Coaching InstituteSummer 2012

5/6 Content & PedagogyTracy Sola & Mariana Alwell

Welcome ~ “Bula”

Please take a card and find the table with the number line that matches the value of your card.

Feel free to discuss your card’s value with other participants.

When you have found your number line, sit anywhere at that table and introduce yourself to your table team. Name, school, grade level, reason for coming to

this institute, etc.

Today’s Agenda

• Equivalent Fraction Cards

• ELL focus Harold Asturias

• Fraction folding

• Community Agreements and Norms

• Fractions about Us

• Number Talk

• CCSS for Mathematical Practice

• Reflection and Feedback

Fraction Folding

If the white strip is a whole, what fractional part is the colored piece?

If the colored piece is the whole, what is the value of the white strip?

If the white strip is equal to 2 1/2, what is the value of the colored strip?

Our Community of Teachers and Learners

What is our community?

Why do we have norms for our work together? What is their purpose?

Why do we use norms with students?

Take a few minutes and think quietly about these questions.

Share your thoughts with your table group.

Community Agreements and Norms

No one is as smart as all of us are together”

• Respect

• Individual think time

• Everyone participates

• Everybody helps

• Leave no one behind

• Take responsibilityThe Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative

Math Assessment Collaborative

Content Student

Teacher

Learning

• helpful because it helped me to realize that when I try to help someone I might not actually be helping them”

• “helpful because having them helps us students figure a way to work with each other and understand each other”

• “great because people had time to think and cooperate in groups”

• “awesome because it reminded me of how to treat other people”

• “helpful because it was easier for me to work.”

Community Agreements and Norms

are…

Fractions about Us

Discuss various attributes of your table group:

hair color, glasses, gender, height, etc.

Make 5 true fraction statements about your group.

You should use fractions, mixed numbers, percentages, and decimals, if possible.

Put your statements on the poster paper.

Be prepared to share.

Number Talks

There are a variety of formats/topics for number talks: Dots, true/false, operations, single number,

number strings

Beginning with dots lowers the status around math ability and provides access for everyone.

Guidelines: Quiet think time, thumb at chest when ready,

listen to others’ ideas, respond/disagree politely

How Many Dots?

How Did You See Them?

How Many Dots?

How Did You See Them?

Reflection & Feedback

On one side of the index card for the large group:

1-2 things you learned or appreciated

anything you would like changed

On the other side do the same for the 5/6 group.