Episode 62 - The 80/20 Rule Applied to Teaching Math

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 62.  Today I am talking about The 80/20 Rule Applied to Teaching Math. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week over on my vlog TheRecoveringTraditionalist.com, I talked about</span> <a href= "https://www.therecoveringtraditionalist.com/teaching-math-after-coronavirus/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Teaching After The Coronavirus Shutdown</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.  Specifically, how to plan for what to teach next year knowing that your students may not have gotten a quarter of the instruction they would have gotten in the grade before yours.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I shared about the document created by Achieve The Core that details out the Major Work of each grade level.  The</span> <a href= "https://achievethecore.org/content/upload/SAP%20Focus%20Math%20K%E2%80%938%2011.12.14.pdf"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Focus by Grade Level document</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(or what was originally called the Content Emphases) shows the standard clusters that basically carry more weight in each grade.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the bottom of each page of the Focus by Grade Level document, in very tiny print, it states:</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">“At least 65% and up to approximately 85% of class time, with Grades K–2 nearer the upper end of that range, should be devoted to the major work of the grade.”</span></em></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That statement reminded me of the 80/20 rule, also known as the Pareto Principle.  It’s the idea that 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Get all the resources mentioned in this episode at buildmathminds.com/62</span></p>