Have you heard of thin-slicing tasks? I hadn't, until I read "Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12" by Peter Liljedahl. This idea was one of my favorites! Basically, thin-slicing tasks are questions on a given topic that gradually increase in difficulty. Students are only given one task at a time to complete. Since I wasn't ready to dedicate a whole period to allow students to learn by thin-slicing tasks, I had to come up with a way to incorporate it. I decided to do this during Math Workshop. One of the stations is "Meet with the Teacher" and that is where I used them. This is how I ran it... I have a table in the back of my room with seats for four students and a large white board on the wall behind the table. Since I have a class of 28 and need larger group sizes, I used 2-3 desks also, facing the white board. When students came to that station, all they needed was their calculator. My setup included: Ind...
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