Transforming the Task with Number Choice Grades K-3

The enduring challenge for every teacher is providing individual and responsive learning experiences for every student. Factor in other parts of the educator's mission-aligning teaching with content and practice standards, providing worthwhile tasks for class participation and discussion, assessing mathematical understanding and progress-and the challenge is even greater. Transforming the Task with Number Choice presents a uniquely powerful tool to accomplish these goals and more.

By choosing and sequencing productive arrays of numbers for problems, you can-

meet the needs and strengths of individual learners with accessible, equitable, and differentiated math;
address multiple content and practice standards;
create rich, worthwhile tasks with multiple entry points;
provide opportunities for students to vary their strategies and use the properties of operations;
shift students' focus from merely calculating answers to examining number relationships;
assess students' abilities and monitor their understanding.

Choosing numbers that are "just right" is hard, but Transforming the Task with Number Choice supports and guides you by offering-

strategies for aligning problem-solving tasks with students' skills to build their understanding;
examples of and strategies for using number choice to address a variety of Common Core (or other) content and practice standards;
samples of work illustrating how students respond to different number choices;
advice on how to focus on number choice within curricular materials
tools for getting started and assessing students' work, including downloadable