My kids can : making math accessible to all learners, K–5
The Planning Karen began coming into our rooms for the small-group math instruction a few months into the year. At the time, all ...
students to realize that there are 3 groups of cars within the 315. Then we deter- mined that the students would need to realize ...
What Is the Question? Once we had worked on the visualization and representations, we returned to the “unpacking part.” KAREN: S ...
So there are 10 10 10 5 35 silver cars. Then there is another part. They are going to need to subtract to find out how ma ...
what the question was asking. Establishing the representations, such as cubes and arrays, to help them visualize and solve the p ...
KAREN: Are you saying that we need to multiply? GLORIA: Shouldn’t we divide? If we did multiply we would get too many. This was ...
Karen was glad that we had discussed possible computation strategies prior to the lesson. She was able to support the students a ...
JAY: Divide them in half. NINA: But they aren’t half white and black. KAREN: Why are we dividing? Julio thought that they needed ...
The Debriefing Meeting The following Monday, we met to discuss how the small-group discussion un- folded. This was an opportunit ...
tried to stay with us, but when we got to the ratio piece, her thinking started to break down. JOHN: So that was when you used t ...
MARTA: We had sort of anticipated that they would hit a wall when they had to split up the black and white. KAREN: And we were r ...
of Title I assistants who collaborate with teachers in other classrooms. All three of us hope that this positive experience of w ...
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References Asera, Rose. 2006. “Pipeline or Pipedream: Another Way to Think About Basic Skills.” Carnegie Perspectives. Stanford, ...
REFERENCES Hong, Lily Toy. 1995. Two of Everything: A Chinese Folktale. New York: Harcourt Brace Publishers. Hyde, Arthur. 2006. ...
Russell, Susan Jo, Karen Economopoulos, Lucy Wittenberg, et al. 2008. Multiple Towers and Division Stories. A fourth-grade unit ...
Schoenfeld, Alan. 1992. “Learning to Think Mathematically: Problem Solving, Metacognition, and Sense-Making in Mathematics.” In ...
Contributors Mary Kay Archeris a fourth-grade teacher in a rural community in Michigan. Teaching mathematics and paying attentio ...
CONTRIBUTORS Spacecurriculum and now works on revising and creating professional devel- opment for the second edition. Before wo ...
teacher in this program. Christina is a former winner of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teachi ...
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