Introduction to LearnZillion and Task-based Math Lessons

Kim Clark, Technology and Innovation in Educationkclark@tie.net

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• LearnZillion (learnzillion.com) is an online learning platform that helps teachers and parents meet the educational needs of every student.

• We provide teachers and parents with high quality video lessons and teaching materials--produced by top teachers from around the country.

• Each lesson highlights a Common Core standard and can be assigned directly to students or used to plan high quality lessons. 

LearnZillion began with video lessons. Check out our 4,000+ video lessons to enhance your teaching

● Short and highly conceptual, our videos unlock the nuance of each standard.

● Use them preteach, reteach, for intervention or homework, or pause/start them in class as you facilitate.

FREE lessons help teachers & parents understand and teach the Common Core.

These lessons were built by a growing community of incredible teachers—the LearnZillion Dream Team

What is LearnZillion?

Let’s Dive Deeper into the MATH

Last year, LearnZillion included math lessons. More than just a plan, our math lessons include everything you need.

Rigorous lessons with all presentation materials

3 levels of printable practice problemsTeacher notes and

questions for students

Formative assessments

Intervention and extension support

Launch

Debrief

Big idea

Task

Closing

Practice

Formative assessme

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Intervention &

extension

Task-based lesson resources and presentation materials help you increase rigor and save time

Lessons start with tasks for student-centered teaching and learning

3 levels of printable practice help you differentiate

A formative assessment helps you act immediately

Additional resources help you provide support or challenge students

We start with the basics - a lesson title and description

● Title and author

● Targeted standards

● Big Ideas in the lesson

● Vocabulary

We provide materials to help you and your students prep

● Links to prior knowledge lesson videos

● Notes about any special materials needed to implement the lesson

The Core Lesson task begins with a “Launch”

● Engages students’ in a real world or mathematical problem connected to the day’s learning

● Stimulates prior knowledge

Students are then presented with a rigorous task

● Addresses big ideas in the lesson

● Provides clear problem, activity, construction, or project for students

● Requires students to reason, explain, or illustrate mathematical ideas

Teacher notes and questions are included to help you facilitate

● Provide guidelines and commentary for implementing the lesson

● Guiding questions to assess, advance, elicit, or probe student understanding

● Common misconceptions or errors explain and anticipate likely understandings or roadblocks

● Possible solution paths model or explain likely approaches to the task

Lead a student-centered math discussion in the Task Debrief

● Share solutions

● Review key concepts

● Explore and model possible solution paths

Review the Big Ideas to help students crystalize key concepts

● Share solutions

● Review key concepts

● Explore and model possible solution paths

The Closing asks students to articulate key principles

● Pose questions and prompts designed to elicit evidence of student understanding

● Can be used to facilitate discussion or writing

We then include 3 levels of Practice Exercises

● Set A: provides extra scaffolding for students who struggle with the concepts

● Set B: designed for students who have demonstrated understanding, but need extra practice

● Set C: for students who are ready to develop a deeper understanding

Use our Formative Assessment to evaluate student understanding

● Formative assessment designed to reveal student understandings

Intervention and Extension resources help you support all students

● Intervention Support provides links to video lessons that target specific student misunderstandings

● Extension Support links to video lessons that build on the mathematical concepts in the lesson

What’s New? LearnZillion App for students

App Features:• LearnZillion allows personalized learning to happen anytime

and anywhere. Students can get lessons anytime, freeing up class-time for the application of skills and content.

• Students can receive personalized assignments, so that they get exactly the lessons they need when they need them.

• Video lessons can be saved on the device and watched later–even when the internet isn’t available.

• Everything that a student does in the app is also reflected in their account and their teacher’s account on the web.

• Every video sums up what the student has learned from that particular lesson!

Let’s dive into LearnZillion

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