Framework
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- developed by Surrey Schools
- materials from Youcubed. These are based on the work of Dr. Jo Boaler from Stanford and her book . The site has lots of good information, tasks and routines.
Routines (Daily or Weekly)
- The Thinking Classroom – This approach developed by Dr. Peter Liljedahl at SFU uses Vertical Non-Permanent Surfaces (#vnps) and Visible Random Groupings (#vrg) to engage students in rich mathematical tasks.
- Number Talks (5-15 minute classroom conversations around math concepts)
- Estimation
- – Short visual routines to uncover estimation riddles
- – a collection of 180 estimation problems
- – site based on the by the same name. also available.
- – Different numbers of dots are hidden and the students have to figure out how many are hiding
Tasks
- Three Act Tasks – promote student thinking and connect math to the real world while focusing on the curricular competencies.
- – Elementary and Middle
- – Elementary and Middle
- – Middle and Secondary
- – K – 2 students
- of a Three Act Task in an elementary class