates out there, or cards for purchase, but we made our own! E-mail me if you would like the docs to print, laminate, and cut. These are a great tool to use across grade levels to reinforce place value concepts and to use when learning "partial methods". You can even trade out for different cards to model regrouping! Here's another great resource for real-world math tasks!

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Mathematical Muse: October 2015

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RFSD Family Math Blog. Educators may not always have had access to 3-Act-Tasks and other digital resources for math application activities, but that doesn't need to get in the way of engaging students in unique learning experiences that apply math concepts in real life context! The activity goes like this -. 1 Record birth and death dates from every. Tombstone (dividing the work among pairs or groups). 3 Record data in bar graph. Age at time of death = 179. Wow! Kind of creepy. SUPER INTERESTING! My firs...

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Mathematical Muse: February 2016

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RFSD Family Math Blog. Revealing Representations from Kindergarten. Since my background is in teaching upper elementary, I was a bit nervous to facilitate my first kindergarten level 3-Act-Task. Would they "wonder" the targeted question? Should I expect complete chaos when they are able to choose which math tools they want to use to solve the problem? Mrs Hanson's math class did an awesome job! In this particular task. The information they were given was how many of each color of candy were in the hand.

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Mathematical Muse: December 2015

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RFSD Family Math Blog. Celebrate the Season With Yummy Math. Delight students with these holiday related math activities from www.yummymath.com. Click the Title of the task to be linked to the site*. Check out the Christmas Tree. You are heading to the store to get lights for the tree. Without calculating, guess how many feet of lights you will need. 4th and 5th Grade. Which holiday film do you think is the highest grossing of all time? 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th. Students Harness the Power of TWITTER. You can g...

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Mathematical Muse: April 2015

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RFSD Family Math Blog. Setting the Stage: Math Practices. The Common Core Math Standards fall under two distinct categories: Content Standards. And Standards for Mathematical Practice. Here is a downloadable version of the Practice Standards:. One teacher was struggling to find a way to really connect the standards to her class content and make them meaningful for her students, so she designed a new bulletin board! What would it look like? What would it sound like? When do we use this practice most?

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Mathematical Muse: Math Strategies

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RFSD Family Math Blog. Using an Area Model to Multiply. A visual model for multiplication in which students work on decomposition of numbers and place value structures. Writing About Mental Math. Apply, discuss, and write about mental math strategies. Students are given multi-step computational problem and are instructed to solve it mentally. They write an explanation of how they manipulated the numbers to get their answer. What did you do first? Why did you [add] in that order? By focusing the majority ...

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Mathematical Muse: March 2016

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RFSD Family Math Blog. If you're looking for a free resource that allows students to move through math content at their own pace, AND places them along a trajectory for each Common Core domain, you should check out Front Row! I've only explored the math side of this resource, but I see that there are literacy options as well. Click here. To be taken to the site. Desktop, Chromebook or iPad. Content spans grades K-8*. Program is adaptive, so select student's actual grade level. Here's how it works:. On an...