This afternoon’s meeting is focusing on the characteristics of a quality numeracy tasks.Give me a Q! Give me a U! Give me a A! Give me a L! Give me a I! Give me a T! Give me a Y! Give me Quality!
Paddy introduced us to the estimation foldable. The idea behind the foldable is that we want all our students P-6 to be consistently estimating, evaluating and naming the strategy used when calculating problems.
What other ways could you introduce this language in your classroom?
Examples of Quality Tasks:
Count on cubes:
Secret Pairs:
Bingo Halving/Doubling:
Dominoes-Higher/Lower:
What are the Characteristics of a quality task?.Check out the link for a well researched and accepted guide!
Do tasks that we currently do in our classrooms match the Characteristics of a quality task document?
Feel free to share your ideas in the comment section below…