Embolden Your Inner Mathematician

Instructional Core
We can engage in
purposeful instructional talk
to focus on the instructional core.
 THE INSTRUCTIONAL CORE

Engaging students in
Student the learning process

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 Embolden Your Inner Mathematician

Implement Tasks that Promote Reasoning and Problem Solving.

Effective teaching of mathematics engages students in solving

and discussing tasks that promote mathematical reasoning and
problem solving and allow multiple entry points and varied
solution strategies.

Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All

Leinwand, Steven. Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All. Reston: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics,
2014. Print.
 Implement Tasks the Promote
Reasoning and Problem Solving

Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All. NCTM, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2014.
reasoning and problem solving
Implement Tasks that promote

Gough, Jill, and Jennifer Wilson. "#LL2LU Learning Progressions." Experiments in Learning by Doing or Easing the Hurry
Syndrome. WordPress, 04 Aug. 2014. Web. 11 Mar. 2017. Used with written permission.
Norm: Make sense and persevere

Gough, Jill, and Jennifer Wilson. "#LL2LU Learning Progressions: SMP." Experiments in Learning by Doing or Easing
the Hurry Syndrome. WordPress, 04 Aug. 2014. Web. 11 Mar. 2017. Used with written permission.
Norm: #ShowYourWork

Gough, Jill, and Kato Nims. "#LL2LU Learning Progressions." Experiments in Learning by Doing or Colorful Learning.
WordPress, 04 Aug. 2014. Web. 11 Mar. 2017. Used with written permission.
Kaplinsky, Robert, Marilyn Burns, and Graham Fletcher. "Open Middle." Open Middle. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 June 2017.
<http://www.openmiddle.com/>.
 What the standards say...

3rd Grade
Multiply one-digit whole numbers by multiples of 10 in the range 10-90
(e.g., 9 × 80, 5 × 60) using strategies based on place value and properties
of operations.
4th Grade
Multiply a whole number of up to four digits by a one-digit whole number,
and multiply two two-digit numbers, using strategies based on place value
and the properties of operations. Illustrate and explain the calculation by
using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models.
5th Grade
Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.
 Embolden Your Inner Mathematician

Use and connect mathematical representations.

Effective teaching of mathematics engages students in
making connections among mathematical representations
to deepen understanding of mathematics concepts and
procedures and as tools for problem solving.
Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All

Leinwand, Steven. Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All. Reston: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics,
2014. Print.
Use and Connect Multiple Representations

Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All. NCTM, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2014.
Norm: Use Mathematical
Representations

Gough, Jill, and Jennifer Wilson. "#LL2LU Learning Progressions." Experiments in Learning by Doing or Easing the Hurry
Syndrome. WordPress, 04 Aug. 2014. Web. 11 Mar. 2017. Used with written permission.
Norm: Connect Mathematical
Representations

Gough, Jill, and Jennifer Wilson. "#LL2LU Learning Progressions." Experiments in Learning by Doing or Easing the Hurry
Syndrome. WordPress, 04 Aug. 2014. Web. 11 Mar. 2017. Used with written permission.
 Number Talks

Number Talks are about students making sense of

their own mathematical ideas.

Humphreys, Cathy; Parker, Ruth. Making Number Talks Matter (Kindle Locations 326-327). Stenhouse Publishers. Kindle Edition.
 Number Talks

Number Talks are about students making sense of

their own mathematical ideas.

● There are many ways to see, or do, any problem.

● Everyone is responsible for communicating his or her
thinking clearly so that others can understand.
● Everyone is responsible for trying to understand other
people’s thinking.

Humphreys, Cathy; Parker, Ruth. Making Number Talks Matter (Kindle Locations 326-327). Stenhouse Publishers. Kindle Edition.
 Ambitious Teaching

In ambitious teaching, the teacher engages students in

challenging tasks and collaborative inquiry, and then observes
and listens as students work so that she or he can provide an
appropriate level of support to diverse learners. The goal is to
ensure that each and every student succeeds in doing
meaningful, high-quality work, not simply executing
procedures with speed and accuracy. (Smith, 4 pag.)

Humphreys, Cathy; Parker, Ruth. Making Number Talks Matter (Kindle Locations 339-340). Stenhouse Publishers. Kindle Edition.
 What the standards say...
2nd Grade
Add and subtract within 1000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies
based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between
addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method. Understand that in
adding or subtracting three-digit numbers, one adds or subtracts hundreds and
hundreds, tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to
compose or decompose tens or hundreds.
3rd Grade
Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on
place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and
subtraction.
4th Grade
Fluently add and subtract multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.
 Number Talks

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 Number Talks

65-39
Strategies:
● I can use 10’s and 1’s on a hundreds chart.
● I can count back on an open number line.
● I can count up on an open number line.
● I can decompose using place value understanding.
● I can use compensation.
Number Talks
 What the standards say...

3rd Grade
Multiply one-digit whole numbers by multiples of 10 in the range 10-90
(e.g., 9 × 80, 5 × 60) using strategies based on place value and properties
of operations.
4th Grade
Multiply a whole number of up to four digits by a one-digit whole number,
and multiply two two-digit numbers, using strategies based on place value
and the properties of operations. Illustrate and explain the calculation by
using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models.
5th Grade
Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.
 Number Talks

81 x 25

Humphreys, Cathy; Parker, Ruth. Making Number Talks Matter (Kindle Locations 343-346). Stenhouse Publishers. Kindle Edition.
 Number Talks

81 x 25
Strategies:
● I can decompose a factor into 2 or more addends.
● I can factor a factor.
● I can round a factor and adjust.
● I can double and half.
Number Talks
 Number Talks

56 ÷ 4
 Number Talks

225 ÷ 3
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288 ÷ 12