Here are all of the resources from today*:
Invitation and Program for 2016/17
Agenda and Notes from today (Oct. 27, 2016)
A couple of one (or two) pagers from two awesome math teachers:
Marion Small - this resource has tons of interesting open-ended questions to promote curiosity in math class. She also has some great recommendations and tips on teaching math.
Fawn Nguyen - these are Susan's notes from Fawn's keynote at the BC Math Teachers Association conference this fall. Some excellent thoughts and important considerations for teaching math!
We discussed the inquiry process we could use to examine our professional practice. Here are some notes on the Spirals Of Inquiry, as well as some thoughts on making math meaningful for our students.
- We will begin with "scanning", so to start us off we are all committed to doing a simple assessment from this resource: Northern Lights Numeracy Assessment .
- One idea was to have a class discussion about math focusing on "what is math?" and "where do we find math?" This would be followed up with asking students to answer these questions: What causes you to feel successful when you are doing math? What causes you to struggle in math? and What learning environment makes you feel comfortable in a math class?
- Another idea was to have students create a web about math (same questions as the class discussion above).
NEXT SESSION: Plan to report back in and bring samples from doing an assessment with your class from the Northern Lights Numeracy Assessment and from your check in with students about their attitude and feelings towards math.
*I've also added all of these resources to our shared folder. This folder has been developed over three years of our Math Inquiry Projects. You can save it to your Google Drive and access it easily that way (if you are not sure how to do this, I can show you!).
