Advancing Equity and Strengthening Teaching through Elementary Mathematical Modeling

Tasks

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Sharing Tasks

Sharing tasks involve modeling situations that allow students to share a snack by building up by sharing equally among sharers or distributing a large collection and seeing if they have enough.



Making Tasks

Making tasks involve modeling situations that allow students to scale up materials needed to make enough for a given quantity.


Community based Modeling Tasks

Community based modeling tasks involve modeling situations that connect to students’ lived experiences and issues relevant to students’ local community.