GPS: Developing Flexibility with Games

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Katherine Ariemma Marin University of Louisville

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Jennifer Bay-Williams University of Louisville

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Volume 117: Issue 12
Page(s):
931–935
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5951/MTLT.2024.0250
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Growing Problem Solvers provides four original, related, classroom-ready mathematical tasks, one for each grade band. Together, these tasks illustrate the trajectory of learners’ growth as problem solvers across their years of school mathematics.

Supplementary Materials

    • PK-2 Task Sheet: Make Ten Tens (26 KB)
    • 3-5 Task Sheet: Making Wholes (81 KB)
    • 6-8 Task Sheet: Zero Balance (24 KB)
    • 9-12 Task Sheet: Starting Step Straights (145 KB)
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© 2024 by National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Inc.
Page Count:
5
Article Category:
Research Article
Received:
25 Sep 2024
Accepted:
10 Oct 2024
Print Publication Date:
01 Dec 2024
Online Publication Date:
Dec 2024
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