Rogue Algorithm

The ten tasks in this set are the perfect way to build in your students the “habits of mind” of mathematically proficient thinkers while examining fractional parts of a number. The sequenced tasks in this set will provide you with an entire week’s worth of quality instructional materials – five instructional tasks and five follow-up assessment tasks, complete with administration guides, scoring guides, and other support materials – that will help your students explore with fractional parts of

Get more use out of your task cards with this free template that will allow you to turn any task card into an opportunity for a written response. I love using task cards (as do my kids!), and I learn a lot about their thinking from the conversations they have when they are working in pairs on a particular card. However, I wanted a way to give students an opportunity to write more fully about their mathematical thinking without doing a completely different activity, so I developed these templat

Build in your students the “habits of mind” of mathematically proficient thinkers as they explore with fraction expression with this quick one-page assessment task. This free product is a sample task from the Finding Fraction of a Number set of my Mastering the Practices: Instruction & Assessment Tasks. I designed the tasks in this set as a way to have my students explore an area of mathematical content in a way consistent with the behaviors described by the eight Standards for Mathematical