Description
After our first year adopting the Go Math series, I found myself supplementing the book with materials for my students to help support all learners. I teach a wide range of students that includes a class of all gifted/accelerated students that could use some extra challenge to having a co-taught class that could use more supports. Therefore, I created these companion guides for each chapter (but could be used not only for Go Math but the topic in general in any 7th grade class) as a one-stop toolkit to help me differentiate my lessons. While I do not always use all parts with all classes, this provides me with resources from a wide range of places and with a wide reach that culls resources to meet the various needs of all my students.
Included in each module packet is:
- A place to track growth throughout the chapter (I use the Assessment Readiness page in the book from each chapter as my pre-test)
- A place to breakdown vocabulary that models best practices from Marzano and (examples, non-examples, pictures, memory tricks--this is often teachers' favorite part of the packet)
- Goal Setting
- Targets (includes multiple places for students to reflect on their learning)
- Assignments--A list of the assignments I give my students for the chapter
- Warm-ups--interesting hooks, book companion guides, challenge questions (I sometimes use for students that finish early as an additional challenge)
- Memory Tricks/Songs for their coordinating lessons
- Checkpoint quizzes for each lesson--Research shows that students need tested soon after to help learning go into long-term storage
- Reflections on targets and attributes of good mathematicians/classmates
- Student Self-Evaluation
I will be uploading this as a word document so that you can tweak it for your own purposes. I hope you find this helpful, thanks for looking!
**Please note that the answer key will not always look identical to the student packet. I am constantly updating formatting and fixing/improving items on the student packet so there may be some small differences between the two.
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Description
After our first year adopting the Go Math series, I found myself supplementing the book with materials for my students to help support all learners. I teach a wide range of students that includes a class of all gifted/accelerated students that could use some extra challenge to having a co-taught class that could use more supports. Therefore, I created these companion guides for each chapter (but could be used not only for Go Math but the topic in general in any 7th grade class) as a one-stop toolkit to help me differentiate my lessons. While I do not always use all parts with all classes, this provides me with resources from a wide range of places and with a wide reach that culls resources to meet the various needs of all my students.
Included in each module packet is:
- A place to track growth throughout the chapter (I use the Assessment Readiness page in the book from each chapter as my pre-test)
- A place to breakdown vocabulary that models best practices from Marzano and (examples, non-examples, pictures, memory tricks--this is often teachers' favorite part of the packet)
- Goal Setting
- Targets (includes multiple places for students to reflect on their learning)
- Assignments--A list of the assignments I give my students for the chapter
- Warm-ups--interesting hooks, book companion guides, challenge questions (I sometimes use for students that finish early as an additional challenge)
- Memory Tricks/Songs for their coordinating lessons
- Checkpoint quizzes for each lesson--Research shows that students need tested soon after to help learning go into long-term storage
- Reflections on targets and attributes of good mathematicians/classmates
- Student Self-Evaluation
I will be uploading this as a word document so that you can tweak it for your own purposes. I hope you find this helpful, thanks for looking!
**Please note that the answer key will not always look identical to the student packet. I am constantly updating formatting and fixing/improving items on the student packet so there may be some small differences between the two.
