Mathematics
Students:
-
Engage with varied challenging tasks that support deep learning
-
Connect authentic, real-world experiences with mathematical understandings and prior knowledge to solve a variety of problems
-
Acquire conceptual and procedural knowledge/fluency
-
Productively struggle with ideas and tasks
-
Transfer and apply newly learned concepts and skills
-
Construct new ideas socially, through discourse, activity and interaction
-
Develop metacognitive awareness of themselves as learners, thinkers and problem solvers
-
Use and connect both physical and visual mathematical representations
-
Receive clear, thorough and timely feedback
Lessons and Assignments are:
-
Research and standards based
-
Student focused
-
Culturally responsive
-
Authentic and frequently designed around student interests and suggestions
-
Creative
-
Physically active
-
Written to include use or creation of manipulative and models
-
Rigorous
-
Engaging and enjoyable
-
Adaptive
-
Open ended
-
Flexible
-
Collaborative implemented, critiqued, and improved