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President's Message, Joanie Funderburk
President's Message, Joanie Funderburk
Colorado Mathematics Teacher
Avoid temptation to keep students from experiencing struggle. Promote students’ productive struggle, by providing rich tasks and problems for students to engage with, anticipating student difficulties, and planning questions and supports.
Using Video Clips To Identify And Promote Children's Rights As Mathematics Learners, Crystal Kalinec-Craig
Using Video Clips To Identify And Promote Children's Rights As Mathematics Learners, Crystal Kalinec-Craig
Colorado Mathematics Teacher
The Rights of the Learner state that children have four rights they can exercise in the classroom: 1) the right to be confused; 2) the right to claim a mistake; 3) the right to speak, listen, and be heard; and 4) the right to write, do and represent what makes sense to you. In this paper, the author discusses how she uses a video clip of Gretchen solving a multi-digit subtraction problem as a way of helping elementary teacher candidates learn how to attend to children’s mathematical thinking and moments when they exercise their rights as learners. Implications for equity …
A Productive Math Struggle: Questions And Assessment, Jenni Harding
A Productive Math Struggle: Questions And Assessment, Jenni Harding
Colorado Mathematics Teacher
The focus is on productive math struggle questions. Questions given to pose during instruction, to have mathematical conversations, and to evaluate learning. A rubric is provided to evaluate student math conversations. An effective and efficient structure is created where students can delve deeper into mathematics through group discussions.