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Focusing on the Fundamentals- A Teacher’s Guide recognizes that the concepts of numbers and operations form the basis of the mathematics that we teach and learn.
Becoming highly skilled at arithmetic requires the development of number sense alongside procedural and factual knowledge as well as the mathematical principles that govern how the operations are related to one another.
-Bruce & Chang, 2013, p. 14, citing Baroody & Dowker, 2003, quoted in “Focusing on the Fundamentals of Math – A Teacher’s Guide,” p.1This is our second year of working with the Focusing on the Fundamentals of Math: A Teacher's Guide. You may see connections to the work that you have already been doing, however; it is important to reflect on the intention behind this work.
Questions for discussion:
Questions for discussion:
- What is guiding our work?
- What small moves can we make in our work to ensure we are heading in the right direction toward mastery?
- How might number and operations become an integrated part of our teaching across all strands?
Focusing on the Fundamentals of Math teacher_guide_math_en.pdf
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