Three Part Math

When I went to school--all those many,many,many (few more many) years ago, we were required learn a lot of math by rote. If you asked WHYyou invert and multiply to divide a number by a fraction, the answer was--'because I told you to !'. Three Part Math brings us back to Experiencing Mathematical thinking and discovering the WHY! Kids work in small groups on an 'open ended' question that gets them thinking about the 'math' we are trying to learn. We then take their group samples and together discuss what strategies the students to solve the problem. From those samples, we then co-create success criteria for solving these types of problem. In this scenario teachers are not the 'keepers' of the knowledge, we become facilitators along the students journey to understand the mathematical concepts. 

See below for pictures of how the lesson went today and the anchor charts we created from the student's work.