In a community-based modeling tasks, students explore issues in their local community by building awareness, using mathematics to make decision and taking action.
The resources in this section will help you implement community-based modeling tasks in your local community. Each example will provide planning slides, student handouts, viewing guides for video and annotated student work.
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Primary-Grade Tasks
Library Diversity
Planning Resources
Community Tasks for Grades K-5
Community-based Modeling Prompts
Library Diversity (Grades 1- 2)
Viewing Guide
As you watch, use this viewing guide to notice how the teachers in this video support students’ thinking and ideas, maintain high cognitive demand, disrupt status and power, and take action using graphical representation of data to make the classroom library more fair.
Video
Food Waste (Lesson Story)
Viewing Guide
As you watch, use this viewing guide to notice how the teacher supports student opportunities to build and explain their models, and to generate ideas for taking action.
Video
Food Waste (Grade 4)
Modeling Competencies
Viewing Guide
As you watch, use this viewing guide for problem posing and notice how the teacher supports students to pose and refine mathematical problems about a real world situation.
As you watch, use this viewing guide for the data table, and notice how the teacher supports students to draw on their understandings and experiences to make observations and pose questions.
Video
Sports Clinic (Grade 5-6)
Modeling Competencies
Viewing Guide
As you watch, use this viewing guide to notice how the teachers in this video support students’ thinking and ideas, maintain high cognitive demand, disrupt status and power, and take action using graphical representation of data to provide more access to youth sports.
