If you’re not familiar with CRA, it stands for Concrete, Representational, and Abstract. It’s a research-based instructional sequence that helps students develop a deeper understanding of mathematical concepts. If you’d…
Here’s the scenario: You decided on your math workshop routines, you taught your procedures and expectations, and you feel like you’re in full swing. Now… While your kiddos are working,…
The first question I am often asked related to Math Workshop is How do I hold the students accountable? I’m going to be brutally honest: holding your students accountable for…
As students spend increasingly more time engaged in independent math workshop tasks, it’s essential that we align those tasks to our content standards and math process standards. This post is…
Whether you are just getting started with a workshop approach to math or you have already implemented your own version, I have some tips for structuring math workshop to maximize…
“The goal during the first few weeks of Math Workshop is to create a learning culture in which students know and apply routines and procedures and are ready to assume…
“Without effective Math Workstation tasks, successfully implementing Math Workshop is impossible.” (Sammons/Boucher, p 69) And here we are in August! I’m sure your brain is buzzing with great ideas about how…
“…workstations are most successful when teachers give careful attention to the composition of their student groups, the mathematics content of the workstation tasks, and the types of math tasks students…
“Effective management practices springboard student learning and allow teachers to extend their mathematics instruction in a myriad of ways…” (Sammons/Boucher, p 49) This week in our book study of Guided Math Workshop,…
