Opening Reflection

Consider what learning you've had the opportunity to apply since our last session.

Maybe you spent time focusing on one of Carpenter's Five Principles and tried something in your classroom to bring this principle to life. If so, share what you did and any impact you thought it had, either on you or you students.

Or maybe you took one of the multiplication and division situations (or wrote one of your own) and used it as a diagnostic task, interview or learning activity with one or more students in your classroom. What did you learn? Did you try any next steps to help close any gaps that you might have uncovered? If so, take some time to talk about this with your colleagues.

Or maybe you focused on strengthening student's basic addition and subtraction facts, or their mental computation strategies and tried some of the tasks outlined in the Guide to Effective Instruction. Regardless of what you tried, take this time to reflect back your learning thus far.

• What did you try?
• What did your learn?
• What are you still wondering about?

Record key points from your discussion in the 4.0 Opening Reflection section in your digital handout.