Guide to Introducing Standards for Math Practice to Your Students (Grades 3-5)

Guide Students to Become Mathematical Thinkers with Standards for Math Practice\nThis 38-page teaching resource breaks down the Standards for Mathematical Practice so upper elementary students can understand and apply them. The guide includes 8 lessons to help students adopt a growth mindset and develop perseverance when problem solving. Each lesson outlines the standard, explains it in kid-friendly language, details how to introduce it, provides a sample problem to work through, and contains a printable anchor chart. Implementing this resource at the beginning of the year establishes an intentional classroom culture of mathematical discourse and metacognition. However, the standards-aligned lessons can be used at any time to reinforce the habits of mind students need to tackle multi-step word problems and open-ended performance tasks.