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Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI)

Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI)

Math TK-6 Teaching & Learning Resources

Young Children's Mathematics Children's Mathematics: Cognitively Guided Instruction Extending Children's Mathematics: Fractions and Decimals Thinking Mathematically: Integrating Arithmetics & Algebra
Math Exchanges: Guiding Young Mathematicians in Small-Group Meetings Making Sense: Teaching and Learning Mathematics with Understandings Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You'd Had Transforming the Tasks with Number Choice K-3
       
Choral Counting & Counting Collections Number Sense Routines Grades 3-5 Intentional Talk Making Number Talks Matter

Table 1: CGI PD Resources

Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) PD RESOURCE (Click on Link to Access Resource)
LAUSD CGI LEADERSHIP PD SERIES VIDEOS Leadership Videos
LAUSD TEACHER INTERVIEWS & CLASSROOM VIDEOS Teacher Interviews and Videos
CHILDREN'S MATHEMATICS: CGI 2ND EDITION BOOK STUDY (LD WEST 2018) Book Study Materials
Collaborative Inquiry Structures to Support CGI Implementation at School Sites (for Math Coaches/Math Leads) Collaborative Inquiry Cycle Structures that Support CGI Implementation

Table 2: Links and Resources to support the implementation of CGI in the classroom

CGI Topic  Resource
Long Term Planning of GCI
 
 
 
CGI Warmups or Number Sense and Reasoning Routines
Task Banks and Task Development
 
Planning
 
Teaching
 
Assessing
 
Looking at Student Work
 
Observation Tools for Continuous Improvement
 
 
 
 
 
 
Problem Solving
Problem Types
 
 
 
Task Bank and Task Development
 
Planning with Tasks
Tasks by CGI Problem Type
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Multi Step Rich Tasks from the Project for Elementary Mathematics
 
CGI Word Problem Sets by Grade Level (CGI Math Teacher Learning Center)
 
Problem Solving Trajectories/Frameworks
 
 
Planning Templates for CGI Problem Solving 
 
Posing and Unpacking
 
ProblemsEliciting Students' Thinking/Conferencing
 
Engaging Students with Each Other’s Ideas using a Strategy Share
 
 
 
 
 
*Assessing

* Any problem on any day can be used as a formative assessment to elicit and use evidence of student thinking
From Project for Elementary Mathematics
 
 
Early Base Ten Assessment Materials (Later First Grade to Early Second Grade)
 
Base Ten Assessment Materials (2nd Grade and Emergent Third Grade)
 
Assessing Multiplicative Thinking (For each of Grades 3 through 5)
 
CGI Diagnostic Assessments K-5
 
 
 
 
CGI Number Fact Strategy Assessments
 
 
Looking at Student Work
 
 
 
 
Counting Collections
Tasks and Task Development 
 
Planning 
 
Teaching 
 
Assessing
 
Counting Collections Resources
 
Games
 
 
 
Getting Started in Setting Up the CGI Math Learning Environment and CGI Math Tool Kits
 
 
 
Additional Resources

CGI WORTHY PROBLEM SOLVING TASKS WEBSITES:

NEWLY ADDED: MATH MODELING WITH CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CONTEXTS (GRADE 3-5 TASKS):
https://bit.ly/MathModelingContextsTasksGr3-5 
 
Illustrative Mathematics (K-5 Problem-Based Tasks): 
 
NC Department of Public Instruction Elementary Math K-2 (CGI Worthy Problem-Based Tasks):
 
NC Department of Public Instruction Elementary Math 3-5 (CGI Worthy Problem-Based Tasks):
 
NEWLY ADDED: MATH MODELING WITH THREE ACT TASKS FROM GRAHAM FLETCHER AND OTHERS:
 

OTHER CGI WEBSITES

UCLA Center X Math Project:
 
DREME (Development and Research in Early Math Education):
 
CGI Math Teacher Learning Center:
 
Project for Elementary Mathematics:
 
Teaching Is Problem Solving:
 
Transforming the Task with Number Choice & Contexts That Connect to the Lives and Experiences of Your Children
 
 

CGI RELATED ARTICLES for Professional Learning Communities (PLCs):

Articles by Math Leaders about the Issues of Teaching Standard Algorithms
 
Basic Background for CGI Teachers
 

NUMBER SENSE & REASONING ROUTINE WEBSITES

Number Strings: A Community for Number String Design: https://numberstrings.com/
 
Which One Does Not Belong: http://wodb.ca/
 
Number Talk Images: http://ntimages.weebly.com/
 
 
 
Math Learning Center: Math at Home (Which One Doesn’t Belong, How Many?, Today’s Number, Same Different): https://mathathome.mathlearningcenter.org/search
 
Splat! for Elementary Teachers NEW ITEM:
 
 
 
Choral Counting: Creative Math Choral Counting Planner & Choral Counting Tool  (You need to create an account to access. Once you see a description of the tool click on BEGIN CHORAL COUNTING to use the tool)
 
 Teacher Education by Design (TEDD.org): CGI Math Warmups (Mental Math (Number Talks), Number Strings, True-False Sentences, Quick Images, Choral Counting, Counting Collection): TEDD.org: Elementary Math
 

UPCOMING CGI TRAININGS