Participants will develop a deep understanding of how five research-based strategies (ask yourself questions, sentence frames and starters, annotation, the Four R’s, and turn-and-talks) can be used to help students with learning disabilities develop mathematical thinking. They will learn about six accessibility areas (conceptual processing, visual-spatial processing, language, attention, organization, and memory) math learners must use when doing mathematics. They will see how the essential strategies support students as they work in each of the accessibility areas by engaging in an instructional routine designed to develop mathematical thinking. Participants coalesce their learnings as they apply the course ideas to draft IEP goals that focus on students’ mathematical thinking.
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Oct 6 - Nov 30, 2021
2 recorded synchronous sessions, Oct 27th and Nov 9th 7-8 pm Eastern
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Typically we provide just one visual, but in this task set we played with providing three terms of a visual pattern. The annotation remains the same on each of the three terms so students can key in on the way the chunks grow, or do not grow.
I did this task today with my students and left out the representation for 3(n+1) +3. After the students matched the other two expressions with two pictures, I had them draw a representation for the lonely expression. It went really well! When I do it again next year though, I’ll have the W pattern already printed out for the students so it is easier for them to then just show the representation by grouping, circling, moving, etc. It was a hard pattern for them to draw. I watched Amy model a “Connecting Representations” task in Delaware 2 weeks ago, so I modeled after her. It went really well!!!
Sounds like it went well! I agree that drawing the representation is tedious, and annotating a copy of it is more effective. Grace and I typically recommend that you provide one copy per partnership so that students continue to work together rather than transitioning to individual work. Please keep us posted as you test-drive additional tasks. These reflections are so valuable for others as they implement. Thank you!