Math Studio survey- HOMEWORK on Saturday!

What connections are you seeing between your implementation of your learning during Studio and your students' understanding and achievement in mathematics? Give specific evidence from your everyday classroom observations, conferences with students, formative and summative classroom assessments, and/or standardized testing. 


It gives me the courage to try new things.  Yesterday we were doing the whale's flukes, and it was just automatic for me to want to make a public record of the pattern we saw between how many whales and how many flukes. That took me a long time to become automatic for me.   I also had students remembering how we labeled the crab chart and told me we need to label the parts.  In fact labeling got brought up twice  and I was thrilled!  That means it is becoming automatic for students to think like that  Yeah!!

I constantly think about select and sequencing as I move around the room.  We were doing the lobster problem solving and I kept remembering how Jill would look for someone to get it started, so other students would have a jumping off place.  Plus looking for multiple representations, so students can see there is more than one way to do a problem.

I also collected the data from the lobster problems to see how they were thinking.  I made a point to look at them the same day while it was fresh.  It was discouraging to see how few really get it.  Perseverance!  I think it will take multiple times doing this to get results.


15. Finally, are there particular teaching ideas, Mathematical Habits­of­Mind/Interaction, Mathematically Productive Teaching Routines, and/or specific practices embedded in those routines that you hope are addressed during the upcoming Studio? Please list those below. 



Refresh. Refresh.  Refresh.  If I was a computer I would say hit the old refresh button.  I can't pick out just one. 


But since I have never tried the math seminar I need to do that, though it gives me a sinking feeling in my heart because I know it means Teena will be in my room soon and it will be HARD work and probably painful.  Yep gird up those loins-ha!  Gird up the brain and go forth into battle against my self crippling mental self perceptions about myself and math.