Math Teachers' Circle Takeaways #1
Monday, September 23, 2019
Making Thinking Visible,
Math Teachers' Circle,
Norms,
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Today was the outset of 3 days of my local math teachers' circle's summertime immersion workshop. Picture a room total of thirty elementary, middle, as well as high schoolhouse teachers addition a smattering of academy professors inwards a room exploring challenging problems together. This is my 2nd twelvemonth attending, as well as it is an absolute blast.
We had breakfast, 2 morn work solving sessions, lunch, as well as an afternoon work solving session. The topics nosotros explored today were pentominoes as well as divisibility, cryptography, as well as something called polygon differencing.
My destination amongst this post service is to part a duo of my take-aways from today. We had to accept a pre-workshop survey, as well as i of the questions asked virtually what nosotros felt were our strengths as well as weaknesses equally a mathematics teacher. I listed didactics students to work solve equally a weakness. With this inwards mind, I kept a page of ideas throughout the course of written report of the day.
One of my favorite things nosotros did was de-brief afterward the outset session on pentominoes. We were asked to accept out a canvass of newspaper as well as reply 2 questions.
1. What characteristics depict a proficient grouping member?
2. What characteristics depict a proficient work solver?
We took our answers to these questions, shared them inwards our groups, as well as and then compiled a overstep 3 listing for our group. Then, nosotros compiled our grouping lists into a laid upwards of norms.
Since I am planning to own got students move inwards groups this coming schoolhouse year, I intend I'd similar to create some work solving activities the outset few days as well as prepare a laid upwards of norms at the same time. These norms could as well as then live posted for students to reference throughout the schoolhouse year.
Now, I merely demand to figure out what sorts of problems I desire to pose to my students.
Another thing I rapidly took banker's complaint of equally shortly equally nosotros did it thus I wouldn't forget was a circular robin strategy for sharing inside our groups. The facilitator provided us amongst our outset work as well as told us to conduct house it independently for 10 minutes. No discussing amongst tablemates at all. Then, afterward the timer went off, she announced that nosotros were going to create a circular robin. How she approached the circular robin actually appealed to me. Instead of call for everyone to part what they had come upwards up with, she asked each somebody to learn merely about the circle as well as (in less than a minute) part how he/she had originally approached the problem. We weren't supposed to part what nosotros had discovered inwards the 10 minutes nosotros had been working on the problem. We were alone supposed to part our initial thoughts. It was real interesting to remove heed where everyone inwards the grouping had started. This provided insights into how others were thinking that commonly wouldn't live shared because they weren't polished/proved/or fifty-fifty right.
When I merely inquire students to part terminal answers without how they got there, I'm doing a disservice to my students. This reminds me of the majority Making Thinking Visible (affiliate link) which I read inwards early on 2013. I pulled it dorsum out this calendar week as well as started it again.
Looking frontward to sharing to a greater extent than takeaways soon!
We had breakfast, 2 morn work solving sessions, lunch, as well as an afternoon work solving session. The topics nosotros explored today were pentominoes as well as divisibility, cryptography, as well as something called polygon differencing.
My destination amongst this post service is to part a duo of my take-aways from today. We had to accept a pre-workshop survey, as well as i of the questions asked virtually what nosotros felt were our strengths as well as weaknesses equally a mathematics teacher. I listed didactics students to work solve equally a weakness. With this inwards mind, I kept a page of ideas throughout the course of written report of the day.
Developing Norms
One of my favorite things nosotros did was de-brief afterward the outset session on pentominoes. We were asked to accept out a canvass of newspaper as well as reply 2 questions.
1. What characteristics depict a proficient grouping member?
2. What characteristics depict a proficient work solver?
We took our answers to these questions, shared them inwards our groups, as well as and then compiled a overstep 3 listing for our group. Then, nosotros compiled our grouping lists into a laid upwards of norms.
Since I am planning to own got students move inwards groups this coming schoolhouse year, I intend I'd similar to create some work solving activities the outset few days as well as prepare a laid upwards of norms at the same time. These norms could as well as then live posted for students to reference throughout the schoolhouse year.
Now, I merely demand to figure out what sorts of problems I desire to pose to my students.
Round Robin Strategy
Another thing I rapidly took banker's complaint of equally shortly equally nosotros did it thus I wouldn't forget was a circular robin strategy for sharing inside our groups. The facilitator provided us amongst our outset work as well as told us to conduct house it independently for 10 minutes. No discussing amongst tablemates at all. Then, afterward the timer went off, she announced that nosotros were going to create a circular robin. How she approached the circular robin actually appealed to me. Instead of call for everyone to part what they had come upwards up with, she asked each somebody to learn merely about the circle as well as (in less than a minute) part how he/she had originally approached the problem. We weren't supposed to part what nosotros had discovered inwards the 10 minutes nosotros had been working on the problem. We were alone supposed to part our initial thoughts. It was real interesting to remove heed where everyone inwards the grouping had started. This provided insights into how others were thinking that commonly wouldn't live shared because they weren't polished/proved/or fifty-fifty right.
When I merely inquire students to part terminal answers without how they got there, I'm doing a disservice to my students. This reminds me of the majority Making Thinking Visible (affiliate link) which I read inwards early on 2013. I pulled it dorsum out this calendar week as well as started it again.
Looking frontward to sharing to a greater extent than takeaways soon!
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