June 29.30 | London

24 Maths Hub of 34 in England are using Maths - No Problem! in the coming school year.
Teachers are attending a two-day professional learning on teaching Year 1/2 mathematics.

Slides from Day 1 Maths Hub Textbook Project are here.

Slides from Day 1 and Day 2 Maths Hub Textbook Project are here.

June 15-20 | Jacksonville

K-2 Institute           Slides are available here.

 

Video on Three Meanings of Subtraction is available here.

 

Day One

 

The general sessions on Numbers and Geometry introduces the five elements of a lesson - exploring, structuring, journaling, reflecting and practicing with their theoretical underpinnings.

 

The breakout sessions are workshops on addition and subtraction, common difficulties in measurements (length, time and money), and bar models.

 

The end of day reflection by participants indicated that they found CPA Approach to be an important learning point together with the ideas by the 'five wise guys' (no, none of them is either Ban Har or Sarah!). The idea of letting students solve a problem in multiple ways (Method 1, Method 2) was also mentioned by a participant.

 

Day Two focuses on writing and discussing assessment items as well looking at an example of formative assessment. I also did a kindergarten math session and delivered the opening session on generalization.

 

Selected TIMSS Items here.

 

3-5 Institute            Slides are available here.

              

Common Core State Standards Critical Areas - Look under Introduction

 

Day One

 

The opening sessions looked at metacognition in computation and problem solving. The closing session shows the main elements of a math lesson - exploring, structuring, journaling and reflecting.

 

I also did a session on ratio and another on bar models.

 

Day 2 focuses on fractions, visualization and assessment.

 

6-8 Institute             Slides are available here.

June 8 | Hopkins (Blake)

Grade 1 Institute  Handouts  Slides
Counting, Adding by Making 10, Subtracting with Renaming and Number Bonds are the focus content area in the Grade 1 Institute.

Grade 2 Institute  Handouts  Slides

The focus was on subtraction with regrouping for three-digit numbers, addition as well as word problems, multiplication and equal parts.

Grade 3 Institute  Handouts  Slides

We focused on multi digit multiplication and addition. And a bit of fractions.

Grade 4 Institute  Handouts  Slides

We focused on fractions.

Grade 5 Institute  Handouts  Slides

Grade 5 institute was mostly on multiplication and division of fractions.

Grade 6 Institute  Handouts  Slides

We looked at three types of lessons in mathematics.

Handouts are available for printing before class. Slides are available after class.

June 4 | Singapore (AME-SMS Conference)

I used Bamboo Paper and not-a-21st-Century Competency (handwriting) in my AME-SMS Conference keynote presentation at NUS High School of Math and Science.

June 3 | Singapore (Singapore Early Childhood Education Symposium)