10 Strategies To Keep Groupwork Accountable
High quality group work isn’t accidental, it takes a well executed plan to ensure students are learning. These 10 Strategies …
Increasing student access through tasks
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Find A Task
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Knowledge For Implementing
Tasks can be epic wins in a classroom, or disasters waiting to happen. Teacher knowledge is what makes the difference. …
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Why Math Tasks?
Curriculum design must take into consideration some of the many demands on educators, incorporating another “thing” into classrooms seems impossible. …
The Magic of Using Math Tasks
When teachers have used math tasks in their classrooms that have these features, they report “magic” happening with their students. Even the most reluctant learners engage powerfully in math tasks increasing their access to performing well in class when they otherwise might not. When you find a task that works for you, please support our community by sharing your story. If you have a task that has inspired your students, please share and contribute.
“A group-worthy task provides opportunities for students to access the instruction and the information required to engage in the task, facilitate equal-status participation, and allows students to demonstrate the multiple intellectual abilities and the different academic and social skills they use to complete the task successfully.” (Cohen & Lotan, 2014)
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We organize tasks by topic, tag and cognitive demand. The search feature is also available. We add and modify tasks regularly to make them more useful for teachers and students. Start exploring our tasks!
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Algebra & FunctionsAlgebra & Functions
Algebra is the abstraction of number concepts and Functions describe algebraic relationships. Tasks allow pattern seeking to generalize these relationships.
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GeometryGeometry
Geometry has connections beyond angles and theorems. Use tasks to promote application and problem solving authentically.
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Number and QuantityNumber and Quantity
An understanding of Numbers and Quantities concretely lead to students developing abstracting concepts which support algebraic thinking in later years.
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Statistics & ProbabilityStatistics & Probability
Probability applies the number sense learned in prior years. Combined with Statistics, students make conclusions based on evidence.
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Mathematical Tasks are time-tested and adhere to guidelines to ensure alignment with research. There are two major ways to join this community of math educators and learners. Contribute articles and teacher content knowledge or help grow this community by registering as a subscriber. More tasks and articles arriving all the time!
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We publish many tasks and educator information posts…here is just a sample of the latest. Explore all of our published tasks: Visit our tasks page, select by subject domain, category or tag.
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