Recommended Reads To Supplement Your Professional Library:
Recommended Concrete Materials:
Pattern Blocks Cuisenaire Rods Colour tiles class set of white boards | Two-Sided Counters Dice Geo boards (10x10 circular, isometric) 3D shapes and nets | Tangrams Algebra Tiles Playing Cards Loose parts |
Numeracy Recommended links:
- Free online graphing and scientific calculator to explore concepts more deeply, collaborate with their peers on problem-solving, and apply knowledge creatively as mathematicians.
YouCubed
K – 12 Brain Science, Math Mindset, Visual Tasks and Number Talks and The Week of Inspirational Math.
Co-created by Jo Boaler.
former high school mathematics teacher who has kept his research interest and activities close to the classroom
mathematical problem solving; numeracy; and engaging student thinking
- High school math specialist blog with inspiring ideas and links.
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.
Cofounder of @openmiddle and author of Open Middle Math
“I share math strategies and resources that create problem solvers, not robots.”
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
Responsive teaching practices in Math and Science connected to the new BC curriculum
SD38 K- 12 Math and Science Consultant
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.
High Yield Routines:
Peter Liljedahl's Good Problems Collection of good problems that promote group problem solving and vertical surfaces | 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. |
http://www.visualpatterns.org/ Hundreds of daily visual patterns to strengthen connections between algebraic representations by Fawn Nguyen |
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 |
Sara Van der Werf’s compiled images of real-life math fails to get kids thinking. |
As more and more of the graph is revealed, students refine their interpretation and construct meaning, often in surprising ways. |
What's Going On in This Graph? Weekly graphs and visuals to read and analyze. |
Highly engaging and popular math routine for practicing reasonable estimation, math vocabulary, and pattern recognition. | Each set of graphs comes with prompting questions for students to explore |
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