How we teach
Thinking Classroms | Inquiry-based Learning | Purposeful Play
Thinking Classrooms
I Notice, I Wonder
In every class, we consistently prompt our students with, 'What do you notice? What do you wonder?' This simple technique effectively inspires students to explore their own mathematical inquiries, an aspect often overlooked in our teaching environments. Truly engaging with mathematics involves learning to pose such questions. Students are notably more driven to delve into questions they've devised themselves compared to those handed to them
Thinking Tasks that leads to deeper learning
To foster genuine thought in our students, we must present them with stimulating material—content that not only demands thought but also promotes it. In the realm of mathematics, this is presented as a specific task, and choosing the right one is vital. Studies show that we should provide tasks that encourage deep thinking.
Inquiry-based learning
At The Math School, we designed our lesson to include scaffolding activities, frequent opportunities for formative assessment, as well as powerful guiding questions to ensure that leads to deep understanding of mathematical concept. At the start of every lesson, students discuss about driving questions that make clear connections between activities “and the underlying conceptual knowledge
Purposeful Play
Each lesson students are led into teacher-guided play which is planned and facilitated to achieve learning outcomes. Our teachers have an understanding of both content and play pedagogy to design learning spaces that are interactive, intentional, investigative, personalized to interests and needs, scaffolded to support discovery and connections to prior learning, and aligned to academic goals and standards