Math Is More Than Luck April 9, 2015

Yes, the Right Answer is Important… But the Thinking Behind the Math is More Important.

Common Core Standards  Developing understanding of multiplication and division and strategies for multiplication and division within 100  Developing understanding of fractions, especially unit fractions (fractions with numerator 1)  Developing understanding of the structure of rectangular arrays and area  Describing and analyzing two-dimensional shapes

Standards for Mathematical Practice  Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.  Reason abstractly and quantitatively.  Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.  Model with mathematics.  Use appropriate tools strategically.  Attend to precision.  Look for and make use of structure.  Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Addition and Subtraction  Change problems – JOIN and SEPARATE  PART PART WHOLE problems  COMPARE Problems

Multiplication and Division  EQUAL GROUPS problems  AREA problems  COMBINATION problems  COMPARISON problems

Multiplication and Division Within 100  Equal-sized groups, arrays and area models  Finding the unknown factor or product with single digit factors  Properties of Operations  Using a variety of solutions strategies  Understanding that multiplication and division are inverse operations

Math Fluency Is Just as Important as Reading Fluency

Rectangular Arrays and Area  Measure the area of two dimensional by covering the shape with squares without gaps or overlaps  Rectangular arrays can be decomposed into rows and columns  Justify using Multiplication to determine the area of a rectangle.

Areas of Space Down on the Farm Project, Designing Rooms, Map Skills

Math Mania Use this page on my website as a resource for some of the best websites Study Jams, iXL, Kahn Academy, jmathpage, Math Playground

Fractions  View Unit Fractions as the Building Blocks  Visual Fraction Models to represent parts of a whole  Size of the fractional part is relative to the size of the whole (1/2 of one item could be smaller than 1/6 of another item)  Represent numbers equal to, less than and greater than one  Using a number line to represent a fraction of 1

Fractions and Food Hersheys, Twizzlers, Cookies, Pizza

Two-Dimensional Shapes  Describe, Compare, Analyze properties of two-dimensional shapes  Compare and classify sides, angles and other attributes  Express the area of part of a shape as a unit fraction of the whole

Geometry in Our World Keynote Photograph Project, Artwork, Discovering Attributes with Manipulatives