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Upper Elementary Math
Three Things to Keep in Mind:
US Teaching Culture and PracticeProblem Solving as an Instructional ToolBig Math Concepts Need Time and Exploration
US Math Texts and Teaching
Tend toward procedural instruction (TIMSS)
Give more worksheets than most other countries (TIMSS)
Cover too many topics in a given year (breadth rather than depth)
Teachers may be less mathematically versed than in other countries (Ma)
Problem Solving as an Instructional Method
Teaching Problems and the Problems of Teaching, Magdalene Lampert
Automatically differentiated, if the problem is rich enough
Requires mathematical proof, reasoning, and communication
Ways to do this: word problems (daily book); rich problems (NCTM)
Problem Solving Example from Lesson Study at Highlands
Quick demo on this problem:
0 1/10X
Big Math Concepts that Need Deep Exploration in Early Elementary School
Zero/ place markers in base systems Equals and Equivalence The Many Names for a Number Properties: associative, commutative,
distributive, zero Representations for amounts: number line,
pie graphs, hundred charts, sets, etc. Many more I am sure I have not
explored/discovered
My Favorite Places to Go for More Information
Teaching Problems and the Problems of Teaching, Magdalene Lampert
Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics, Liping Ma
NCTM Illuminations National Library of Virtual
Manipulatives
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