1. Mathematical Rigor?

2. Outcomes Participants will:
Make connections between the Student’s Standards of Mathematical Practices and the Effective High- Leverage Instructional Teaching Practices for Mathematics.
Identify the differences between rigorous and non-rigorous mathematical tasks.

3. Defining Rigor in Math Fluency: Efficient and Flexible
Deep Understanding:
Conceptual
Application:
Real World Context
Handout 1.

4. Think about it….
Effective teaching is the non-negotiable core that ensures that all students learn mathematics at high rigorous levels.
NCTM Principles to Actions, 2014

5. Remember the Math Practice Standards?
Student
Math Practices
8 Standards for Mathematical Practice
Look Fors
for Teachers…
Handout 2

6. Activity
What is one non-negotiable practice every teacher must demonstrate effectively? Make a foldable. As a table group identify your top eight teacher practices. Write one in each box of the foldable.

7. Mathematics Teaching Practices
There are Eight Mathematics Teaching Practices which provide a framework for strengthening the teaching and learning of mathematics. This research-informed framework of teaching and learning reflects the principles of learning, that provide the foundation for effective mathematics teaching. These Eight Mathematics Teaching Practices, represent a core set of high- leverage practices and essential teaching skills necessary to promote deep learning of mathematics. Principles to Actions, 2014 p.9

8. 8 Teaching Standards for Mathematical Practice
8 Effective High-Leverage Instructional Teaching Practices for Mathematics
Establish mathematics goals to focus learning
Implement tasks that promote reasoning and problem solving
Use and connect mathematical representations
Facilitate meaningful mathematical discourse
Pose purposeful questions
Build procedural fluency from conceptual understanding
Support productive struggle in learning mathematics
Elicit and use evidence of student thinking
8 Teaching Standards for Mathematical Practice
Handout 3

9. Which classroom is providing rigor?

10. What does rigor look like in the classroom?
A Rigorous Environment
Rigorous Assignments
In a rigorous learning environment, educators exhibit a greater concern for quality rather than quantity as well as conceptual thinking rather than memorization.
Math Teaching Practices
Rigor is not characterized by more work, but more meaningful work that is intellectually challenging and thought provoking to the age of the child.
Math Student Practices
Rigor and Engagement for Growing Minds, Bertie Kingore (2013)

11. Study the following assignment. Does this look familiar
Study the following assignment. Does this look familiar? Where is the rigor in this assignment or task?
Handout 4

12. This is a rigorous math assignment for comparing and ordering fractions. Study the following assignment. How is it different from your typical compare and order worksheet? What makes this a rigorous assignment or task?
Handout 4 Not more stuff, but deeper thinking.

13. Student Evidence
Study the explanations given for the fraction chosen in each pair. What evidence from the student’s work proves this was a rigorous assignment?
What makes this a rigorous assignment or task?
This
Handout 5

14. Increasing rigor….. Friday Night Football
3 5
of Central High students attend the football game.
3 4
of South High students attend the football game.
Model the following situations….
a) More Central students attend the game than South.
b) More South students attend the game than Central.
c) The same number of students from Central and South
attend the game.

15. Reflect about Rigor …. True or False
Rigor is scaffolding student’s thinking.
Rigor is harder worksheets.
Rigorous instructional tasks must always have a real-world context.
Mathematical reasoning is a component of rigor.
Rigor is providing higher grade content.

16. Next Steps What is working? What is not working?
What do I want to do to make it work better?
What support do I still need?

17. Resources