Bali Day 1

It looks like the IB expects that math that is not authentically integrated with a UOI should have it's own planner written on the IB's planner. I think tomorrow will be interesting at the workshop because we are going to talk about planners, both integrated and stand-alone units. From what the two workshop leaders have said so far, they don't 'do' math through investigations as we do them. The way they talk about 'doing' stand-alone units is to take one strand and develop a deep understanding of all of its facets. However, I've been able to talk to a few other teachers about what we are doing, and they are very excited. Should be interesting.

 Grade 4 teachers came up with a bunch of stuff-
McRel - I will need help with this one - I always have trouble navigating the site. I have this link and this document.
iMath - a Queensland textbook, inquiry based - has the sports stadium inquiry.
NZMath
maths300 (a website - on our wiki's resource page)
Scott also shared these with me
Studyladder (similar to Mathletics, but it's free).
iBoard - with lots of support for teachers
Lots of other interesting stuff. I had a bit of an insight when I was asked to put down some goals. As often happens when you write down a question, you come up with an answer. My question, or my goal, was to improve my ability to pre-assess. I came up with a solution immediately. Note down what we want students to learn and then work with Katy to find evidence. Katy should look at half of the class, and I will look at the other half. Other ways to pre-assess include Rocket Writing, Thinking Trades (although I'm not sure how that works, will have to view the video at IB's OCC Opening Classroom Doors) and Provocations (remember to include what I find difficult and what I do well)
The other goals, or questions, that I have include
Improving differentiation strategies - this was modelled well in our workshop when Glen and Bec set up a task to scaffold the learning where tasks of increasing complexity were given, and we worked on them as far as we could go, or wanted to go.
Using inquiry in math
integrating math into the UOI

Another thing we need to do more of in class is reflection, will have to look at that video from Edutopia. There are a sick amount of resources and toolbox items I have to include, but it's late and I'm going to bed.