#WRITING ROUGH DRAFT FREE#

After the first-round discussion, students go back to their work, making revisions as warranted.

IMPORTANT: Be sure you ask students to stop and share while they are still in the middle of their work so they can participate in вЂњrough draft sharingвЂќ long before theyвЂ™re finished.

Ask students to discuss their thinking so far with a partner or small group.

Help students understand that the focus is much more about the process and on their representations rather than on the вЂњright answer.вЂќ Of course, students may use manipulatives and visuals throughout the process.

Provide individual work time for students to attempt to represent their thinking while working solo.

#WRITING ROUGH DRAFT FREE#

If you need a good task, check out the free tasks on the Illustrative Mathematics website.

Introduce a mathematical task to your students, giving them a few minutes to individually think about what the task is asking them to do and how they might respond.

Click here for a creative example you may glean from.

First, set up norms to help students understand the value of rough draft thinking.

Amanda JansenвЂ™s NCTM session a couple of days ago, rough drafts belong in math class, as well. However, as I learned while attending Dr. After all, writing a rough draft is something I work on with my students during the ELA block, not during math class. When do вЂњrough draftвЂќ and вЂњmath taskвЂќ ever land in the same sentence? Honestly, when I first heard these two put together, it took me a couple of minutes to figure it out.

Writing rough draft