February Postcard - See the Math – ST Math Help

Congratulations on the math growth your students have achieved, problem-solving their way into 2021 with JiJi!

The powerful visual models in ST Math provide a great opportunity to make important classroom connections while deepening student thinking around math concepts. How about some resources to incorporate ST Math into your lessons?

Use math mats and game mats to model the problems in the puzzles, build new problems, and make connections to symbolic notation.
Use ST Math puzzles to discuss student reasoning, identify misconceptions, and encourage the power of learning from mistakes.
Engage students in activities that extend beyond the concept presented in the puzzle through a task, another visual representation, or challenging questions.

Bonus: Participate in February’s Feel the Love campaign to encourage students to add 10 more minutes of daily ST Math practice. Time on ST Math is time spent learning!

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Effective Teaching Practice & ST Math: Use and connect mathematical representations.

Using and connecting representations leads students to deeper understanding. ST Math's visual to symbolic approach helps you introduce, discuss, and connect these different representations to support students in explaining their thinking.

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