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Effective and Engaging
Mathematics Instruction
      West Virginia Virtual Forum

               August 2020

Which
  One
Doesn’t
Belong?

          https://wodb.ca/
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Return to the
                           Desmos webpage

                         (student.desmos.com)

Use the code 74CTXP to identify the shape you
believe doesn’t belong and to share your reason.

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https://wodb.ca/
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Principles for the
 Teaching and Learning of Mathematics
As Schools Plan For/Begin the 2020-2021 School Year (and Beyond)

  What do you believe should be among the
  overarching principles that guide your
  own planning for teaching and learning?

       Enter your thoughts in the Chatbox.

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Principles for the
  Teaching and Learning of Mathematics
As Schools Plan For/Begin the 2020-2021 School Year (and Beyond)

• Create communities of learners     • Focus on ongoing asset-based
  that trust, believe in, and rely     formative assessment practices
  upon one another by supporting       that leverage students’
  every student.                       understanding.

• Plan learning around grade-        • Commit to effective mathematics
  level mathematics for all            instruction for all students
  students through empowering          regardless of potential changes
  learning experiences.                in school structure.

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Return to the Desmos webpage
for a mental well-being check
 and to begin a 3-Act Task.

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Mathematical Habits of Mind

1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving
   them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning
   of others.
4. Model with mathematics.
5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Return to the
        Desmos webpage.

 Identify Mathematical Habits of
Mind addressed in the 3-Act Task.

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Updates to math4life website

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Bold School Framework

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• Eight research-based effective
                Mathematics Teaching
                Practices no matter the format
                for instruction - face-to-face,
                blended, or remote.

              • Strategies for teachers to
                engage students in
                mathematical thinking,
                reasoning, and sense making
  NCTM          to significantly strengthen
Publication     teaching and learning.

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Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices

1. Establish mathematical goals to focus learning.
2. Implement tasks that promote reasoning and problem
   solving.
3. Use and connect mathematical representations.
4. Facilitate meaningful mathematical discourse.
5. Pose purposeful questions.
6. Build procedural fluency from conceptual
   understanding.
7. Support productive struggle in learning mathematics.
8. Elicit and use evidence of student thinking.

Return to the
       Desmos webpage.

 Identify Effective Mathematics
Teaching Practices evident in the
          3-Act Task.

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Updates to math4life website
• Professional Learning

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Updates to math4life website
• Grade Specific Resources

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Cindy Burke and Joseph Mastracci

          Coordinators
 Office of Middle and Secondary
             Learning
       caburke@k12.wv.us
     jmastracci@k12.wv.us

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