Ideas to Grow Your Math Classroom
At Symphony Learning, we LOVE Growth Mindset. When used in a thoughtful and rigorous way, Growth Mindset has the potential to challenge, inspire, and ignite learners’ appreciation for mathematics. The articles below were created as a series of explorations into the qualities that make Growth Mindset such a powerful agent for change.
An examination into one of the central ideas in growth mindset: your brain is a muscle that changes as you learn and grow.
When we allow mistakes and errors in our math classrooms, we unlock their potential as springboards for learning.
Carol Dweck shows how the addition of one word can be a powerful agent for change in our math classrooms.
How and what we praise in our classrooms can help promote the key strengths of a growth mindset.
Make Symphony Math a real contributor to your math classroom.
Use questions to disrupt the problem/solution cycle and promote growth in your math classroom.
Use models to encourage mastery in your math classroom.
The ability to persevere is a critical trait of the growth mindset learner.
A guide to using the skill-specific offine interventions available to your students.
Ideas on incorporating the idea of ‘justifying solutions’ into your math classroom.
Resources to help focus your math classroom in the last months of the school year.