EDU-780 Proportional Reasoning (3)

Participants work with their small group teaching assignments to integrate ideas of proportional thinking, such as using a factor-of-change, using a ratio table, using cross-multiplication, and scaling up and down. This work with their students provides an opportunity for exploring ways to identify a student’s level of understanding for proportional thinking, such as the ability to differentiate between additive and multiplicative relationships and developing tasks and activities that correct and deepen that understanding. In their classrooms, participants observe host teachers’ inclusion of these ideas and students’ understandings and articulations of proportional reasoning. Participants integrate ideas of proportional thinking into the teaching of their small group. Through this work, participants practice the repeating cycle of learning and exploring mathematics, assessing students’ thinking and knowledge, and finding ways to successfully teach these concepts. Grading: A-F only. Restriction: Teaching (MAT) [Urban Teachers].