Videos

Getting the most out of a common math game...

How to take a common math game, and turn it into a learning engagement driven by mathematical thinking, visualizing understanding, and ultimately serve as a provocation into probability.

Agency, Inquiry, and Mental Models

How do we embed agency and support students in appreciating mathematical diversity and flexible thinking, when building mental models? This inquiry process and routine did just that…. Check it out!

Guiding Questions & Tetris

Games are provocations! How to build mathematical thinking and support students to uncover mathematical concepts through guiding questions.

From thinking routine to student-driven inquiry

How to harness a visual provocation and Project Zero's 'connect, extend, challenge' thinking routine to create a long form, student-driven inquiry process.

Igniting the process of learning, without prescribing a product.

This inquiry process was all about personalization, connection, and the metacognitive skills needed to pursue ideas and learn.

A math inquiry cycle...

Follow along as I unpack a math learning wall and how we documented our class' inquiry cycle.

Symmetry, Angles, and Measurement

Using Project Zero's thinking routine 'the complexity scale' with a visual provocation led to some great thinking and learning.

Scaling

These visual provocations and thinking routines aim to cultivate a genuine connection between curiosity, mathematical reasoning, and problem-solving, encouraging students to approach mathematical concepts through an inquiry and creative lens.

Order of Operations

Think-Pair-Share into contextually-driven understandings of order of operations!

Linear sequences

Try this thinking routine with a great visual provocation!

Visual provocations drive learning of volume and dimensions

Visual provocations to support conceptual, mathematical thinking when learning about volume.

Uncovering algebra

How does running a business reveal the algebra hiding in your numbers?

I'm trying something new... this Year I'll be uploading short videos to share some of my favorite thinking routines & Provocations to use in the Math classroom!