20 10, 2020

Act Like a Child: How to Promote Curiosity

2023-08-23T21:05:19+00:00

In this article you will learn…

  • That to support all students and make learning equitable, the academic environment needs to recognize, teach, and support behaviors that promote curiosity.
  • The classroom and teacher must make specific behaviors known to all students, acknowledge when students are exhibiting these behaviors, and nurture these behaviors in order to advance learning.
  • The strategies for promoting curiosity that can be used successfully at any grade level.
Act Like a Child: How to Promote Curiosity2023-08-23T21:05:19+00:00
24 08, 2020

Building Math Metacognition in Three Easy Steps

2023-09-20T23:40:15+00:00

In this article you will learn:

  • Why mathematics standards were intentionally designed with two types: Standards for Mathematical Content and Standards for Mathematical Practice.
  • Building metacognition in math can be achieved when teachers understand and integrate the content and practice standards, determine the grade-level progressions of the practice standards, and support students to use these practices on a daily basis through direct conversations about math.
  • It is imperative that we teach our students to think like mathematicians by asking questions that foster metacognition and teach them to speak like mathematicians when making ownership statements that demonstrate that they are actively integrating both cognitive and metacognitive skills, both mathematical content and mathematical practice.
Building Math Metacognition in Three Easy Steps2023-09-20T23:40:15+00:00
17 08, 2020

Teaching Kids to Speak Like Mathematicians

2023-09-20T23:47:13+00:00

In this article you will learn:

  • Language plays a critical role in learning mathematics because students are expected to use specialized vocabulary.
  • The teacher’s role is to show students how to articulate their thinking using specialized vocabulary in mathematics.
  • It is imperative that we teach our students to think like mathematicians by asking questions that foster metacognition and teach them to speak like mathematicians when making ownership statements that demonstrate that they are actively integrating both cognitive and metacognitive skills, both mathematical content and mathematical practice.
Teaching Kids to Speak Like Mathematicians2023-09-20T23:47:13+00:00
10 08, 2020

Teaching Kids to Think Like Mathematicians

2023-11-30T01:20:11+00:00

In this article you will learn:

  • Providing students with questions to foster metacognition helps them expand their thinking, develop metacognitive skills, and become more aware of their own strengths and weaknesses.
  • The Questions to Foster Metacognition can be thought of as “what teachers should be asking”—or, more accurately, ideas teachers can use to support students’ metacognition in grade appropriate ways. These questions should be modeled by the teacher and then gradually handed over to the students themselves.
  • It is imperative that we teach our students to think like mathematicians by asking questions that foster metacognition and teach them to speak like mathematicians when making ownership statements that demonstrate that they are actively integrating both cognitive and metacognitive skills, both mathematical content and mathematical practice.
Teaching Kids to Think Like Mathematicians2023-11-30T01:20:11+00:00
3 08, 2020

The Mathematical Practices Are the Metacognition Our Kids Need

2023-11-30T01:11:47+00:00

In this article you will learn:

  • Mathematical metacognition in the classroom is essential for the development of problem-solving skills.
  • Fostering metacognition requires a balance of explicit instruction, teacher modeling, student-centered exploration, and responsive coaching. This approach helps students initially learn the types of questions and thought processes they can apply, enabling them to progressively use these skills autonomously.
  • Mathematics instruction must simultaneously develop conceptual understanding, computational fluency, and problem-solving skills and teaching the Standards for Mathematical Practice can support this development.
The Mathematical Practices Are the Metacognition Our Kids Need2023-11-30T01:11:47+00:00