Workshop | How To Build Powerful Reasoning Using Problem Strings

Price

The price listed is for a 12 months of access. An additional pricing option is available for this workshop at $45 for 4 months of access.

Instructor

Pam Harris
Pam Harris empowers math teachers to be the teachers they want to be. She has been working with educators for over 20 years as a classroom teacher, university instructor, and teacher trainer, as well as writing books and creating resources for teachers. As a beginning teacher, she worked hard to make lessons understandable and interesting, but didn’t realize how much she relied on rote memorization and repeating procedures until she immersed herself in math research. This fundamentally changed the way she does and teaches mathematics so that students work toward making sense of math, develop deep conceptual understandings, and are no longer robots.

About This Workshop

Do you believe that learning math should be more than memorizing facts and formulas? Like you, I think that learning math is about changing our brains to have more and more connections, and increasing in mental sophistication. Learning is also using what you know to build new relationships. Want that to happen more in your classroom?

Welcome to Problem Strings, an instructional routine that moves students from where they are and helps them build relationships and sophisticated strategies. A purposefully crafted string of problems, interspersed with a teacher-led discussion, moves students from their current understanding to new ideas in a way that is student centered and feels organic.

In this mini workshop you'll begin by experiencing a Problem String (from your grade band) as a participant. Next, you'll watch an experienced teacher facilitate a Problem String with students (again, from your grade band), and then study three Problem Strings for your grade band. Finally, we will review high-leverage teacher moves to help you get the most out of this incredible instructional routine, and learn how to fit Problem Strings into your current teaching.

There is even a bonus lesson on how to teach remotely with Problem Strings.

Subject: Mathematics
Grade Levels: Elementary School, Middle School, High School
Start Date: Immediate access
2 Professional Development Hours
Timing: Self-paced with no set meeting time

Topics Covered:
• Instructional routines
• Problem Strings
• Additive Thinking
• Multiplicative Reasoning
• Proportional Reasoning
• Functional Reasoning
• Number Talks
• Remote instruction
• Representing Student Thinking
• High-leverage Teacher Moves

One mangrove tree will be planted

Credit

1 Graduate Level Professional Development Credit Available.

Credit may be available for this workshop and may vary by country or institution. Please verify eligibility with Grassroots Workshops.