Here are the definitions of the Strands of Mathematical Proficiency that were in the PowerPoint today:
Adding it Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics, National Research Council (2001, p. 116).
- Conceptual Understanding – comprehension of mathematical concepts, operations, and relations.
- Procedural Fluency – skill in carrying out procedures flexibly, accurately, efficiently, and appropriately.
- Adaptive Reasoning – capacity for logical thought, reflection, explanation, and justification.
- Strategic Competence – ability to formulate, represent, and solve mathematical problems.
- Productive Disposition – habitual inclination to see mathematics as sensible, useful, and worthwhile, coupled with a belief in diligence and one’s own efficacy.
This book can be downloaded for free at this link.
Homework
Read Principles to Actions (the blue book):
- Sections titled Progress and Change; Effective Teaching & Learning (Pages 1-12)
- Section titled “Implement Tasks that Promote Reasoning and Problem Solving” (pages 17-24).
Write answers to the following prompts in your journal:
- Reflect on a typical in-class math lesson (use your textbook to refresh your memory). Using the descriptions of Levels of Cognitive Demand in Figure 3 (p. 18), describe the types of mathematical thinking your students are required to engage in during a typical lesson.
- Reflect on a typical homework assignment that your students complete (use your textbook to refresh your memory). What level of cognitive demand do most of the tasks on a typical homework require of your students?
- Consider the chart about beliefs on page 11. What is your reaction to this description of unproductive and productive beliefs?
Read through and reflect on the 8 Rules that Expire.
- When does the rule work?
- Bonus: What grade level does that scenario occur?
- Give a mathematical scenario where the rule does not work (at least, not in the way it’s phrased)
- Bonus: What grade level does that scenario occur?