Teaching Math at a Distance, Grades K-12: A Practical Guide to Rich Remote Instruction

by Theresa E. Wills

Make Rich Math Instruction Come to Life Online When distance learning is the "new normal," educators know that rich remote math teaching involves more than direct instruction and endless practice problems. This powerful guide translates what we know about research-based, equitable, rigorous face-to-face mathematics instruction into an online venue and equips math teachers ·         Build students’ agency, identity, and strong math communities ·         Promote mathematical thinking, collaboration, and discourse ·         Incorporate rich mathematics tasks and assign meaningful homework and practice ·         Assess mathematics learning from a distance Teaching Math at a Distance offers the support, clarity, and inspiration teachers need to provide all students with deep learning and academic growth.

284 pages, Paperback

Published November 3, 2020

Reviews

[Lindsey · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really loved this book once I got through “the basics” chapters. I learned so much about how to foster rich collaboration in a distance environment (including the small group norm of “keep your mics on” to foster the sharing of unfinished and unpolished nuggets of information to help foster a less sterile small group virtual interaction). I loved the attention to rich learning experiences in a virtual setting and have bookmarked Number Routines, Math Congress, Virtual exit tickets, whole class notebooks, defend your choice, tweet boards, dump and develop, mine yours ours, and much much more! What a treasure trove of learning experiences where the author explicitly shows how to transfer what we have done in-person to a remote or blended environment! The final chapter about formative and summative assessments is the icing on the cake—the time to give intentional assessments that do more than ask students to practice procedures are here and this book gives some wonderful assessment questions that all teachers should ask themselves before giving a summative assessment (what is your purpose, how can you change the question, all remote learning exams are take home—how can you use this information to foster and assess deeper learning and deeper mathematical connections). Student interviews as an assessment tool is one of my favorites! Highly recommend!

[lyss · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a must read for any educator working with remote learners. There is so much valuable information in this book. As a k-2 teacher, though, it will take some reflection and thought on how to adapt some of these tech resources and activities for young children.