October 2017, Vol. 24, Issue 2
Trying Three-Act Tasks with Primary Students
Kendra Lomax, Kristin Alfonzo, Sarah Dietz, Ellen Kleyman, and Elham Kazemi
An extended vignette demonstrates a new take on problem solving: how to provide multiple entry points for K–grade 2 learners, leverage their intuitive understandings of the world around them to make sense of and solve problems, and engage them in rich mathematical modeling.