Minnesota Council of Teachers of Mathematics

MCTM Duluth Conference 2018

Resources for Elementary Math Teachers

From the session ‘5 Ways Elementary Teachers can Support Learning in Secondary’

Laura Wagenman email: wagenmanl@district279.org twitter: @laura_wagenman

Sara VanDerWerf email: saravdw@gmail.com  twitter: @saravdwerf  blog: saravanderwerf.com

1)  Estimating/Sense Making

• Estimation 180
• 3-Act Tasks
• Numberless Word Problems
• Between Two Numbers
• Notice and Wonder video Annie Fetter
• Estimating - Making Sense of Things blog post by Mark Chubb

• First Grade Tales from a Former High School Teacher by Megan Schmidt

2)  Flexibility with Numbers

• Number Talk Images
• Daily Number Talks
• Number Strings by Tedd.org
• Number Strings
• Number Talk Strings Padlet
• Rational Number Project
• Choral Counting

3) Visual Representation

• Visual Patterns
• Math Visuals 
• Clothesline Math
• Graham Fletcher’s progression videos
• Same or Different

4) Questioning

• 101 Questions
• Notice and Wonder Resources
• The Art of Questioning by NCTM
• Max Ray-Riek: Why 2 is Greater Than 4
• Never Say Anything a Kid Can Say
• Teacher Prompts to Promote Discourse and Understanding Posters
• NCTM 2018 “Engaging Students in Seeing Structure” by Sara Van Der Werf
• The Slow Reveal by Brian Bushart, Numberless Graphs

5) Justifying, Convincing, Defending

• Which One Doesn’t Belong
• Would You Rather Math
• Convince Me That
• True/False Equations
• Same or Different
• Nrich: Always, Sometimes, Never
• Fawn Nguyen Blog: Always, Sometimes, Never
• Always, Sometimes, Never Elementary
• Levels of Convincing by Robert Kaplinsky

6) Low Floor, High Ceiling Tasks

• Open Middle
• Illustrative Mathematics
• YouCubed
• Yummy Math
• Robert Kaplinsky Lessons
• Inside Mathematics: Problem of the Month
• [Fake World] Beats Curriculum by Dan Meyer

Other Resources

• Games for young minds - Website for parents to spend 20 minutes a day doing math with their kids through games.
• Nix the Tricks - a free downloadable book every teacher should read
• 12 Rules that Expire - a quick article from NCTM - so great.
• My Fav Places to go to Find Rich Math Tasks created by Margie Pearse @pearse_margie & Lane Walker @LaneWalker
• Rational Number Project: Initial Fraction Ideas
• Rational Number Project: Fraction Operations and Initial Decimal Ideas

Videos

• Graham Fletcher’s progression videos
• Annie Fetter: Ever Wonder What They’d Notice
• Max Ray-Riek: Why 2 is Greater Than 4
• Same or Different? Teaching Channel

People to Follow on Twitter

Tracy Zager @TracyZager

Graham Fletcher @gfletchy

Mark Chubb @MarkChubb3

Marilyn Burns @mburnsmath

Brian Bushard @bstockus

Kristin Gray @MathMinds

Kent Haines @KentHaines

Christopher Danielson @Trianglemancsd

Annie Fetter @MFAnnie

Estimation 180 @estimation180

Which One Doesn’t Belong @WODBMath

Open Middle @openmiddle

Hashtags to Follow on Twitter

#elemmathchat Thursdays at 8:00 pm, CST

#numbertalk

#wodb

#samedifferent

#noticewonder

#numberlesswp

Technology

• Desmos for Elementary
• Tech Resources from Tracy Zager’s Blog