Creating

Collaborative

Classrooms: CPM Parent Night It became a great evening when you joined us!

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Objective: To have participants be actively involved using strategies to talk about mathematics, experience learning in teams, and also use brain

research to see how your child’s math class is being enhanced.

Agenda

*Opening Activity

*Effective Study teams

*Discourse

*Math Problems where strategies will be modeled

*Reflection

*Closure/Questions

DOT Activity

*There are dots at your table. *Pick up two and put one on each poster at your current level of knowledge/understanding.

ICEBREAKER - Math Stars ★As a team, brainstorm something that all of you

have in common.

★List your team’s common attribute on the paper in the center of the four stars.

★Find ways that each person in the team is unique from the others, and write those things on each person’s star.

Cup Stacking Challenge GOAL: ● To work together as a team towards a common goal

● To improve verbal and nonverbal communication skills RULES: 1. All group members must participate for each challenge

2. Only the rubber band can touch or move the cups

T E A M

R O L E S

Task Manager-

Facilitator-

Resource Manager-

Recorder/Reporter-

Let’s learn about the team roles.

Jigsaw

How do we get students to talk to each other?

• They need something meaningful to talk about.

• They need someone to talk to without getting off task.

• They need structures for their discourse. • They need a safe environment to share ideas.

10 Holes of Golf….

The Rover Staff is having its annual charity fundraising event. In order to encourage donors to attend, the Rovers organize a fun game called “10 Holes of Golf” and gives away prizes. Each team plays 10 holes of golf. There is a prize for the team that is consistently closest to the hole.

10 Holes of Golf

Your teacher has set up a “hole.” Your team will “swing” 10 pennies toward the “hole.” You will then represent your data on a graph and with numerical statistics, decide which team was the most consistently

close to the hole.

TEAMMATES CONSULT

10 Holes of Golf Your Task: Your teacher will give you ten pennies. Have one team member stand 200 cm from the “hole.” That team member will toss all ten pennies, one at a time. No “do-overs” and no practice shots are allowed. Then record the distance from the center of each penny to the “hole” (to the nearest centimeter), even if the penny rolled far away. Repeat with different team members until 10 pennies have been tossed by each member. Do not take turns each tossing one a penny at a time—each team member should toss all ten of their pennies in one turn.

Huddle

10 Holes of Golf

*Decide how you want to represent your data on

your poster. Leave room for the task below. *Decide the 5 most important facts you wish to report

about your team’s golf shots and add them to your poster.

*Your teacher will direct you on how to compare your team’s results with the other teams.

*Which team was most consistently close to the hole?

Traveling Salesman

“Mathematics makes more sense and is easier to remember and to apply when students connect new knowledge to existing knowledge in meaningful ways.”

Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, 2000

Effective teaching of mathematics:

• facilitates discourse among students to build shared understanding of mathematical ideas by analyzing and comparing student approaches and arguments.

• engages students in making connections among mathematical representations to deepen understanding of mathematics concepts and procedures and as tools for problem-solving.

Principles to Action-NCTM 2014

P R O X I MI T y

P A R T N E R

*What are the roles of the teacher and the student in a student centered classroom? *How are they the same or different from when you were in a classroom?

Reflection

The hard work involved in teambuilding is worth it and pays many benefits, including:

• Social support for learning math • Success for more students • Opportunities to see and discuss multiple

approaches • More meaningful learning by discussing and

explaining • Better mastery of basic skills • Greater mathematical exploration and

creativity

Note from a teacher...CPM ROCKS! I have had ________ since Freshman year. He/she always complained about work and doing things. Today, however, he/she was so into the lesson that he/she did not even stop working when the bell rang!!! He/she said he/she really liked it and is excited to continue it tomorrow. SUCCESS!!!

CPM: College Preparatory Mathematics

*Teacher written curriculum with the support of college professors

*Collaborative, group-based approach to learning

*Problem-based math series

*Focus on multiple representations and an embedded use of technology. No more than three concepts in a chapter so students are going deeper into concepts and creating meaning of those concepts.

CPM: College Preparatory Mathematics

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*Parent Guide *Check out the “Parent Tip” section - these are offered weekly.

DISCUSSION • What did you learn this evening? • What activities helped you learn? • What activities did you find engaging? • How did it help your group to work more

efficiently if your members did their specific jobs?

CPM Tips *Homework: Review and Preview *Tests: 50% review, 50% material from this chapter *Classroom Structure/Teams

Closure/Questions

*Please take the new colored dots on your table and place them on the two posters once again.