Partner up with a teacher or teacher team and get ready for an exciting exploration of math teaching and learning where teachers and students experience the joy of engaging in rigorous mathematics.
Your compass is the Math Solutions' Instructional Practices Inventory (IPI), a framework for strengthening mathematics instruction.
It comprises thirty-three teacher and student practices organized into four broad categories essential to effective mathematics teaching and learning: 1.
Learning Environment 2.
Reasoning and Sense Making 3.
Focus and Coherence 4.
Formative Assessment The MathVentures process uniquely involves choosing a specific focus from the IPI and then planning, implementing, and evaluating a classroom investigation around this focus.
Follow the journeys of any of thirty-three teacher-coach partnerships as they navigate their investigations of specific teacher or student practices.
Then, map out your own MathVenture through six action-oriented steps: Step 1.
Understand the Practice Step 2.
Determine the Investigation Question, Classroom Data to Collect, and Collection Process Step 3.
Choose a Student Learning Goal and Teacher Action to Reach That Goal Step 4.
Integrate Professional Learning Experiences Step 5.
Implement Teacher Action and Collect Data Step 6.
Analyze and Reflect on Classroom Data Connects to and includes access to 8 video classroom clips drawn from some of Math Solutions' all-time favorite publications, from Number Talks to Talk Moves .
About author(s): Sue Chapman is a university instructor and a professional learning consultant.
She has served students and other math learners in the roles of teacher, coach, administrator, and teacher educator for more than forty years.
Sue is particularly passionate about building capacity in others through coaching and mindset awareness.
Mary Mitchell is an instructional designer and math coach.
For more than twenty years, she has supported students, teachers, coaches and administrators across the country.
Mary appreciates connecting to her roots as an elementary classroom teacher and math coach to collaborate with teachers to build students into budding mathematicians.
| Learning | 1 |
|---|---|
| Mathventure through six action-oriented steps | Step 1 |
| About author(s) | Sue |
Math Solutions Publications Mathventures: 33 teacher-coach investigations to grow students as mathematicians, grades k-6: a coaching guide featuring math solutions' instructional/sue chapman
