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Differentiation

Constructing A Meaningful Math Project

Constructing A Meaningful Math Project

If you’re attempted to differentiate your math program through preassessment, I’m sure you’ve stumbled across students who have already demonstrated mastery of an upcoming unit. Typically, we try to come up with something deep and meaningful for these students to work on while we instruct the class. This, however, is a tricky problem with no simple solution.

Tags: differentiation, Math, projects

Math Project: Furnish A Hotel

Math Project: Furnish A Hotel

Starting with an IKEA catalog, a hotel furnishing math project was born. Use this project as a tool to differentiate your math instruction and impart some practical knowledge on your students.

Tags: differentiation, Math, projects

Differentiate Math With Complexity and Novelty

Differentiate Math With Complexity and Novelty

Looking for some ways to challenge your advanced mathematicians? If you’d like to keep them on the same topic as the rest of your class, consider increasing the complexity of your current unit. If they’re in need of more advanced curriculum to keep their creativity flowing, try to bring in novel ways of looking at math.

Tags: complexity, differentiation, Math, novelty

Making Inferences: Think Like An Anthropologist

Making Inferences: Think Like An Anthropologist

Like all HM comprehension skills, “Making Inferences” appears yearly beginning in kindergarten, so I know my 6th graders have had practice, and may have mastered, the skill. To differentiate, I turned to Sandra Kaplan’s model of “thinking like a disciplinarian.” Students will be expected to think from the perspective of an expert, making well-informed inferences.

Tags: comprehension, differentiation, Expert Thinking, Houghton Mifflin, Language Arts

10 Ways To Differentiate Tomorrow

10 Ways To Differentiate Tomorrow

Ten simple ways to alter your classroom for the benefit of gifted learners.

Tags: differentiation

Ask Them Which Is Better

Ask Them Which Is Better

Moving from analysis to evaluation sure makes things more fun. Why? Check out these examples. Which would you rather answer?

Tags: assessment, Blooms Taxonomy, Critical Thinking, differentiation, judgement, questions

iPods, Apple Stock, & Authentic Math

iPods, Apple Stock, & Authentic Math

Entice your gifted mathematicians with real world data and an authentic problem such as: “Let’s say that instead of buying the original iPod, you spent the same amount of money on Apple stock. How much would that stock be worth now?”

Tags: data, differentiation, Math, math icons

Do I Have To Work In A Group?

Once in a while, a student will ask me a question that makes me realize how much more there is to know about my class. One child came up and quietly asked me, “Do I have to work in a group?”

Tags: differentiation, Social Emotional

Enticing Gifted Students To Read Twice

Enticing Gifted Students To Read Twice

Think you’re lucky to get your students to read a story once? Can’t imagine convincing a class to read a story through again? The key is giving your gifted students an enticing purpose for a reread.

Tags: Depth and Complexity, differentiation, Houghton Mifflin, Language Arts, reading

Offer Choice With Extension Menus

Offer Choice With Extension Menus

One way to build flexibility into your classroom is through extension menus. Extension menus require upfront work to build, but offer endless options for your gifted students. Make them a part of your classroom culture and you’ll enable students to interact with content in meaningful ways.

Tags: differentiation, Groups, preassessment

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