Miss Younger's Math Musings
The SNAP Math assessment created by the Chilliwack school district provides a framework for assessing discrete math concepts and includes a one-page number sense assessment for each grade level with an accompanying overarching rubric for assessing in k-7. The rubric provides a good framework that is tied to the BC provincial performance standards in math…
I have attached my grade 4 introduction to division unit. With all of my math units I like to focus on conceptual understanding first then move to the applications so my units are fairly slow paced in the beginning then pick up as we move along. I find that my students typically respond well to…
I chose to create my Pinterest board focusing on number sense. Number sense routines are something I do daily with my students and that provide a lot of opportunity for students who may not normally engage in mathematical discussions to engage. My goal when choosing number sense activities is to pick Low Threshold High Ceiling…
I often use exit tickets in my classroom. I don’t typically use digital ones as I don’t have enough devices for this to be effective. Typically my exit tickets are on post its or student white boards. My students answer the question on their white boards and leave the board on their desks when they…
The lesson plan below uses an adaptation of Shelly Moore’s planning page. I really like her levels of participation for her success criteria and that there is something for everyone in that. I think the language in the “I need to, I must, I can, I could, I can try to” really gives students a…
I have created a presentation on how to create inquiry units. The presentation reflects my process and how I would present it in a workshop to other teachers. This presentation also sums up my learning over the past several weeks showing how I have deepened my understanding of using inquiry as a tool to get…
I have created a single point rubric using student friendly language for our Who HQ project. Who HQ is a grade wide project where each student picks a person featured in the Who Was book series and spends most of second term learning about them before we present our “living museum” where students dress up…
This is something I would like to include in my BC Coast unit as something we would work on as part of our inquiry process getting to know the coast. I have included my teacher planning as well as what I would give to my students, typically with my class I would model the steps…
I’ve also used the adaptation Brenda offered to do this task as my summer school program is not lending itself well to this assignment. I have chosen to look at a read aloud lesson I would typically do during my Salish Sea and Great Bear Rainforest. For the criteria and developing good questions I looked…
