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Lesson Materials
Our focus in elementary school classrooms over the
past 10 years has been on students' learning and
reasoning. We have worked with students in second
through fifth grade in the greater Boston area.
 The current materials on this website are designed
for third through fifth grade. The third and fourth
grade lessons are designed to be presented biweekly, for
approximately 45 minutes, throughout the school year
while the fifth grade lessons are designed to be
presented weekly, for approximately 90 minutes. However,
you should use the materials however they fit best into
your classroom routine.
Please consider these materials "ideas for classroom
discussions" rather than off-the-shelf, ready to go
materials. They are in Word format so that you can edit
them to fit your classroom needs.
Classes are extremely interactive; opening with a
simple problem or demonstration and initial discussion,
followed by group work and then a comparison of the
diverse strategies used in solving the problems. A large
part of the time is dedicated to having students'
explain their thinking and their representations.
The Lessons:
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