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Instructional Routine: Fraction Talks

This video highlights Fraction Talks as an instructional routine that gets students thinking deeply about fractions and provides insight into student thinking. Specifically, it illustrates how the students benefit from working with their peers and how the teacher learns about the students’ understandings from their sharing of their ideas.

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Instructional Routine: Fraction Talks | SABES

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In this video, you will see a demonstration of the instructional routine “Fraction Talks” and hear from the teacher and two students about their experience using it. The students share their conceptions of fractions and work toward the conclusion that when comparing the space occupied by fractions of different sizes, the fraction pieces must be the same size.

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Introduction to Padlet: Getting started for absolute beginners

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Measuring Large Objects with BeCALM: Measurement and Data - Unit 2 (Measuring Length)

In this video, you will see several differentiated instructional methods in action as students engage in collaborative learning with a non-routine but accessible task that accommodates a diverse range of learning levels and needs.

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Math Class in Action: Measuring Large Objects with BeCALM: Measurement and Data - Unit 2 (Measuring Length) | SABES

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In this video, you will see several differentiated instructional methods in action as students engage in collaborative learning with a non-routine but accessible task that accommodates a diverse range of learning levels and needs.

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Instructional Routine: Wrong Answers Only

For this routine, present your students with a problem. Their task is to come up with an incorrect answer and to share their rationale for how they know the answer is incorrect.

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Instructional Routine: Wrong Answers Only | SABES

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Beginning Curriculum for Adults Learning Math (BeCALM) is a cognitively rigorous, CCRSAE-aligned curriculum that is designed to center the thinking of beginning math learners (GLE 2-4) as they build a conceptual foundation of basic mathematics.

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BeCALM is a cognitively rigorous, CCRSAE-aligned curriculum that is designed to center the thinking of beginning math learners (GLE 2-4) as they build a conceptual foundation of basic mathematics.

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Curriculum for Adults Learning Math (CALM) is a CCRSAE-aligned curriculum that is designed to build strong conceptual understanding of Core Math Concepts through visual models that spark dialogue and give teachers insight into student’s reasoning.

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[CALM] is so powerful, and I really like it. I have been implementing ...this year and observing positive outcomes in my classroom. I look forward to improving my practice..."
- Adult Education Teacher

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CALM] is so powerful, and I really like it. I have been implementing ...this year and observing positive outcomes in my classroom. I look forward to improving my practice..." - Adult Education Teacher

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The SABES Math and Adult Numeracy PD Team provides high-quality professional development (PD) so that teachers can better help adult learners understand how math is present and relevant in everyday life, and how learners can use this knowledge to improve their own lives and communities.

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The SABES Mathematics and Adult Numeracy Curriculum & Instruction PD Team is managed by the Adult Numeracy Center at TERC. Our center provides high-quality professional development (PD) so that teachers can better help adult learners understand how math is present and relevant in everyday life, and how learners can use this knowledge to improve their own lives and communities.

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Excellent resource for any content area as well as English learners

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Which One Doesn't Belong? (A, B, C, or D)

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Which One Doesn't Belong? (A, B, C, or D)

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Choose one image in this picture that you don’t think belongs with the others. Explain why. Which one did your peers choose? What was their reason? Did it help you see things differently or lead you to search for another reason? Let them know by adding a comment or an emoji to their response.

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The Instructional Routines on this ANN page are accessible and challenging to all students, can be approached in multiple ways using different types of sense-making strategies, promote understanding through discussion, make student thinking visible, make math visual and encourage practice of mental math

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Adult Numeracy Network - Instructional Routines