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How to Create and Teach Math Tasks

When creating tasks to support learning aligned with core mathematical standards, the planning is the big part of the task. Start by asking, "What's my mathematical objective?" Then in planning a math task, teachers identify and make available appropriate tools and resources for students to choose from:

Determine how and when students will work independently
Determine how and when students will work in groups
Decide the format in which students will record and present their work
Plan how the task may be approached in different ways by students at varying levels of understanding

Diana Suddreth, secondary math specialist for the Utah State Office of Education, explains how this approach can make a difference in the classroom: "Instead of a teacher proposing and expecting students to do it a certain way, they propose a math task that has multiple entry points so there's not necessarily one right way to do it."

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