As part of Wexford's Math Pathway, the Junior and Intermediate divisions decided to focus on strategies. To help them gain a better understanding of what strategies their students had for Patterning and Algebra, they had them do a pre-assessment task prior to their PLC. The pre-assessment was done "cold turkey" with no pre-teaching prior to giving it to them. This allowed the teachers to get a real understanding of what strategies their students already had in place.
Where things changed was when they began to look at all of the strategies that their students were using from Grades 4-8. Each teacher looked through their pile of work, and pulled out the different strategies that their students were using. We then assembled those strategies into a Bansho format.
By doing this, it allowed us to look at the strategies that students already had - But also allowed us the opportunity to look at strategies that we may have not been familiar with and see how to use them. As well, it allowed us to make note of strategies that we want to model for our students, and also allowed us the chance to see how to help move out students along in their development of strategies.
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