In partnership with school district staff, our school-based literacy and numeracy support facilitators organized and delivered a professional learning series on Math Instructional Routines with the goal of improving computational fluency.  Using sports as an anaology, the idea is that instructional routines in teaching are "standard plays" for classroom learning.  If everyone on the team (i.e. students) knows the play, the game (i.e. instruction) runs more smoothly.

Recognizing the diverse range of learners in their classes, Math 8 teachers took a closer look at their approaches to teaching math and were introduced to a variety of strategies and resources to try with their students.  In this learning series teachers, we looked at:

Estimating

Number Talks

Math Facts