Tape diagrams can help students (and teachers!) make sense of problems while also illuminating the meaning of operations. In this workshop, we will explore the ways in which tape diagrams can be incorporated into mathematics instruction to support student understanding of the relationships between values in a problem.
We will represent complex problems ourselves using tape diagrams and consider the impact of shared representations on the building of robust mathematical communities. This workshop is geared toward teachers of grades 1-5, but all teachers are welcome.