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As more teachers look to add high-yield tasks to their repertoire, the struggle to make it all work becomes real. Let’s examine how problem-based lessons can be used throughout the scope of a unit and how we can harness their power to move student thinking forward. We’ll identify strategies and explore some tasks that help us find a healthy balance between application, conceptual understanding, and procedural fluency.

Slides:

• Full Day 3-6 Fractions

Tasks:

• Graham Fletcher’s 3-Act Tasks

Websites Referenced

• Open Middle
• Estimation 180 – Andrew Stadel
• Which One Doesn’t Belong? – Mary Bourassa
• Same Different Images

Worthwhile Posts & Progression Videos

• Progression Videos
• POST: Teaching a task in 5th grade

Handouts & Resources (If anything is missing just let me know)

• 3 Act Tasks (At-A-Glance)
• 3-Act Recording Sheet
• 5 Moves Planning Page
• Broken Circles and Squares
• Open Middle Cards