Mathematical Mindsets
What do we call the brain's plasticity?
This small group instruction is an integral part of math workshop.
What is guided math?
When we introduce a new topic, concept, or skill, we must begin by developing this deeply.
What is conceptual understanding?
A short, daily exercise that builds mental math capabilities.
What is a number talk?
Whole numbers from 1 and up. Some teachers say these are the "counting numbers."
What are natural numbers?
What are mistakes?
These different activities allow students to engage in math(like writing in a math journal or playing a game) while the teacher works with small groups of students.
What are math stations?
What are multiple representations?
This is what we should have students working on in small groups to get them engaged quickly.
What are vertical, erasable surfaces?
Debt, below-zero temperatures, and below sea level are all examples of this.
What is a negative number?
The perspective that we can learn more and that we weren't born with all the skill we're ever going to have.
What is a growth mindset?
What is flexible grouping?
When we only work with numbers on the page with no context or deeper conceptual understanding, we are said to be working in what?
What is the abstract?
This is the best way to randomly group our students.
What are playing cards?
Greatest common factor.
Being able to interact flexibly and conceptually with numbers.
What is number sense?
These posters offer students reminders of behavioral expectations, processes, and steps in solving problems.
What is an anchor chart?
Using manipulatives helps to develop this part of the CRA learning process.
What is the concrete or conceptual understanding?
The ability to know what pairs of numbers add to 10.
What is subitizing?
A comparison of two quantities, such as the number of students who play on a sports team to the number of students who don't.
What is a ratio?
This fires in your brain when you learn something.
What is a synapse?
This is when students develop the ability to work independently within the math workshop model.
What are the first 20 days of school?
If I have conceptual understanding of a skill and can represent it in multiple ways, I am likely ready for this.
What is the abstract or working just with numbers?
Using these types of tasks allows all students to be able to do them but also allows students to keep working on more or more complex solutions.
What are low floor-high ceiling tasks?
An example of a nonlinear function where the input variable (x) is squared.
What is a quadratic function?