The math program I use comes with a suggested yearly plan for each grade level that addresses all the prescribed learning outcomes (standards) for my province. I keep the monthly plans in the math section of my teacher organizer/daybook and refer to them often, just to make sure I am staying on track. The plans are by no means a prescribed program (it's actually very open-ended, allowing for what actually happens in the classroom and based on student needs/weaknesses) but I find it's nice to have some kind of frame to work with.
We have an hour long daily math block, which is split into 3 parts, allowing me to incorporate a number of activities into each math session. In planning the week, I choose 3 out of 5 possible activities to do each day. I find this works really well in:
- keeping students focused and
- allowing for the diversity of learning strengths and interests in the classroom
- Problem Solving (PS)
- All the Facts (AF)
- How Many Ways (HMW)
- Weekly Graph
- Games/Project
Monday - Weekly Graph, AF, HMW
Tuesday - PS, HMW, Game/Project
Wednesday - PS, AF, Game/Project
Thursday - PS, AF, HMW
Friday - PS, AF, HMW, Game
I'm pretty happy with the way it's set up but I think I would switch the weekly graph to a different day and start with problem solving on Monday, as the problem on Monday can be a springboard for the rest of the week's problems. And I'm not happy with the way the game/project activities are going. . .or not, as the case may be. <sheepish grin> Needs some tweaking in that dept., FOR SURE!
Friday activities are used for assessments. I mark the PS, AF, and HMW activities and record them in my Math Assessment & Evaluation Binder. Each student has a binder pocket where we keep the samples of their work. I'll write about this in a separate post.
Next time, I'll go into more detail about each of the activities and how it looks in the class and what I'd like to change/keep the same. . .there's always room for tweaking. :)
Note: Please ignore the grid below...I tried to remove it from my post but can't seem to. Not sure why, I can't??
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