Session Description: 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.

6-Week Online Workshops: 

• Foundations of Numerical Reasoning in Grades K-2
• Foundation of Fractions
• Upcoming Semesters

Building Fact Fluency Toolkits (Add/Sub OR Mult/Div) by Graham Fletcher & Tracy Zager

• Download a sample Lesson String and take it for a test drive. (Includes 30 Lesson Strings)
• A Lesson String Contains the following tasks, activities, and routines around a singular context. 
  • Image Talk, Contextualized Practice Problem, Tool Talk, Strategy-Based Game, Number Talk, Same/Different, True/False, Card Talk, and an Open Middle Problem

Handouts & Resources:

• Slide deck (Uploaded October 23, 2023)
• 3-Act Tasks & additional recording sheets
• Progression Videos
• Number Sense Routines & Websites
• 3-Act & 5 Practices Recording Sheet
• Number Sense Trajectory
• Open Middle Cards
• Strategy-based Games

Tasks

• Candyman
• Bright Idea – Light Bulb Task
• Array-Bow of Colors
• The Big Pad
• The Clapper

Blog Posts

• Classroom action of a 3-act task in kindergarten (Candyman Task)
• Classroom action of a 3-act task in 5th grade (The Apple)