Planning for Rigor in Mathematics Instruction
Look at IPG’s to identify the concept or focus of the lesson.
How many days is this concept taught?
1
IPG
What TEKS are going to be addressed in this lesson? (Read the
Knowledge and Skill)
2
TEKS
What are the students expected to be able to do?
What are the students’ strengths and weaknesses of this concept?
Look at the clarifying lessons / activities to understand how the TEKS
are supposed to be taught.
3
Clarifying
Activities
Use ideas from the Clarifying Lesson s in the sections titled
Questioning, Probing, and what to Listen for and what to Look for.
Look at the Side by Sides to understand how the TEK(S) could be
tested?
4
Side
by Sides
How could the way the items were tested impact the teaching of the
concept?
What “Big Ideas” are being addressed?
5
6
7
Topic
Folder
Rigor/
Anchors of
Support
Van de Walle
and other
Resources
(District Provided)
Look at the lesson in the topic folder to determine the amount of rigor
or the lack of rigor based on the TEKS.
How can you create a more rigorous lesson?
How are you adding rigor and student engagement? What anchors of
support are you going to develop with students?
 Communication
 Connections
 Reasoning and proof
 Representations
 Problem Solving
If needed, look for activities that will supplement the enVision Math
lesson to create more rigor.
What materials are needed?
What student products will result from this activity?
How will you determine if the learning outcome was
accomplished?