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Supporting Math Learning: Parental Homework Helpers

Discover essential resources and strategies to guide your child's math education effectively. Learn about changing trends, fostering positive attitudes, and enhancing fluency in math skills. Explore engaging tools and tips to make math meaningful and fun for your child.

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Supporting Math Learning: Parental Homework Helpers

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  1. Helpful Elementary Homework Resources for Parents Nicora Placa January 15, 2014

  2. Agenda • Introduction • Changes in the teaching of mathematics • Shifting Beliefs and Attitudes • Resources • Question and Answer

  3. Overview of Changes

  4. Our goal • Prepare our students so they are career and college ready

  5. What does that mean in today’s world?

  6. We need to change the way we prepare our children

  7. Focus • Depth, Not Breadth • Focus deeply on major work of the grade: key ideas, understandings and skills • Stresses deep learning

  8. Coherence • Across and within grades • Making Connections • Making Math Make Sense

  9. Rigor • Rigor does not mean “hard problems.” • It’s a balance of • Fluency • Conceptual Understanding • Application. • There must be variety in what students are asked to produce.

  10. How has rigor increased? • Examine the two assessment tasks in front of you. • How is the common core aligned task different than the previous type of assessment task? • What do students need to know to be able to solve the task?

  11. Beliefs and Attitudes towards mathematics

  12. What are your beliefs and attitudes towards math? • One Word • One Phrase • One Sentence

  13. What does the research say? • Students’ attitudes and beliefs towards math MATTER! • Students who believe math is a series of disconnected rules and procedures often struggle compared with those who see underlying connections and meaning • Many students believe you are either good at math or you aren’t. They don’t believe they can change their achievement

  14. Resources

  15. Fluency

  16. Fluency

  17. Fact Family Cards

  18. Mental math: Number Talks • The Number of the Day is 12, write all the facts you can that equal 12.

  19. Many possible solutions

  20. Mental math: Number Talks How many ways can you solve without pencil and paper? 312 + 498=?

  21. Here’s one solution. Why does it work? 312+498(498 +2) + (312-2) 500+310=810

  22. Mental math: Number Talks • Solve 14 x 6 without a pencil and paper. How many different ways can you solve it?

  23. Number Sense

  24. Number Sense • What is it? • Ability to use and understand numbers • Working flexibly with numbers • Estimating • Develop useful strategies

  25. The Game 24

  26. Guess my rule?

  27. Wuzzit Trouble • App by Stanford math professor • Free the Wuzzit by figuring out the correct number of times to turn the gears

  28. Estimation • http://www.estimation180.com • 180 days of estimation challenges • Students look at a picture, make an estimate and share what context clues they used • They can see how close their estimates are.

  29. Go Math! Homework Help

  30. Go Math! Help • http://www.hmhco.com/GoMathAcademy • Videos by grade and topic

  31. Questions to guide students

  32. Questions for when they are stuck • How would you describe the problem in your own words? • What do you know that is not stated in the problem? • What facts do you have? • What does the word ________ mean?

  33. Questions for when they are stuck • Would it help to create a diagram? Make a table? Draw a picture? • Can you guess and check? • What do you already know that could help you figure that out?

  34. Additional Websites • Khan Academy • http://www.khanacademy.org/ • Talking math with your kids • http://talkingmathwithkids.com/ • Bedtime math stories • http://bedtimemath.org/ • Learn zillion • http://learnzillion.com/ • You cubed • http://youcubed.org

  35. Questions? • Comments? • Email: nicora.placa@gmail.com • Website: www.nicoraplaca.com

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