Using Literacy Strategies to Gain Deep Mathematical Understanding
Listen Online
In both literacy and mathematics, students need to make inferences, synthesize, and reflect on their thinking in order to build conceptual and procedural knowledge. In this workshop, participants will examine strategies for developing conceptual understanding and procedural knowledge in mathematics: comprehension strategies, vocabulary instruction, and self-monitoring strategies. A particular focus will be on how mathematical and literacy processes for problem-solving and metacognitive reflection support each other. Through problem-solving with manipulatives, games, and truly problematic contexts, participants will analyze the mathematical and literacy processes they used as well as the mathematical concepts and procedures they learned.
Kateri Thunder
Kateri Thunder, Ph.D., has the pleasure of collaborating with learners and educators from school divisions and early learning centers around the world to translate research into practice. She has served as an inclusive early childhood educator, an Upward Bound educator, a mathematics specialist, an assistant professor of mathematics education at James Madison University, and Site Director for the Central Virginia Writing Project. Her research, writing, and presentations focus on equity and access in early childhood and mathematics education, as well as the intersection of literacy and mathematics for teaching and learning. Kateri has collaborated with thousands of educators to catalyze change in their classrooms, centers, and schools. She is the chair of NCTM’s Research Committee and co-creator of The Math Diet. Additionally, she is a best-selling author for Corwin’s Teaching Mathematics in the Visible Learning Classroom Series, the Success Criteria Playbook, and Visible Learning in Early Childhood.
Kateri Thunder's Webinars
