Simple Games To Practice Concentration But with practice, they can learn to concentrate better, which will help them in school. See if your child enjoys these concentration activities: Make a megaphone. Copyright © 2014 Parent Institute Mathematics New York State Mathematics Curriculum Modules for Grades P-12 Connecting the Standards for Mathematical Practice to the Standards for Mathematical Content The Standards for Mathematical Practice describe ways in which developing student practitioners of the discipline of mathematics increasingly ought to engage with the subject matter as they grow in mathematical maturity and expertise throughout the elementary, middle and high school years. Designers of curricula, assessments, and professional development should all attend to the need to connect the mathematical practices to mathematical content in mathematics instruction. The Standards for Mathematical Content are a balanced combination of procedure and understanding.
Activities To Promote Attention, Concentration When your child starts kindergarten, she will have to listen and follow directions, skills she is learning in preschool. But she will also have to concentrate enough to follow through on academic work. Here are some fun activities you can do at home to promote concentration: Show your child a bright, lively picture in a favorite book. Have her look at it for a minute. Copyright © 2014 Parent Institute
Smarter Balanced Assessments The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium is developing a system of valid, reliable, and fair next-generation assessments aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in English language arts/literacy (ELA/literacy) and mathematics for grades 3-8 and 11. The system—which includes both summative assessments for accountability purposes and optional interim assessments for instructional use—will use computer adaptive testing technologies to the greatest extent possible to provide meaningful feedback and actionable data that teachers and other educators can use to help students succeed. Smarter Balanced assessments will go beyond multiple-choice questions to include extended response and technology enhanced items, as well as performance tasks that allow students to demonstrate critical-thinking and problem-solving skills. Performance tasks challenge students to apply their knowledge and skills to respond to complex real-world problems. Assessment System Components Mathematics Guidelines
Improve Memory Skills To Build Attention Span He is trying to sort out so many things that sometimes he can’t handle even one more. You can help your child with this by exercising his memory. Memory is in part a sorting skill. Talk about your day. Copyright © 2014 Parent Institute Achieving by Changing - Home Home Page Teachers Primary Pupils Secondary Students Events and PD "It gave me some good ideas to use in the classroom and ... a link that I can get all of the activities from." Book NRICH Bespoke PDBook Forthcoming EventsBook our Hands-on Roadshow Your Solutions A New Year's Goal: Stop Giving So Much Homework Setting goals, resolutions, or intentions might be on our minds this week. We've probably experienced that "resolutions" don't work -- we don't keep them for more than a week and they just end up making us feel bad about ourselves. So what does work? As a coach, I support teachers and administrators to make behavioral changes in their professional (and sometimes personal) lives. Determine a clear, defined goal that really matters to you (and that will impact student success)Take small steps towards this goalFocus on new actions rather than on trying to avoid old behaviors Goal: Three Hours in the Evening for Myself A year ago, a teacher I coached, let's call her Samantha, had had it with spending every evening grading papers and lesson planning. First, we reflected on what had been working and not working. What wasn't working was the amount of paper-grading she was doing. "What evidence do you have," I asked, "that reviewing the exit tickets is helping your students master this content?"
Grade Eight | Show Me Your Math Teaching > Grade 7 to 9 Curriculum Resources > Grade Eight Algebra Tiles: Students are required to explain, using words and symbols, how a student was able to solve an equation using algebra tiles. Teacher Notes (.doc) (PDF) Student Worksheet (.doc) (PDF) Approximating Square Roots: Students will explore and explain how to find the approximate value of a square root. Teacher Notes (.doc) (PDF) Student Worksheet (.doc) (PDF) Dividing Fractions: Students will divide fractions using symbolic expression and pictorial and/or manipulative expressions. Teacher Notes (.doc) (PDF) Student Worksheet (.doc) (PDF) Explorations for Multiplication and Division: Students will engage with word problems and multiply and divide fractions and mixed numbers. Teacher Notes (.doc) (PDF) Student Worksheet (.doc) (PDF) Fraction Activities: Teacher Notes (.doc) (PDF) Student Worksheet (.doc) (PDF) Fractions, Decimals and Percents: Students will use number squares to find equivalent fractions, decimals and percents values.
Yummy Math | We provide teachers and students with mathematics relevant to our world today … Foldables, Templates, Graphic Organizers, and Downloads This blog page started out as an attempt to organize all of the foldables, templates, and graphic organizers that I have created. When I first started creating them, this method of organization worked well. After all, there weren't that many of them. In a recent attempt to organize my INB resources, I created a pinterest board with links to every single notebook page I have ever done with my students. To view or download each file, please click on the image. Frayer Model (6 to a Page) Integer Operations Work Mat Properties of Equality Graphic Organizer Properties of Real Numbers Mathematician Research Project College Algebra Real Number Line Project Instructions Order of Operations Graphic Organizer Order of Operations Foldable Real Number System Graphic Organizer Blank 4 Door Foldable Blank 3 Door Foldable Slope Intercept Form (y=mx+b) Foldable Plus and Minus Signs for Interactive Notebooks HOY VUX Foldable (Blank 6 Door Foldable!) Interactive Note Booklet over Standard Form of Linear Equations