Math Practice #1

This spreadsheet provides the links to specific tasks, a suggested question to investigate, and proposed aligned standards, including the math practice standards.

This site offers a set of four graphics, numbers, shapes, and other sets, prompting students to decide "which one doesn't belong" and to justify their choice(s).

This section of The Learning Network  provides resources for teaching science and math using New York Times content.

This sheet includes a comprehensive list including mathematics tasks/prompts such as:  Would You Rather; Agree or Disagree; Estimation 180; Visual Patterns...and many, many more.

The Right Question Institute offers resources on the Question Formulation Technique, which helps students develop better questions, including questions about texts. Math-specific resources are available.

This site provides lessons and summative assessment tasks from the Shell Center / Mathematics Assessment Resource Service.

"Challenging math problems worth solving"! Tasks allow multiple paths toward solutions.

This page provides a collection of non-routine problems for grades 3 to 12.  See the archive of problems toward the bottom of the page for additional practice items.

This guide assists educators in analyzing tasks to determine if they do in fact provide higher-level cognitive demands.

This website from Stanford University supports the work of Jo Boaler and Cathy Humphries as they work with parents, students, and teachers to change mathematics learning for the better. Check out the "tasks and more" tab for TASKS, Week of Inspirational Math, and Data Talks.

This site contains FREE high-quality units and lessons for K-HS that are full of cognitively demanding mathematics tasks.

This site includes a collection of artifacts and examples of mathematical patterns expressed in a number of ways from varied cultures encouraging users to connect the artifacts/patterns to the underlying mathematics.

Research suggests that the simple instructional technique of having students study examples of problem solutions and explain targeted correct or incorrect steps in the example improves students’ conceptual knowledge without sacrificing procedural skill. MathByExample gives students ways to practice.

This blog offers a wealth of graphics and questions to provoke mathematical thinking, reasoning, conversation, and justification.

From Ector County (TX) Independent School District, this Google doc (teachers will be asked to make a copy) is jam-packed with sources for problems and scenarios of the type DLE #1 promotes.  BONUS - It includes a master list of math virtual manipulatives.

This book from NCTM contains lessons (23 in a launch-summary-explore structure) which explain how to teach mathematics for self- and community-empowerment, using mathematics as a tool for exploring, understanding, and responding to issues of social injustice.

"Since 2013, Instructional Specialists from New Visions, along with math teachers from across our network of schools, have developed a strong scope and sequence for Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II, along with a rich set of curated and created  resources for teaching these courses."  These tasks are now archived.  Use the menu to access the "Algebra I Archive" and the "Geometry and Algebrr II Archive".

This resource is a gateway to the very best in Project Based Learning. Here, teachers will find a growing set of resources to help them design and implement powerful learning in their classrooms, including planning tools, rubrics, student handouts, student materials, and more. Registration is free.

This video, housed on the Disciplinary Literacy for Deeper Learning MOOC channel, features Dr. Krupa from Montclair State University as she discusses inquiry-based disciplinary literacy in mathematics.

While the examples provided are applicable to secondary math and science classrooms, all educators can be inspired to begin a unit of study with short inquiry tasks to spark student curiosity.