DAY 5- HOW TO READ LIKE A MATHEMATICIAN

 What Is Close Reading?

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Close reading is a purposeful, critical analysis of a text that focuses on significant details or patterns in order to develop a deep, precise understanding of the text’s form, craft, and meanings. It is a key requirement of the Common Core State Standards and directs the reader’s attention to the text itself.

Close reading includes:

• Using short passages and excerpts
• Diving right into the text with limited pre-reading activities
• Focusing on the text itself
• Rereading deliberately
• Reading with a pencil
• Noticing things that are confusing
• Discussing the text with others
  • Think-Write-Pair-Share, Talk with Your Neighbor, or Pivot A-B
  • Numbered Heads
  • Timed round-robin
  • Small groups and whole class
• Responding to Text Dependent Questions

​Top 20 Tier 2 Vocabulary Words for Math

Tier 2 words include frequently occurring words that appear in various contexts and topics and play an important role in verbal functioning across a variety of content areas. These are general academic words and have high utility across a wide range of topics and contexts. Another way to think of Tier 2 vocabulary is as cross-curricular terms. For example, the term “justify” and “predict” frequently appear in Science, Social Studies, and English texts.

Here is a comprehensive list of the Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary words in the Common Core.


Analyze (evaluate each part)
Compare (to liken)
Contrast (find differences)
Demonstrate (prove, explain)
Describe (depict, illustrate, tell)
Argument (line of reasoning)
Conclusions (an argument deduced from evidence, inferences)
Evidence (signs, proofs, facts)

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​Reference

http://www.marzanoresearch.com/media/documents/reproducibles/vocab-common-core/sourcelistforpartIIandIIIterms.pdf

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Determine (decide)
Develop (explain, elaborate)
Evaluate (assess)
Explain (clarify, describe)
Identify (recognize, find, label)
Infer (deduce, conjecture)
Draw (describe, show)
Distinguish (identify differences)
Suggest (imply)
Interpret (read between the lines)
Organize (arrange, systematize)
Illustrations (examples, instances)