Teachers Talking to Teachers
The following items are directly from experienced CMP teachers. Topics include:
- Pacing
- Developing Efficient Algorithms: How Do Models Help?
- What's Problem 1.1 All About?
- Technology and CMP
- Changing Classroom Routines
- Using Talk Moves to Support Mathematical Discussions in a CMP Classroom
- Notebooks
- Differentiation
- Preparing, Questioning, and Scaffolding Considerations
- Formative Assessment
- New CMP Teacher Suggestions
Each item contains valuable insights and suggestions that can inform teachers' planning, teaching, assessing, and reflecting.
Pacing
Are We Ever Going To Get There?
From the 2019 CMP Users' Conference
Presented by Mary Beth Schmitt
Are you feeling overwhelmed that there is never enough time? Explore with Mary Beth Schmitt strategies for pacing and prioritizing lesson designs and implementation so that students experience more in a year.
- Enhancing & Hindering during the Launch, Explore, and Summarize
- A Glance at Time of a Launch, Explore, Summary, and Unit Planning
Developing Efficient Algorithms: How Do Models Help?
Dividing Fractions: Let's Be Rational Problem 3.1 and 3.2
From the 2017 Users' Conference
Presented by Carolyn Droll & Jan Robinson
How can we think of making models as more than just drawing pictures? Using Let's Be Rational Problem 3.1 and Problem 3.2, two CMP teachers look at and analyze how students’ models can lead to division of fraction algorithms.
- Relating Student Work to Algorithms 1 minute 40 seconds
- Making Our Own Diagrams 1 minute 30 seconds
- Generating Number Sentences from Pictures 2 minutes 9 seconds
- Student-Generated Examples 1 minute, 34 seconds
- Explanation of the Student Generated Examples 3 minutes
- Summary Questions and Discussion 2 minutes 9 seconds
What's Problem 1.1 All About
From the 2016 Users' Conference
Presented by Cynthia Callard & Jennifer Kruger
Have you ever looked at the first problem in a CMP unit and wondered why these questions are being asked of students first thing? Have you ever wondered how students are expected to engage in these problems so early on in a unit?!? What is the purpose of these problems?
CMP teachers Cynthia and Jennifer, discuss a variety of purposes and possibilities for the use of Problem 1.1 and how to get the most “bang for your buck,” including how Problem 1.1 can be used as a formative assessment tool.
- Introducing Problem 1.1 2 minutes 55 seconds
- Case #1 Comparing Bits and Pieces, Problem 1.1 8 minutes 18 seconds
- Case #2 Variables and Patterns., Problem 1.1 11 minutes 9 seconds
- Case #3 Shapes and Designs, Problem 1.1 6 minutes 32 seconds
Technology and CMP
From the 2016 Getting to Know CMP Summer Workshops
Presented by Shawn Towle & Karrie Tufts
Shawn and Karrie share strategies for implementing the use of technology in CMP classrooms. The teachers share their decision making process for choosing technology resources as well as their experience in one-to-one classrooms.
- Framing Technology Choices 4 minutes 32 seconds
- Using CMP Activities: Paper Pool 4 minutes 2 seconds
- One to One and Collaboration 50 seconds
- Using CMP Activities: Painted Cubes 4 minutes 28 seconds
- Flipped Classrooms 1 minute 43 seconds
- Using CMP Activities: Pouring and Filling 3 minutes 37 seconds
Changing Classroom Routines
Strategies that Engage Students
From the 2016 Users' Conference
Presented by Kay Neuse
Are you tired of the same old routine? In the video of this session, Kay suggests way to shake it up a bit by incorporating some instructional strategies that are engaging for the students. Snowball fights, Secret Spies, and Celebrity Quizzes are only a few of the examples that will get your students motivated and smiling.
- Add-On's 2 minutes 3 seconds
- Calculators 1 minute 7 seconds
- Color 1 minute 31 seconds
- Dry Erase Desks 1 minute 19 seconds
- Edit My Thought 1 minute 56 seconds
- Gallery Walk 2 minutes 52 seconds
- Interactive Notebooks 2 minutes 53 seconds
- Spies 1 minute 51 seconds
- Stations 2 minutes 24 seconds
Jeopardy-Like Game Show for CMP Classrooms
Created by a CMP Teacher
This powerpoint was designed for teachers to use during or at the end of a Unit or as a review at the end of the year. Categories, questions, and answers can all be changed so teachers can adapt the game to the needs of their students.
This is a powerpoint version of the Math Fever game from the Grade 7 Unit, Accentuate the Negative. The powerpoint was created for the CMP2 version of the MathMania. It was inteded to review topics prior to Accentuate the Negative as a way for the class to explore getting "negative" and "positive" points. The current powerpoint includes the following topics from Grades 6 and 7: Operations with Fractions; Similarity; Probability; Area and Perimeter; Factors and Multiples.
Using Talk Moves to Support Mathematical Discussions in a CMP Classroom
From the 2016 Users' Conference
Presented by Cynthia Callard & Jennifer Kruger
Engaging students in mathematical discussions in a CMP classroom is an important part of the learning process. While students may be engaged with the problem and finding a solution, they sometimes are reluctant to share their strategies or questions.
Two CMP teachers explore some powerful “talk moves” (Chapin, O'Connor and Anderson, 2009) that they use with their CMP classes.
- Using Talk Moves to Support Mathematical Discussions in a CMP Classroom Video 11 minutes 5 seconds
Notebooks
From the 2014 and 2015 Getting to Know CMP Workshops
Presenters: Experienced CMP Teachers
In these videos, each teacher shares strategies for maintaining and assessing student notebooks. The teachers also discuss ideas for grouping students and getting students to participate in note taking, mathematical reflections, and taking ownership of their learning.
- Teri Keusch talks Notebooks 8 minutes 11 seconds
- Anne Marie Nicoll Turner talks Notebooks 2 videos, 13 minutes 13 seconds and 12 minutes 29 seconds
- Yvonne Slanger-Grant talks Notebooks 7 minutes 9 seconds
- Kathy Dole talks Notebooks 6 minutes 52 seconds
- Jim Mamer talks Notebooks 7 minutes 59 seconds
- Melanie Del Grosso talks Notebooks 5 minutes 11 seconds
Differentiation
From the 2010 CMP Users' Conference. Videos from a variety of presenters.
- General Differentiation Strategies presented by Teri Keusch, Jenny Jorgensen, and Miki Murray 35 minutes 48 seconds
- Title I Students presented by Kay Neuse 3 minutes 54 seconds
- Vocab Development for English Language Learners presented by Jim Wohlgehagen and Whitney Evan 14 minutes 6 seconds
- At Risk Students presented by Mark Church and Maria Taplin 10 minutes 46 second
Preparing, Questioning, and Scaffolding
From the 2010 Users' Conference
Presented by Whitney Evans and Jim Wohlgenhagen
This video provides “key ingredients” for preparing an effective lesson. The presenters talk specifically about preparing questions to help students access the mathematics at differentiated levels.
- Preparing and Planning 9 minutes 15 seconds
Formative Assessment
From the 2010 Users' Conference
Presented by Whitney Evans, Jim Wohlgehagen, and Jenny Jorgensen
This video provides a few strategies for gathering information from students. The purpose for using these strategies is to assess the students learning to make instructional decisions that meet the needs of all students.
- Formative Assessment 5 minutes 42 seconds
New CMP Teacher Suggestions
From the 2010 Users' Conference
Presented by Yvonne Grant, Teri Keusch, and Jim Mamer
Questions asked by Ryan Hoffman (a student teacher in a CMP classroom), Jill Newton (assistant professor at Purdue University who supervisors student teachers), and audience members.
A beginning CMP teacher and a professor who works with beginning CMP teachers ask questions of long-time CMP teachers.
- How do you convince students to work together? 5 minutes 51 seconds
- Is it important all groups share their work in the summary? 3 minutes 5 seconds
- How do I get away from helping too much? 3 minutes 56 seconds
- What do you do when students get wrong answers? 1 minute 50 seconds
- How do you decide what to assign for homework and how to grade it? 2 minutes 20 seconds
- How do you use notebooks? 3 minutes 43 seconds
- What do you do with students who finish ahead of others? 2 minutes 26 seconds