Learning Opportunities

Building a Thinking Mathematics Classroom

Presented By

Peter Liljedahl

Series Sessions

Date Time
Wednesday, November 04, 2020 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Tuesday, December 08, 2020 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Location

Online Online

We know that problem solving is an effective way for students to learn to think mathematically and to acquire deep knowledge and understanding of the mathematics they are learning. Simply problematizing the mathematics curriculum, however, does not help constitute the practice that teachers want or students need. Equally, infusion of problem-based learning into the mathematics curriculum does not help with the transformations we want to see in our classrooms. What we need are a set of tools that, along with good problems, can build thinking students, thinking classrooms, and greater engagement in curricular mathematics. In this series of three online workshops we will explore just such a set of tools and learn how to apply them to everything from a problem solving session to teaching a section of the textbook. The workshops will intertwine with, and make extensive references to, the recently published book, Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics (Grades K-12): 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning, which can be purchased from https://ca.corwin.com/en-gb/nam/building-thinking-classrooms-in-mathematics-grades-k-12/book268862.

 These sessions will be adapted to be relevant to whatever the teaching environment looks like at the time: online, f2f, modified f2f, or hybrid. 

 

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