How Long Do I Wait For Models and Strategies To Emerge? - A Math Mentoring Moment

<p><b>Today we speak with Christina Michaels - a teacher for over 24 years from Tucson Arizona. Christina has just taken our online course The Concept Holding Your Students Back: Unlocking the Key Understanding of Proportional Reasoning and is implementing many of the strategies she has learned. The pebble in Christina’s shoe is around the question: “When is the right time to show my students a model that they can use to represent their thinking?” </b></p><p><b>This is another  Math Mentoring Moment episode where we talk with a member of the Math Moment Maker Community who is working through struggles and together we brainstorm possible next steps and strategies to overcome them. </b></p><p><b>You’ll Learn: </b></p><ul><li><b>When is the right time to introduce that model for thinking;</b></li><li><b>How do I push the complexity on a problem so students see the usefulness of the mathematics being learned; </b></li><li><b>What tasks are useful for teaching ratios and proportions; and, </b></li><li><b>How do I take my own learning on proportional reasoning to the next level so I can support my students. </b></li></ul><p><b>Resources: </b></p><ul><li><a href='https://tasks.illustrativemathematics.org/content-standards/tasks/2049'><b>Perfect Purple Paint I</b></a><b> [Illustrative Mathematics Task]</b></li><li><a href='https://tasks.illustrativemathematics.org/content-standards/tasks/2050'><b>Perfect Purple Paint II</b></a><b> [Illustrative Mathematics Task]</b></li><li><a href='https://learn.makemathmoments.com/task/hot-chocolate'><b>Hot Chocolate</b></a><b> [Make Math Moments 6 Day Problem Based Unit]</b></li><li><a href='https://learn.makemathmoments.com/courses/the-concept-holding-your-students-back/'><b>The Concept Holding Your Students Back [Make Math Moments Course]</b></a></li></ul>