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Picking Up The Pace with Review
Lesson 2 of 8
Objective: Students will be able to focus on important topics and much needed review
Big Idea: Students get a chance to reflect on their work for the year and make a deliberate decision to review any topic.
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The goal is to circulate and see how students are doing with the problems from the diagnostic exam. Partners continue to check the what, how and why of their algorithms. I often join student conversations and highlight different algorithms. Many students are hesitant to explain and truly listen to another algorithm. If a partnership is struggling, I jump in.
“I noticed that you both got the same answer.”
“Yes.”
“Did you notice that you both have two great and completely different strategies?”
“I didn’t notice that.”
“Could I listen to you explain your work?”
Then I jump in and often ask the other student to rephrase or summarize parts of the algorithm that they just listened to. If they struggle, I will ask specific questions, like “how did she get the number 5 in her first equation?” My goal is to gather stories of learning that can be shared later in the summary. Even if I am unable to reach all students, I will have some powerful stories and algorithms that can be shared with the group. These stories resonate with others because students know they are authentic and realize that they too have similar algorithms.
- UNIT 1: Starting Right
- UNIT 2: Scale of the Universe: Making Sense of Numbers
- UNIT 3: Scale of the Universe: Fluency and Applications
- UNIT 4: Chrome in the Classroom
- UNIT 5: Lines, Angles, and Algebraic Reasoning
- UNIT 6: Math Exploratorium
- UNIT 7: A Year in Review
- UNIT 8: Linear Regression
- UNIT 9: Sets, Subsets and the Universe
- UNIT 10: Probability
- UNIT 11: Law and Order: Special Exponents Unit
- UNIT 12: Gimme the Base: More with Exponents
- UNIT 13: Statistical Spirals
- UNIT 14: Algebra Spirals
- LESSON 1: A start to lesson review
- LESSON 2: Picking Up The Pace with Review
- LESSON 3: Fixing Errors, Translations and Dilations
- LESSON 4: Review and Reflections
- LESSON 5: Conferencing and 3d planes
- LESSON 6: Conferencing and Angles
- LESSON 7: Conferencing and Fractions
- LESSON 8: Make Us Laugh