Jo Boaler's book Mathematical Mindsets has had a significant impact on my teaching. After reading her book, I dove deeper into teaching math through inquiry and ensuring I was giving the mental strategies they need as well as the thinking skills they need to solve problems.
In an ever changing world, technology has had a enormous impact on how people understand and apply math in the world today. Below are some examples to demonstrate what math looks like in my classroom! |
These are two examples of grade 3 students reflection about how they are going to apply a growth mindset in math. Creating an environment of growth mindset, in math has had many positive effects on my classroom. Students have become more apt to choose a question that will challenge them when given the opportunity to choose from a range of questions that vary in difficulty and they are more supportive and cooperative with each other.
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Students are always up for a challenge. After introducing students to a variety of different strategies to help them with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, having them express their understanding through posters.
The success criteria for the posters included:
After students created their posters, the students who had made posters to the same strategy got together to choose to most effect poster, that we would put up on our math wall as a point of reference for that strategy. |
Math Talk happens every Friday. This is designed to give students the opportunity to challenge themselves by applying what we are learning in class to open-ended, and real-world problems. Sometimes the questions are created by me, and sometimes they are questions overheard in class throughout the week. The purpose of Math Talk is for students to challenge themselves to be able to make their thinking visible and learn how to use mathematical language to explain their reasoning.