PlanningTeachingAssessmentReflection/debriefing

How to use Interact

Illustrating slides are from:

Math QuestGrades 4–9

Demonstration Unit

Prioritize your teaching goals. Are they:to reinforce recent general topic knowledge?to authentically assess student understanding of the overall or of a specific topic?to teach a general topic? to teach a specific sub-topic?

Planning

Read the Overview to match your teaching goals with each segment’s:

goalsmethodologiesstudent work extension activities

Planning

Planning

Decide if you will include:the entire six week unitcompetitive team elementsthe grade-level, above or below grade level options

Planning

Check the detailed unit time chart to calculate class time needed for your goals. Adapt the suggested schedule to your needs.

Planning: Set Up

Use the Set Up Directions to:• learn effective student grouping• plan ahead for differentiation• assign student roles

Planning: Set Up

Use the Set Up Directions to prepare:• student handouts• student folders/portfolios• materials needed

Teaching: Daily Directions

Each day details:• handouts

and materials • step-by-step

procedures

Teaching: Daily Directions

Teaching Tips in the margins of the teacher’s guide provide handy implementation suggestions.

Teaching: Daily Directions

Math Quest provides tiered, scripted lessons for six problem solving strategies. Each can be used alone or in sequence.

Teaching: Daily Directions

add to the daily directionsmodify the daily directionsreplace the daily directions

Optional and Enrichment Activities for differentiation are provided each day to:

Teaching and Assessment

Guiding rubrics should be given to the students at the start of a task and discussed within groups.

Teaching: Math Quest

As student groups purchase supplies, they gain experience in planning, record keeping and basic math.Students immediately take ownership of their learning experience!

Teaching: Math Quest

Fate cards drawn each day add chance and excitement.Unpredictability is just like life, adding authenticity.

Teams may gain, lose, stay the same or have humor added to their quest.

Assessment: Rubrics

Rubrics take the guess work out of authentic assessment for teachers and students.

Assessment: Formative

Formative assessments can be quickly given using additional questions (and answer keys) provided.

Assessment: Authentic

Multiple intelligences and student interests are addressed with problem creation assignments.

Assessment: Traditional

Traditional tests demonstrate student learning and provide experience for standardized tests.

Assessment: Culminating

Wrap up the unit with a special activity—an awards ceremony for winning teams or a competition with a neighboring classroom—to give a sense of accomplishment and mastery, and keep the fun in learning.

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