TOOLKIT
Strengthen Math Mindsets For Students - Strategies to Reduce Math Anxiety
Support a Growth Mindset
Create a classroom culture that supports students in developing growth mindsets about math.
- Printable: "Math and Me" Math Beliefs Inventory
- Video and Lesson Plan: Teaching a Growth Mindset [MindsetKit]
- Online Course: How to Learn Math: For Students -- English | Spanish [Stanford Online]
- Printable: Family Math Letter and Interview -- English | Spanish
Embrace Mistakes
Mistakes can be wonderful parts of a math mindset classroom. Both teachers and students can learn from them if we construct a classroom where many aspects support the message that mistakes are welcome and valuable.
- Overview: 5 Strategies for Harnessing the Power of Mistakes
- Video & Activities: Three Ways to Celebrate Mistakes in Class [MindsetKit]
- Strategy: My Favorite No [Teaching Channel]
- Learn More: The Mistake-Friendly Classroom [Edutopia]
- Strategy: Inverted Test [MindsetKit]
Open the Math
Creating classrooms full of questions, problem solving, and wonder come from offering open math tasks and lessons to your students.
- Overview: Opening the Math in Your Classroom
- Learn More: Fluency Without Fear [YouCubed]
- Video Example: Fractions with Sense Making [YouCubed]
- Strategy: Which One Doesn't Belong [Mary Bourassa]
- Strategy: Notice and Wonder - Strategy Overview [National Council for Teachers of Mathematics]
- Resource: Notice and Wonder Images [Multiplicity Lab]