FAACT Road Map


Instructional materials for FAACT are organized into four main sections.

01. Learning Trajectories

  • Provides teachers with detailed information about the stages of reasoning that comprise the learning trajectory.

  • Written explanations and work samples provided to support teachers’ understanding of the trajectory stages so they can gauge students’ understandings in the diagnostic tasks.

  • Acts as a tool that teachers use to get a snapshot of a student’s thinking and plan instruction.

02. Diagnostic Fraction Tasks

  • Clinical interview designed as an initial assessment for teachers to use with individual students or small groups settings.

  • Helps teachers determine a student's initial understanding of fractional concepts.

  • Includes guiding questions and a Teacher Noticing Guide to help teachers focus on the components of students’ fractional thinking.

03. Instruction

  • Learning framework

  • Four sets of tasks & representations, prompts, and talk moves aligned to the trajectory that teachers use to plan purposeful, targeted instruction (sample lessons included).

    • First task set: stretches across all trajectory stages and gives further diagnostic information on students' conceptions.

    • Second, third, and fourth task sets: designed to promote a stage of reasoning within the trajectory.

  • Adaptive decision guide supports teachers to make decisions about instruction based on students’ thinking and can aid in providing more personalized instruction.

04. Development Activities

  • Provides resources for teachers who need foundational activities not reflected in the trajectory.

  • Teachers may use the resources to provide opportunities to support students who are still considering number concepts and multiplicative reasoning.

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