Mindset Mathematics: Visualizing and Investigating Big Ideas, Grade 3
Jo Boaler, Jen Munson, Cathy Williams
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Mindset Mathematics: Visualizing and Investigating Big Ideas, Grade 3
Jo Boaler, Jen Munson, Cathy Williams
Informazioni sul libro
Engage students in mathematics using growth mindset techniques
The most challenging parts of teaching mathematics are engaging students and helping them understand the connections between mathematics concepts. In this volume, you'll find a collection of low floor, high ceiling tasks that will help you do just that, by looking at the big ideas at the third-grade level through visualization, play, and investigation.
During their work with tens of thousands of teachers, authors Jo Boaler, Jen Munson, and Cathy Williams heard the same message—that they want to incorporate more brain science into their math instruction, but they need guidance in the techniques that work best to get across the concepts they needed to teach. So the authors designed Mindset Mathematics around the principle of active student engagement, with tasks that reflect the latest brain science on learning. Open, creative, and visual math tasks have been shown to improve student test scores, and more importantly change their relationship with mathematics and start believing in their own potential. The tasks in Mindset Mathematics reflect the lessons from brain science that:
- There is no such thing as a math person - anyone can learn mathematics to high levels.
- Mistakes, struggle and challenge are the most important times for brain growth.
- Speed is unimportant in mathematics.
- Mathematics is a visual and beautiful subject, and our brains want to think visually about mathematics.
With engaging questions, open-ended tasks, and four-color visuals that will help kids get excited about mathematics, Mindset Mathematics is organized around nine big ideas which emphasize the connections within the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and can be used with any current curriculum.
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Big Idea 1
Solving Problems with Data
Tongues, Tails, and in Between
Snapshot
Agenda
Activity | Time | Description/Prompt | Materials |
Launch | 5–10 min | Show students the Animal Tongue Lengths graph on a projector and ask what the graph shows. Collect students' observations and the reasoning behind them. | Animal Tongue Lengths graph, to display |
Explore | 20–25 min | Partners record their observations of the data in the Animal Tongue Lengths graph. Using these interpretations, partners may construct alternative data displays. |
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Discuss | 10–15 min | Discuss the observations students made of the Animal Tongue Lengths graph and how they read the measurements on the scaled vertical axis. Discuss students' alternative data displays, for those who made them, and compare the ways the data is shown. | Animal Tongue Lengths graph, to display |
Explore | 20–30 min | Partners choose one of four Animal Data Tables and make observations about the data. Partners then create a data display that communicates what they think is most interesting in the data. |
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Discuss | 15+ min | Students do a gallery walk of the data displays others have created and leave sticky notes with observations and questions. The class discusses what different displays communicate and what makes a data display interesting. | Small sticky notes |