Grade 2

Cooking up Arrays

Debra Rawlins, Natasha Hernandez, and William Miller

Click the link above to see how second graders move from counting by ones to counting equal groups to structuring arrays.

FOR GRADE LEVEL PLC's Grades K-12

Noticing and Wondering to Guide Professional Conversations

Click the link above to explore how teachers can use the sentence stems “I notice” and “I wonder” to deepen professional conversations with colleagues, both in person and in online spaces.

Grades K-12

The Area Model:

Alyson E. Lischka and D. Christopher Stephens

Click the link above to see multiple examples of using area models from the foundational in primary to quadratics and derivatives in upper secondary. Complete with visuals and explanations.

Materials: PHET Interactive Simulations and Number Pieces from the The Math Learning Center are just a couple of web based and app manipulatives to use in your remote instruction (Free).

Grade 6

Using Scratch Programing to Explore Coordinates:

Erell Germia and Nicole Panorkau

Click the link above to see how Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for life in the 21st century.

Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. It is provided free of charge. “With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community.

Grade 7

Conditional Reasoning online with Mastermind:

Sean P. Yee, George J. Roy, and LuAnn Graul

Click the link above to see how students identify and justify mathematical conditions by reasoning and explaining weather a term is odd or even using a well known app, Mastermind.

Mastermind (Free Apps available or online version on NCTM) This is a popular strategy board game of code breaking that was invented in 1970 and includes substantial mathematical reasoning necessary in developing proofs (Ellis 2011). In Mastermind, players attempt to break a code of colors using small pegs, with feedback given at each conjecture.

Grade 7 Project Based Instruction

Roller Coasters and Quadratic Equations

Sarah Ferguson, Thomas Johnston, Christopher Karhan, and Eric Lefevbre

Students explore the relationship between thrill-seeking rides and their algebra 1 curriculum in an informative, engaging, student-centered lesson that was designed using a project-based-instruction (PBI) framework.