Thursday, April 21, 2016

Resources from our April 20th session

Here are some of the resources we looked at during our April 20th afternoon session:

Geoff Krall led the PBL session, he is on twitter @emergentmath and he writes a great bloghttps://emergentmath.com/

Here are some links that we refered to: 

Play different versions of KenKen puzzles, or make your own:
http://solveme.edc.org/mysterygrid/

Wooden number blocks:
https://www.sumblox.com/index.php

Open Middle Problems: 
http://www.openmiddle.com/

Which One Doesn't Belong
http://wodb.ca/index.html

Running the Numbers: 
http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn/#silent-spring

Check out #mtbos on twitter, or me @orangeparachute, or jess at @willowsjess
The perfect circle guy from Ottawa is Alex Overwijk and is blog is
http://slamdunkmath.blogspot.ca/ who is also on twitter @AlexOverwijk

Here is the Depth of Knowledge worksheet from Robert Kaplinsky (it is in our shared resources folder on our Google Docs Drive):

Depth of Knowledge

Susan's one pager on Depth of Knowledge (also in our shared drive folder):

Open Middle and Depth of Knowledge

Jo Boaler's article on finger perception and connection to number understanding:
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/04/why-kids-should-use-their-fingers-in-math-class/478053/

Also, here's an article about assessment and mathematics: