Description: Are you a fan of Dan Meyer and Graham Fletcher? We've taken their existing 3 Act Tasks and transformed them into ready-to-use, teacher friendly lessons in a convenient slide show format. Come preview our work and you will leave with a collection of these lessons.
Description: Effective teaching of mathematics facilitates discourse among students to build shared understanding of mathematical ideas by analyzing and comparing student approaches and arguments (NCTM Teaching Practice). This session will examine mathematical tasks that focus on procedures with connections and doing mathematics. Tasks that have high-cognitive demand are complex enough to give students something to […]
Description: Explore the importance of counting in PreK through 2nd grade classrooms. Learn about assessments that can be used to identify counting strengths and weaknesses in students. Learn about activities to support counting, number sequence, and recognition that you can easily implement in your classroom.