Advancing Equity and Strengthening Teaching through Elementary Mathematical Modeling

Community Tasks

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. Please register to receive password view videos.

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Primary-Grade Tasks
Library Diversity
Upper-Grade Tasks
Food Waste
Sports Clinic

Planning Resources
Community Tasks for Grades K-5

Community-based Modeling Prompts

Sample Making Prompts (Google Slides)

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Library Diversity (Grades 1- 2)

Viewing Guide

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Food Waste (Lesson Story)

Viewing Guide

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Food Waste (Grade 4)
Modeling Competencies

Viewing Guide

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Sports Clinic (Grade 5-6)
Modeling Competencies

Viewing Guide

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