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Moving Beyond the Facts

Promoting Mathematical Reasoning at Home
Jenna Laib K-8 Math Specialist Driscoll School / Brookline, MA

What Practice Typically Looks Like

What does traditional fact practice often look like?
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Rote Repetitive Based on memorization Right or wrong

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little emphasis on how to justify a response or fix misconceptions

Player 339 is about to answer 5.

How will he know that his answer is incorrect? What will happen next?

What does a 21st century workplace require?

We want people who can apply what they know to evaluate problems and create solutions.
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Reasoning and explaining Modeling and using tools Seeing structure and generalizing Strong habits of mind
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seeing oneself as a mathematician persevering through problems

Two Approaches to 1,000 - 998

Second grade students Joy & Aisha

Two Approaches to 15 x 12
Second grade students Romeo & Zoe

12 x 15: Romeo & Zoe

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Romeos Response

Zoes Response

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questions correctly.

SO WHAT DO WE VALUE?

Common Core Standards

Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks 2011

Mathematical Practice Standards

Reasoning & Explaining

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The power of how do you know and tell me more Ask questions!

Word Cloud (or wordle)

construct viable argument and critique the reasoning of others

Parking in New York City

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Wow! Ive never seen cars stacked like that before. What questions come to mind? How can we figure out how many cars there might be without counting? How do we know if our answer is reasonable?

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Pancakes at the Youkilis House

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Mr. Youkilis and his son are serving up a special brunch for their extended family. The pancake recipe calls for 2 eggs. They need to triple the recipe. Will their dozen eggs be enough? How do we know?

Fact Check
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Wikipedia reports that 8% of all Americans eat at McDonalds every day. 310 million Americans and 12,800 McDonalds do you believe the wikipedia report to be true?

Modeling and Using Tools

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Showing the same thing multiple ways Organizing information Using a math model you may already use some!
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Table or T-chart Pictures organize them around 10s and 1s

Word Cloud for Model with Mathematics

Seeing Structure and Generalizating

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What patterns do you notice? Will this always work? Why or why not?

Counting Quarters
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How many loads of laundry can I do? how long could I park at a Brookline meter? Organized into stacks of $1 Organized stacks into clusters of $5 Look how easy it is to determine the total value! I shouldnt loose count.

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Look for and make use of structure.

Habits of Mind
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Curiosity Math isnt magical; math makes sense Persevere Connect to real-world thinking as problem solvers

Attend to Precision

If you remember nothing else

Goldilocks Estimation
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Establish a range
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Whats the least it could be? the greatest?

How do we know if were reasonable?

Resources
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http://mathspecialists.org/NCSM/ CCSSPracticestoContentAM&PMFINALNov2forweb.pdf Commoncore.org