Elementary High Yield Routines:
Highly engaging and popular math routine for practicing reasonable estimationm, math vocabulary and pattern recognition.  | Inspired by Dan Meyer, but carried through by some #MTBoS pioneers, dozens of K-12 tasks where students enjoy reasoning and making their thinking visible. | Dozens of powerful number sense images from SteveWyborney, along with suggestions for using them on Steve's website. |
Got kids who jump into a solution attempt before trying to make sense of the context (we all do!)? Brilliant solution from Brian Bushart to remove the numbers to promote sense-making. Plenty of examples here. |
Chris Shore, Andrew Stadel and Daniel Luevanos team up to put an amazing twist on the number line for secondary classroom, which Tim McCaffrey calls the "Master Number-Sense Maker". |
The most awesome bank of hundreds of estimation tasks for 3rd to 12th graders by Andrew Stadel |
A sweet garden of visuals for Nat Banting to kick start discourse with Fraction-Geometry-Algebraic Thinking connections out the WAH-ZOO. |
Here's a great collection of images that will stimulate meaningful discourse. |
Lots of images to support students in developing the habit of comparing and connecting representations. |
Shannon Andrews put together a year's worth of daily warm-ups including Estimation180, Visual Patterns, WODB and Would You Rather in slides and handouts! |
John Stevens' spin on the classic "would you rather" supporting constructing viable arguments and critiquing reasoning |
Daily K-12 tasks assembled by Mary Bourassa at http://wodb.ca/index.html |
Daily photo/video estimation tasks for K-2, inspired by Andrew Stadel, |
http://www.visualpatterns.org/ Hundreds of daily visual patterns to strengthen connections between algebraic representations by Fawn Nguyen |
What's Going On in This Graph? Weekly graphs and visuals to read and analyze. |
As more and more of the graph is revealed, students refine their interpretation and construct meaning, often in surprising ways. |
10 downloadable PowerPoint files with dot patterns and subitizing challenges. |
Sara Van der Werf’s compiled images of real-life math fails to get kids thinking. |
Recommended Concrete Materials:
Base Ten Blocks Pattern Blocks Cuisenaire Rods Ten Frames | Two-Sided Counters Dice Geo boards (5x5) 3D solids and shapes | Unifix Cubes Rekenreks Playing Cards Loose parts |
Must Have Reads:
These two Canadian resources are a must read for any K - 8 Math teacher. Either of these two resources will highlight the foundations of how children learn math through rich tasks, manipulatives and discourse.
Recommended Reads To Supplement Your Professional Library:
Elementary Numeracy sites:
Responsive teaching practices in Math and Science connected to the new BC curriculum
SD38 K- 12 Math and Science Consultant
Creator of Fascinating and Informative Math Progressions Videos and 3 Acts Lessons.
10+ years as a classroom teacher, Math coach, and a district Math specialist.
Games and resources to support student number sense development
Private K – 9 Math teacher consultant in British Columbia
Creator of SPLAT, Tiled Area Questions, Esti-Mysteries and Cube Connectors activities
He is well known for his use of instructional technology and his work with mathematics
The Recovering Traditionalist K-5
Focuses on Conceptual Understanding
Christina Tondevold provides tutorials and PD videos for educators to learn about how children think about Mathematics.
- Is a Professor of Mathematics Education at Simon Fraser University and author of Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics
- Focuses on Rich Number Tasks and Good Problem Solving in the K - 12 classroom
Math missionary on the power of creative problem solving
Author of a book series that will help children gain the range of skills needed for higher math (Grapes of Math)
Cofounder of @openmiddle and author of Open Middle Math
“I share math strategies and resources that create problem solvers, not robots.”
YouCubed
K – 12 Brain Science, Math Mindset, Visual Tasks and Number Talks and The Week of Inspirational Math.
Co-created by Jo Boaler.
British Columbia Association of Math Teachers: A Provincial Specialist Association of the BC Teachers' Federation
K-12 educators collaborating to inspire numeracy across the province through dynamic teaching and learning.
- Dan Finkel and Katherine Cook, a husband and wife team devoted to transforming how math is taught and learned.
- They develop math games and curriculum, including tons of free lesson plans on this site.