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Elizabeth Sanchez
Draft of Inquiry Research Plan
November 30, 2016
giving assistance to those students who just need the extra help in learning. This inquiry connects
to my personal and professional goals because it focuses on creating a better learning experience
for my students and at the same time in a way differentiating for students. I also have a passion
in empowering students to take control of their own learning. So in participating in this inquiry I
hope to show students that they can do just that through getting to the same result in different
ways, whichever way suits them best. The students will hopefully know how they learn best and
what engages them to make the correct choice. This leads my wondering to be what can I do to
enhance my students learning experience? More specifically, I can ask how I can incorporate
foundational math skills in my number talks to better my students learning of mathematics.
Elizabeth Sanchez
Draft of Inquiry Research Plan
November 30, 2016
Literature Connections, Data Collection, and Timeline
Article Citation
Moving a School With
Number Talks
technique helps to
build a classroom
a classroom community
share misconceptions.
Contest Corner:
topic.
Post mathematical
Increasing Classroom
discussion sentence
Discourse and
Computational Fluency
students
in "doing
Journals given to
mathematics." When
ideas in math
Elizabeth Sanchez
Draft of Inquiry Research Plan
November 30, 2016
strategies with others,
foundational skills
and/or in writing.
can lead to great
NUMBER TALKS.
mathematical
discussions in class.
thinking.
Incorporate
students seeing
mathematical debates,
based on students
finding answers to
interest.
questions involving
addition, subtraction,
competitions and
Elizabeth Sanchez
Draft of Inquiry Research Plan
November 30, 2016
multiplication, and
fluency games so
incorporate technology
Elizabeth Sanchez
Draft of Inquiry Research Plan
November 30, 2016
learning experiences
This will allow me to see how the students
journals)
Field Notes
Elizabeth Sanchez
Draft of Inquiry Research Plan
November 30, 2016
empowering students
Student work over time
matter/inquiry/wondering
Will help me see if my strategies are working,
student improvement
Collaboration can help me with my teaching
and see how other teachers teach the content
Timeline:
First Week- Set up classroom environment for the new procedures of Number Talks, distribute
math journals, and begin recording the practices of the students in math block to see what needs
to be done to start the following week.
Second Week- Begin the number talks and use of strategies, will ask students the first week of
implementing to assess if they like the strategies and if it works for them. This incorporates
empowering students to take control of their own learning. I will also begin collecting data listed
above to improve for the following week.
Third Week- I will implement any strategies that I was not able to the week prior, if any. Make
adjustments if needed form the students feedback. During this week I will begin recording
lessons to be able to look back at the video and take notes on the lesson and success of number
talks. Collaborate with co teacher to see what is going well and what we can improve.
Elizabeth Sanchez
Draft of Inquiry Research Plan
November 30, 2016
References
"Making Number Talks Matter." California Bookwatch, July 2015. Literature Resource Center,
go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=LitRC&sw=w&u=tamp44898&v=2.1&id=GALE
%7CA422328338&it=r&asid=ead4e84366fbfe9811602726794c357a. Accessed 30 Nov. 2016.
Flick, M. f., & Kuchey, D. k. (2015). Contest Corner: Increasing Classroom Discourse and
Computational Fluency through Number Talks. Ohio Journal Of School Mathematics,
(71), 38-41.
Wargaski, S. (2016). Making Number Talks Matter: Developing Mathematical Practices and Deepening
Understanding, Grades 4-10. Teaching Children Mathematics, (2), 117.
BOURASSA, M. m. (2016). TECHNOLOGY CORNER: NUMBER TALKS. Ontario Mathematics
Gazette, 54(3), 27-28.
NAUMAN, J. (2016). Moving a School With Number Talks. Principal, 95(5), 40.
Miller, G. (2015). Five Strategies for a Better Math Argument. New Teacher Advocate, 22(4), 1415.
Elizabeth Sanchez
Draft of Inquiry Research Plan
November 30, 2016
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