First Six Weeks: Maths | Primary School @ NIS

Week	Essential question	Action
Week 1/2	Who are we as mathematicians?	Find out about your students’ attitude to Maths What do they like & not like about Maths/two stars and a wish for Maths/ questionnaire to document their present feelings about Maths. Keep for future reference. Explicitly teach how to organise Maths work. Maths book expectations. Create anchor chart. Decorate Maths journals. Grade K-2: Being cooperative Youcubed Week of Inspirational Maths Week 3 Day 4 Team building-string shapes; Being strategic Week 3 Day 5 Maths game-Game of Totals Grade 3-5: Being cooperative Youcubed Week of Inspirational Maths Week 3 Day 4 Team building-string shapes; Being strategic Week 3 Day 2 Maths game-Game of Totals Other resources for building resilience and cooperation: K-G1 https://nrich.maths.org/9127 G2-5 https://nrich.maths.org/9168 https://nrich.maths.org/11868 https://nrich.maths.org/11867 Interactively model a Maths game-see Nrich games for suggestions
Week 3	What productive dispositions do we want to see in Maths?	Make productive dispositions visible Grades 3-5: Honouring Everyone’s Ideas Youcubed Week of Inspirational Maths Week 1 Day 1 Four 4s Grades K-2: Speed is not important-conjectures, creativity and uncertainty Youcubed Week of Inspirational Maths Week 2 Day 4 Folding shapes Grades 3-5: Speed is not important-conjectures, creativity and uncertainty Youcubed Week of Inspirational Maths Week 2 Day 4 Generating number strings. Other resources for making conjectures: K-G1 https://nrich.maths.org/9128 https://nrich.maths.org/9009 G2-5 https://nrich.maths.org/8915 https://nrich.maths.org/9152 Agree on Maths Norms, e.g. Jo Boaler’s Norms in the Maths class or What makes a good mathematician? or 8 math practices of Jedi masters or create a ‘Looks like…Sounds like…. Students’ job…. Teachers’ job….’ Make anchor chart-add to it as ideas come up Interactively model Maths Morning Meeting (see individual grade OneNote notebooks-Morning Meetings)
Week 4	How do we ensure that we are always learning (1)?	Introduce Maths Assessment Criterion A: Knowing and understanding Math Criteria PYP student version K-G5 Visualising Youcubed Week of Inspirational Maths Week 2 Day 1 A dot talk Introduce comfort zone, stretch zone, panic zone. Share information about growth mind-set and the importance of mistakes as appropriate (possible video on Week of Inspirational Maths Week 2 Day 2 or Carol Dweck) Grades K-5: Visualising Youcubed Week of Inspirational Maths Week 2 Day 2 Mistakes Are Beautiful Things-Seeing numbers visually-Graphs without numbers Other resources for visualising: K-G1 https://nrich.maths.org/9126 https://nrich.maths.org/11087G2-5 https://nrich.maths.org/11088 https://nrich.maths.org/9133 Grade K-2:Brains grow and change Youcubed Week of Inspirational Maths Week 3 Day 3 Making rectangles Grade 3-5:Brains grow and change Youcubed Week of Inspirational Maths Week 3 Day 3 One-cut geometry Maths Morning Meeting
Week 5	How can we improve our communication in Maths?	Introduce Maths Assessment Criterion C: Communication Math Criteria PYP student version Grades 3-5:Convincing, reasoning, rationalising Youcubed Week of Inspirational Maths Week 1 Day 3 Paper folding Grades K-2:Thinking about Maths visually Youcubed Week of Inspirational Maths Week 2 Day 5 Triangle Designs Other resources for reasoning and convincing K-G1 https://nrich.maths.org/9129 https://nrich.maths.org/9016 G2-5 https://nrich.maths.org/8921 https://nrich.maths.org/9169 Introduce an Estimation Talk-why and when do we estimate? See When near enough is good enough and Estimation presentation. Individual Estimation chart Maths Morning Meeting
Week 6	How do we ensure that we are always learning in Maths (2)?	Introduce Maths Assessment Criterion B: Pattern Math Criteria PYP student version Grades 3-5:The importance of visualisation Youcubed Week of Inspirational Maths Week 1 Day 2 Grades 3-5:The importance of pattern Youcubed Week of Inspirational Maths Week 1 Day 4 Grades 3-5:Introduction to Pattern Talks Youcubed Week of Inspirational Maths Week 1 Day 5 Grades K-2: Being observant and being specific Youcubed Week of Inspirational Maths Week 3 Day 1 Sorting shapes/patterns Further resources for being curious https://nrich.maths.org/11865 Maths Morning Meeting Introduce My Maths
Week 7	How do we solve Maths problems?	Introduce Maths Assessment Criterion D: Approach to Problem-solving Math Criteria PYP student version Grade K: Finger discrimination Youcubed Week of Inspirational Maths Week 3 Day 2 Finger counting Grades 1-2: Finger discrimination Youcubed Week of Inspirational Maths Week 3 Day 2 Grades 3-5:Making convincing arguments & critiquing Youcubed Week of Inspirational Maths Week 3 Day 1 Halving Further resources for problem solving from Nrich K-G1 https://nrich.maths.org/9130 https://nrich.maths.org/11083 https://nrich.maths.org/9807 G2-5 https://nrich.maths.org/9171 https://nrich.maths.org/9170 https://nrich.maths.org/9810 https://nrich.maths.org/11084 Explicitly begin to teach the problem-solving process- Maths problem solving process updated Set Maths goals (revisit report goals) Introduce Academic Choices Academic Choices example Maths Morning Meeting