Comments on: The OUSD Instructional Toolkit for Mathematics

By: Thom

Thom — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 02:14:34 +0000

This is great :)

I read a book on math workshops this summer that hit basically all of these points and I’ve tried to really incorporate writing in math this year. Students have a Google Slides reflection where they write about the concepts in the units. Started with writing about every lesson in the unit but that got to be more of a chore with all the other work, so I’ve modified it to where they only have to write about the the lesson they understood the most and the lesson they understood the least (at first).

Do you have a resource that has best practices when going through the 3 Act problems? Do you do them whole group? Start whole group and let them work independently and then come back together? Would it ever be homework? I imagine not since so much of it’s value is in discourse over the problem.

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By: Michelle Corbett

Michelle Corbett — Thu, 01 May 2014 14:56:19 +0000

This toolkit is going to be incredibly useful to myself and my colleauges. It is very refreshing and encouraging to see people taking action to help guide themselves and the rest of us! Thank you for sharing such a great resource.

By: Taylor

Taylor — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 19:36:53 +0000

What an amazing resource, Dan – thanks so much for sharing! The advice and examples are specific and thorough, so I can easily apply these to my classroom.

The Participation Quiz is great, 3-Read is essential, and Number Talks are amazing. I printed the entire 60 page pdf and shared it with many colleagues.

I will be using this extensively during my planning. Please keep passing things like this along!

By: Liz P

Liz P — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 03:12:53 +0000

Dan,
As other schools we are developing our teaching strategies for the CCSS. Thanks for sharing this toolkit. A great guide teachers of other districts.

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:57:08 +0000

I like the card. The first four are something I would make the students fill out regularly. What a delightfully concrete set of mathematical expectations.

I think somehow “explain your reasoning” and “can someone else rephrase what Timmy just said?” have the tendency to turn into “wonk wonk wonk” after a while.

(Sorry if I was too star-struck @ the MSM conference) XD

By: Dan Meyer

Dan Meyer — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 14:06:49 +0000

Hi Clara, as far as I know, this is a copyrighted, all-rights-reserved situation where the author has made it available freely online.

By: Clara

Clara — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 09:29:58 +0000

Dan, is this under Creative Commons? This is what I strive to do as I teach, and this is a wonderful way to share the “how to do this” with other teachers. I agree with you about the evidence card. I deal with special ed and ell- this is beautifully designed! Thank you for sharing.