***Detailed plans for helping elementary students experience deep
mathematical learning
The 56 mathematical tasks in this guide will challenge your youngest
students to do deep problem-based learning. These ready-to-implement
tasks connect concepts, skills, and practices and encourage students to
reason, problem-solve, discuss, explore, justify, monitor their own
thinking, and connect the mathematics they know to new situations. In
other words, these tasks allow students to truly do mathematics! Written
with a strengths-based lens, this guide includes:
- Complete task-based lessons, referencing mathematics standards and
practices, vocabulary, and materials
- Downloadable planning tools, student resource pages, and thoughtful
questions, and formative assessment prompts
- Guidance on preparing, launching, facilitating, and reflecting on each
task
- Notes on access and equity, focusing on students' strengths,
productive struggle, and distance or alternative learning
environments.