Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• Welcome
Designing Professional • Plan for facilitation
Development in Mathematics • Facilitation and debriefing round 3
• Step back and reflect as learners
• Reflection on our thinking
Michigan Mathematics and Science
Teacher Leadership Collaborative • Wrap-up
C’ A’
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Assignment
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ANALYZING THE TASK:
FOCUSING ON THE MATHEMATICS
Before you examine student work on the Task, you are to solve the problem for yourself
and then respond to the two items below. Working on the task for yourself and thinking
about the range of ways the problem can be solved will help prepare you for examining and
interpreting students’ responses.
What is the mathematics in the task? How is the mathematics in this task connected to the
GLCEs?
Summarize the different ways in which the students worked on the task.
Which solutions would you have a conversation about and why, with your class?
How might you use student strategies to frame your next instructional steps? Why?