Returning to Rigorous Mathematics, Part 1: Using Spaced Practice to Accelerate Learning

Presented by Sara Delano Moore, Ph.D., Vice President for Content and Research, ORIGO Education

Sponsored by ORIGO Education

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As students return to a hopefully more typical school year, learning is likely to be anything but typical. Student and teacher experiences over the past 18 months have varied greatly and classrooms are filled with students representing a wider range of learning needs than ever before. The challenge for teachers is to help each student move their mathematics learning forward. While it will take time for most students to return to typical “on-grade-level” expectations, we must support students to move forward rather than picking up instruction where “regular school” left off in March 2020. Responding to this wide range of learners is part of the job in education; the pandemic has made this part of the work more prominent in many classrooms.

In this first edWebinar of a two-part series, Sara Delano Moore, Ph.D. will illustrate the interconnection of two important ideas for long-term mathematics success: spaced practice and accelerated learning. Spaced practice gives the brain time to forget, to remember, and to consolidate learning. These steps are the foundation for long-term encoding and retrieval. Accelerated learning brings ideas from past learning forward on a “just-in-time” basis. Using the progression from basic facts to more fluent computation, the examples that will be discussed show how to help students learn content they might not know from prior years by emphasizing the connection to current learning. Join Sara to explore instructional sequences and strategies for supporting every learner while emphasizing current content.

This edWebinar will be of interest to teachers and school and district leaders at the elementary level. 

Returning to Rigorous Mathematics, Part 2: Strengthening Student Thinking with the Practice and Process Standards

About the Presenter

Sara Delano Moore, Ph.D. serves as Vice President for Content and Research and Chair of the Mathematics Advisory Board at ORIGO Education. A fourth-generation educator, Sara’s work emphasizes the power of deep understanding and multiple representations for learning mathematics. Her interests include building mathematical comprehension and operation sense, incorporating high-quality literature into mathematics instruction, and connecting mathematics with engineering design and computational thinking. Sara has served as a classroom teacher of mathematics and science, a mathematics teacher educator at the University of Kentucky, Director of the Kentucky Center for Middle School Academic Achievement, and Director of Mathematics & Science at ETA Hand2Mind. She has authored numerous articles in professional journals and is a co-author of the Mathematize It! series of books. She is also a member of the Visible Learning for Mathematics writing team, including two volumes of the Teaching Mathematics in the Visible Learning Classroom series.

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