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Sample Math Tasks
Great Task Rubrics
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Developing Deeper Level Thinking
Lower Cognitive Demand
On a double decker bus, 9 people are in the first level and 10 are on the second level. How many people are on the bus?
What is your answer?
Where is your work?
How did you get 19?
2 numbers and add them
Some opportunity to explain answer
Higher Cognitive Demand
There are 19 people on a double decker bus. How many people might be on each level on the bus?
Have you found all the possible combos?
A student once told me there were only 9 possible ways, is that correct?
Students have to add multiple combos
Students have the to determine possible combos
Students have to figure out what it means to have 19 kids on the bus
Opportunities to hear strategies as well as explain answers
Videos
Classroom Activities for Growth Mindset
4 Boxes, 4 minutes
1 minute-list all the things that have been really hard for you in math , this year, last year, back in K (these can be things you have mastered now, but think back to the really hard times)
1 minute-list all the statements you say in your head when things get hard in MATH
1 minute-list all the times you have encountered something difficult outside of school; a time when you thought you would never get it, but you eventually did
1 minute-list all the statements you say in your head when things get hard
Growth mindsets are different in different situations
Math Mindset
