Goal: Think like a mathematician! Looking for repetition in the way you build, then generalize the regularity.
Source: Pattern #46 on www.VisualPatterns.org
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Tue07Jan2020Wed08Jan20208:30 am - 3:00 pmSEEM Collaborative, Stoneham MA
Essential Strategies for Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities to Think Mathematically
This two-day course will provide teachers with 4 research-based strategies to teach students with learning disabilities how to think and reason mathematically. Participants will leave: Understanding what it looks like when students reason mathematically – quantitatively, structurally, and through repetition. Knowing 4 essential strategies to engage students, support their development of mathematical thinking, and develop independence. Ready to support each and every learner to develop as mathematicians.
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We did this as our second lesson (following Eric the sheep). I gave the students both 1 cm grid paper as well as unified cubes to build and represent. Most students could build before they could explain. Some gravitated toward the graphic representation first. Many students recognized the repetition quickly~and this was a helpful exercise to talk about generalizing the repetition. Meta reflections were stronger than before, with a few outliers.