Classroom-Ready Rich Math Tasks, Grades K-1

Engaging Students in Doing Math

Beth McCord Kobett, Francis (Skip) Fennell, Karen S. Karp, Delise Andrews, Latrenda Knighten, Jeff Shih

• Publisher: Corwin
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781544399102
• eBook ISBN: 9781071841242
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Elementary Education

Detailed plans for helping elementary students experience deep mathematical learning 

Do you work tirelessly to make your math lessons meaningful, challenging, accessible, and engaging? Do you spend hours you don't have searching for, adapting, and creating tasks to provide rich experiences for your students that supplement your mathematics curriculum? Help has arrived! Classroom Ready-Rich Math Tasks for Grades K-1 details 56 research- and standards-aligned, high-cognitive-demand tasks that will have your students doing deep-problem-based learning. These ready-to-implement, engaging tasks connect skills, concepts and practices, while encouraging students to reason, problem-solve, discuss, explore multiple solution pathways, connect multiple representations, and justify their thinking. They help students 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 and an attentiveness to all students, 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.

With concluding guidance on adapting or creating additional rich tasks for your students, this guide will help you give all of your students the deepest, most enriching and engaging mathematics learning experience possible.  

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Publisher Note
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• CHAPTER 1 Doing-Math Tasks What Are They, Why Are They Important, and How Do I Plan for Implementation?
• CHAPTER 2 Laying the Groundwork for Teaching With Doing-Math Tasks
• CHAPTER 3 Implementing a Doing-Math Task-Based Lesson
• CHAPTER 4 Counting and Cardinality Counting and Writing Numbers
• CHAPTER 5 Counting and Cardinality Counting Objects
• CHAPTER 6 Operations and Algebraic Thinking Patterns and Relationships
• CHAPTER 7 Counting and Comparing
• CHAPTER 8 Operations and Algebraic Thinking Addition and Subtraction
• CHAPTER 9 Operations and Algebraic Thinking Addition and Subtraction Relationships
• CHAPTER 10 Number and Operations in Base Ten Place Value
• CHAPTER 11 Number and Operations in Base Ten Adding and Subtracting
• CHAPTER 12 Measurement Comparing, Ordering, Sorting, and Informal Measurement
• CHAPTER 13 Measurement Time
• CHAPTER 14 Data Represent and Interpret Data
• CHAPTER 15 Geometry Distinguishing Attributes and Naming and Identifying Shapes
• CHAPTER 16 Geometry Composing Shapes and Equal Shares
• CHAPTER 17 Your Turn
• Appendix A
• Appendix B Formative Assessment Tools*
• References
• Index
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