Come explore advanced activities in algebraic thinking to excite your talented elementary students. Field-tested both in regular classrooms and gifted programs, these activities focus on critical and creative thinking using intriguing contexts and games. Students investigate patterns and make generalizations, analyze functions and equations, and create new problems. Encourage your students to work like mathematicians and love math!
Learning Objectives:
Implement advanced math activities that focus on algebraic thinking with talented elementary students across different grade levels and different classroom settings.
Conduct challenging and engaging discussions to promote critical and creating thinking in student mathematicians using rich math questions connected to the activities.
Develop high-level thinking skills and processes in talented students including discovering patterns, making generalizations, analyzing problems, and posing and solving new problems.
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