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Do you need to "shift"?
I began my teaching career as a middle school math teacher in the Texas high-stakes testing environment. I learned to “teach to the test” using a mostly procedural (traditional) approach to math.
However, in the fall of 2021 I will be teaching math in the inquiry-based IB framework for the first time. Needless to say, I need to make the “shift”.
This site is dedicated to sharing my experience with teachers who need/want to learn how to teach math for conceptual understanding.
Let’s grow together!
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Steps 1 – 3 of my process, Identify the standards, Big Idea and Real-World Application.
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Step 4 in my process. In this step we research and write generalizations for our unit plan.
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Step 5 in my process. We write the conceptual understanding and for IB MYP we write the Statement of Inquiry (SOI)
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Part 2 of my conversation with Dr. Jennifer Chang-Wathall where she explains two parts of the unit web – Mathematical Processes and Guiding Questions.
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