Teaching Mathematics to Struggling Learners: Addition, Subtraction and Place Value focuses on diagnosing and addressing student difficulties and developing mathematical content knowledge for teaching in the areas of addition, subtraction, and place value.
TMSL: Addition, Subtraction, and Place Value Course Goals
Participants will:
- Understand research-based strategies and best practices for struggling learners in mathematics
- Understand and apply Carol Dweck’s Growth Mindset to encourage persistence and effort in their students
- Analyze and experience the Specially Designed Instruction (SDI) resource, Do the Math, centered on the content of addition, subtraction, and place value
- Analyze and experience diagnostic assessment
- Understand how to use Michael Battista’s Cognition-Based Assessment of Addition and Subtraction and Place Value as a diagnostic assessment
- Understand how to use embedded formative assessment (Do the Math Show What You Know) to guide instruction and make students aware of their own learning
- Understand the alignment between the Battista diagnostic assessment and the Do the Math resource in the areas of addition, subtraction, and place value
- Identify and discuss prerequisites to learning addition and subtraction
- Spatial patterns and subitizing
- One and two more, one and two less
- Anchoring to 5 and 10
- Part-part-whole relationships
- Identify and analyze salient features in different problem types
- Apply graphic organizers as models for understanding problem types
- Understand and apply the four types of assessment:
- Progress monitoring
- Diagnostic assessment
- Formative assessment
- Summative assessment
- Understand how to incorporate basic fact fluency into their intervention time on a routine basis
- Review the purpose of teacher think-alouds for the teaching of addition, subtraction, and place value, and practice this instructional strategy
- Experience activities to increase their content knowledge in the areas of addition, subtraction, and place value
- Understand and practice the use of various models of representation in the teaching of addition, subtraction, and place value