TEACHING AND LEARNING with Illustrative Mathematics CURRICULUM

How can educators implement IM Math, a problem-based curriculum, building towards a world where all learners know, use, and enjoy mathematics? The purpose of this implementation series is to get educators ready to teach and learn within problem-based classrooms where student thinking is front and center. This series gives educators first-hand experience with and confidence in using the IM Math curriculum.

Intended Audience

This session is ideal for teachers, coaches, and math leaders who have adopted IM Math™ and are getting ready for implementing problem-based teaching and learning.

Learning Goals

• Identify opportunities for students to learn mathematical ideas through the experience of solving problems.
• Describe the overarching design structure and the structure of a lesson and the purpose of each component.
• Describe an instructional routine and how instructional routines help students:

○ play with mathematical ideas

○ learn by collaborating with each other

○ listen, respond to, and value each other’s thinking

• Prepare an instructional routine.
• Describe norms that build a positive, inclusive mathematical community.
• Locate resources and opportunities to enhance access and challenge for students with disabilities and English learners.
• Describe how the curriculum supports mathematical language development for all students.
• Explain how to use activity-specific opportunities to enhance access students have to the mathematics by supporting them with the language demands of a specific activity.
• Describe how mathematical language routines are used throughout the curriculum to support students’ mathematical sense-making and communication.
• Explain the purposes of different assessments within the curriculum.
• Identify multiple opportunities for assessment within the curriculum.
• Recognize the progression of understanding across the unit and how it is assessed.
• Begin to plan a unit and a lesson using the progression of understanding; using student thinking to drive learning.
• Trust the curriculum.

Notes on registration and fees

• MMSLN subsidizes the registration fee for all MMSLN Professional and Organizational Members to help offset the cost of Professional Learning certified by Illustrative Mathematics.
• MMSLN has requirements for a minimum number of educators registered for each event. This event will be postponed or cancelled if that minimum number is not met. In that case, you will be notified of the cancellation, your registration fee will be reimbursed, and MMSLN will work with you to schedule alternate PL to meet your needs.