Westminster Day 1 Lecture 1

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mathematical practices and singapore math

yeap ban har | marshall cavendish institute

yeapbanhar@gmail.com | www.banhar.blogspot.com

westin westminster | colorado

East Coast Primary School, Singapore

Synopsis | How mathematics lessons can be used to develop

mathematical practices? Examples are from Singapore

textbooks.

lesson types

to develop concepts

to consolidate concepts

to apply concepts

focus of this session

how choice of problems

and how the problem is unfolded

facilitate the development of mathematical

practices

anchortask| Make a figure using some or all of

the square tiles.

keyquestion| How many square tiles make up

the figure?

How much of the surface is

covered?

anchor

task

guided

practice

anchor

task

guided

practice

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keyquestion| ¼ of a group of children are in Grade 3.

¾ of the remainder are in Grade 4.

The rest of the children are in Grade 5.

There are 24 fifth graders in the group.

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