This section incorporates video clips of teachers utilizing effective instructional strategies for helping a wide range of students learn mathematical concepts and problem-solving processes. These include concrete-representational-abstract strategies, mnemonics, graphic organizers, and direct instruction.
Uses hands-on physical (concrete) models or manipulatives to represent numbers and unknowns
Draws or uses pictoral representations of the models
Involves numbers as abstract symbols of pictoral displays
Uses direct instruction to help students master basic or isolated numerical operations and skills
Click here to access the Mathematics Instruction Professional Development Resource Modules that complement these videos.