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Agenda
9:00-9:30
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10:30-10:45
 10:45-11:15
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11:15-12:00
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Announcements
Marcy’s Dots
Undoing Marcy’s Dots
Break
Documenting Algebraic
Thinking on ___
The Peasant Algorithm
Lunch
1:00-1:30
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2:00-2:30
Peasant Algorithm Discussion
Looking Back at the Introduction
Looking Back at the MTRs
Evaluations
Documenting Student Learning Goals
Explore the connections between algebra
learning goals and the three habits of mind.
 Make links among algebra learning goals,
features of the habits of mind, and
mathematics tasks that can help document
students’ algebraic thinking.
 Continue to use the A-HOMs as a way to
describe and understand algebraic thinking.
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Marcy’s Dots/Undoing Marcy’s Dots
Work on Marcy’s Dots and Undoing Marcy’s
Dots with your group.
 You may want to jot down notes about your
algebraic thinking or the strategies you use to
solve the problem.
 Post your work.
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MTR—Marcy’s Dots
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What would you like to recall about the different
strategies and/or solutions used by your colleagues?
Record the approaches and strategies you would like
to remember.
What would you like to recall about the algebraic
thinking? Record the specific features of habits of mind
that you have seen in the different solutions.
What would you like to recall about the different
strategies and/or solutions used by your students?
Record the mathematical approaches or strategies you
would like to remember.
Using Mathematics Tasks to Document
Algebraic Thinking
Tasks
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Postage Stamp
Crossing the River
Sums of Consecutive
Numbers
Staircase Problem
Carnival Bears
Candles Problem
Marcy’s Dots/Undoing
Marcy’s Dots
In your group…
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Review your assigned task.
Identify the Algebraic Habits
of Mind in the task.
Identify the TEKS addressed
in the task.
Post your work.
CLOSING SESSION
The Peasant Algorithm
Work with a partner on the Peasant
Algorithm.
 There are four parts to the problem, so
monitor your time carefully! You have 45
minutes to work.
 We are not intending this as a problem for
students.
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Peasant Algorithm Discussion
In what ways does the Peasant Algorithm
involve algebraic thinking?
 What features of Abstracting from
Computation do you see in your work?
 In what ways did you explain how the Peasant
Algorithm works in Part 4?
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Re-read the Introduction
Were there ideas that caught your attention—
perhaps important ideas or pieces of
information—that you didn’t catch the first
time?
 Are there any points that are still particularly
confusing to you, or about which you have
lingering questions?
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Looking Back at the MTRs
One of the main goals of FAT has been to put
special attention on mathematical thinking, not just
mathematical content. What strikes you about the
mathematical thinking you see represented in your
MTR’s?
 Pick a problem from the MRT’s that you will use
with your “students”. What do you hope will
happen when they work on the problem? What can
you do to make your hope come true?
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Debbie Hill
Henderson State University
1100 Henderson St., Box 7850
Arkadelphia, AR 71999-0001
870.230.5067
[email protected]