Thursday, June 18, 2020

Guided Math Organization

As mentioned in my previous post about our new math curriculum, I did not get to use guided math groups as much this year as I would have liked. However, when I was cleaning out my Google Drive like I do every summer, I stumbled across this document and thought it was a must share, as it got me through math groups the previous school year.

I used this document to help me organize my small guided math groups. I would use one Google Slides presentation for each unit and just duplicate the pages as needed. In a typical unit I would try and pull small groups for each topic. For example, in our new curriculum for unit 1, I would have small groups for whole number multiplication and then small groups for whole number division. So I would use this one Slides presentation to plan out my centers for each topic.

The template on slide 1 is what I would post in the classroom (or project on the screen). It would provide details for each of the centers including what students should be doing at each one.

The templates on slides 2-6 are different rotation schedules and groups with/without icons.

The template on slides 7-8 is the small group lessons I would do for each group.

The template on slides 10-11 is how I collect my anecdotal notes.

Because this template is on Google Slides, my team would often collaborate and plan different portions of the lesson together. You can include hyperlinks to the different activities to eliminate keeping up with papers.

**Distance Learning tip:
Use this template to plan out differentiated activities for students to complete electronically. The math fluency, at your seat, and hands-on activities could be the same for all students, then make a copy of the first slide for each small group and change the activity in the teacher time section. You could even include a Google Meet or Zoom link with a specific date and time to meet with each small group.

Here is a completed example for you to see:


Click on image to download PDF. 
I removed the hyperlinks from my example so I don't have any copyright issues.
All icons are from the The Noun Project

To get a blank version of the template that you can use/edit yourself go to my Resources page or click on the button below.

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