Planning your math lessons

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Planning your math lessons

• Questions to ask yourself
• J. Hill

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Good lessons dont just happen

• They are the result of careful and thoughtful
  planning.

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What mathematics is to be taught?

• Which SOL?
• Where is this material in relation to the
  curriculum benchmarks?
• Where is this material found in the text?
• What math might need to be reviewed in order for
  students to understand the new material?

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What type of lesson might work best with this
material?

• Direct teaching lesson (Madeline Hunter model I
  do, we do, you do)
• Cooperative group lesson
• Problem solving based lesson (John Van De Walle)

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What will YOU do in this lesson?

• What opening will you use?
• What problems will you demonstrate?
• What explanations will you give?
• What connections to students life outside of
  school will you make to the new material?
• How is the new material similar to/different from
  previous math learned?

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What materials should be used?

• What textbook resources are available?
• What manipulatives would help students
  understanding with this lesson?
• What technologies would be appropriate for this
  lesson?
• What internet resources (websites, videos, etc.)
  could be used?
• What professional resources might be useful?
• What reading activities would tie in with the
  lesson?

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What will STUDENTS do in this lesson?

• Which problems will they work?
• Will they work alone or in cooperative groups?
• What writing (note taking, journals) will they
  do?
• What practice activities will they do?
• What homework will they be assigned?

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How will you know if the lesson was successful?

• How will you assess students learning?
• How will you reinforce this lesson in the
  days/weeks that follow?
• What supplemental help will you provide for
  students who were not successful?

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What good teaching techniques will you be sure to
use?

• How will you involve ALL students?
• What reinforcement/recognition will you use?
• What mental math will students do?
• What nonlinguistic representations will be used
  by you and your students?

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Remember these adages

• He who fails to plan, plans to fail (old
  proverb)
• Good fortune is what happens when opportunity
  meets with planning. (Thomas Edison)