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Math Minutes

2021/22 Quarter 2

Math Minutes2021/22 Quarter 2

New from your Heartland AEA Math Consultants: The Math Diagnostic Flowchart App is ready to use! New from your Heartland AEA Math Consultants: The Math Diagnostic Flowchart App is ready to use!

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Your HAEA Mathematics Consultant Team has created the Math Diagnostic Flowchart app. This app is designed to match content progressions to tools and resources to support assessment and instruction.


When the slide-deck is in slideshow mode, you can interact with the slide-deck to make decisions on next steps for acquiring data and matching instruction to support struggling learners.


You may access the app here.


Your HAEA Mathematics Consultants are ready to partner with you and your district on how the Math Diagnostic Flowchart can be utilized in your MTSS.

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Now Available at Creative Services: Subitizing Flip Cards

Subitizing cards are flashcards with groups of objects on them. Teachers quickly and briefly show the cards in front of the class. Students respond with the number of objects they saw. For numbers to 5, students learn to instantly recognize the quantity (perceptual subitizing.)


With numbers larger than 5, students typically see two subgroups of objects. Then they quickly combine the two subgroups to recognize the total number. For instance, when seeing 6 dots on a die, children might see two rows of 3, and recognize that 3 and 3 is 6. (Or they may see the first 3, then count up the remaining dots.) Subitizing cards with larger quantities help students learn conceptual subitizing, which is clearly connected to adding and subtracting.


Dot patterns are frequently used on subitizing cards. But it is also common to show ten-frames (or five-frames.) Sometimes other objects are also used (such as tally marks, fingers, or groups of items like pumpkins.)


You can purchase directly from Creative Services.


Here is a direct link to Heartland AEA's Creative Services website.

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Whats New in Our Heartland AEA Library?

New to Heartland AEA Library is the book Invigorating High School Math: Practical Guidance for Long-Overdue Transformation by Steven Leinwand and Eric Milou. The authors say it best in the introduction, " Our hope is that this book stimulates change, empowers high school mathematics teachers, and helps guide the profession on the critical journey to invigorate high school mathematics." Check it out!

The Always, Sometimes, Never Routine

Want to incorporate a quick routine that pushes your students to think critically about math concepts? The Always, Sometimes, Never Routine might be the perfect routine for you and you students. See the resources below for elementary and secondary resources for Always, Sometimes, Never.

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Elementary

  • ENRICH
  • #MTBoS


Secondary

  • ASNMath

We Need Your Input: What Summer Learning Needs Do You Have?

The math consultant team at Heartland AEA is making plans for summer offerings. We want to hear from you on what your needs and district needs might be so we can best meet those needs. Please take a few minutes to fill out the survey expressing your current needs for summer work. Thank you!

Heartland AEA Math Consultants

Barb Sersland bsersland@heartlandaea.org

Erika Buckner ebuckner@heartlandaea.org

John Butz jbutz@heartlandaea.org

Annie Carpenter acarpenter@heartlandaea.org

Sarah Miller smiller@heartlandaea.org

Diane Royer droyer@heartlandaea.org

Katie Scholl kscholl@heartlandaea.org

Molly Sweeney msweeney@heartlandaea.org

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The Heartland AEA math consultants love Twitter! This is where we gain new information from so many math experts across the globe.

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