Math Committee Professional Development
Jill Gough, Marsha Harris, Becky Holden

Friday, January 13

• Morning Session: 2nd Grade Leads, 1/2 of 1st Grade
• Afternoon Session: 2nd Grade Assistants, 1/2 of 1st Grade

Goals:

• I can facilitate intentional tasks to improve mathematical flexibility for all learners.
• I can look for and make use of structure.
• I can look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Learning Plan:

15 min	Welcome – Intent and Purpose
45 min	Strategies: Number Talks and Number Strings
45 min	Minilessons for … Read, select, and design – anticipate and connect to strategies Read and discuss one number string Brainstorm important strategies and Anticipate how learners will think and solve using Post-it notes Connect to essential learnings or skills Select presenter and get ready to monitor “students”
50 min	Practice – Facilitate planned number string with other grade level teachers serving as the learners 5th/6th Grade Number String 4th Grade Number String 3rd Grade Number String
10 min	Next steps and challenge
	Session ends

Resources:

• Slide deck
• Number string structure and design

Curriculum Support Materials:

1st Grade

• Minilessons for Early Addition and Subtraction: A Yearlong Resource (Contexts for Learning Mathematics) by Catherine Twomey Fosnot
• Minilessons for Extending Addition and Subtraction: A Yearlong Resource (Contexts for Learning Mathematics) by Willem Uttenbogaard

2nd Grade

• Minilessons for Extending Addition and Subtraction: A Yearlong Resource (Contexts for Learning Mathematics) by Willem Uttenbogaard
• Minilessons for Early Multiplication and Division: A Yearlong Resource (Contexts for Learning Mathematics) by Willem Uttenbogaard