Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI)
Annotated
Web Resources
updated October 29, 2014
- This is an ongoing, evolving site. Please feel free to
comment, suggest changes, provide additional info, etc. Email
feedback to me.
- Thanks,
- jason
The starting point for CGI is the original book prepared by the
developers, Carpenter, Fennema, Franke, Levi and Empson: Children's
Mathematics: Cognitive Guided Instruction.
This outstanding introduction provide the theory and
many examples of classroom implementation.
- There are a vast number of web site with CGI materials.
As I've reviewed various sites I've classified the information I
found into three categories.
Resources for Teachers
Monterey
Bay Area Math Project has listed all the problem types with
sample problems.
Downey Unified School District
Cognitively Guided Instruction: This entire DUSD
website is devoted exclusively to CGI. From the home page,
which in and of itself is very engaging, there are links for
teachers with materials for each grade level. There are also
online copies of in services training and materials for
parents.
Word
problems by University of Wisconsin - Oshkoshhers:
Extensive collection of problems classified as easy to harder.
Native American stories to motivate math lesson
Problems
by South Dakota teachers: 74 page booklet organized by
CGI problem type and grade level. There are a few pages of
problems for each grade level. This is a pdf file, so select the
pages for your grade and then just print those.
These links take you to grade level specific materials.
(Note: for some links of handouts or sample problem, the file
is downloaded and not opened as a web page.)
Kindergarten
1st Grade
2nd Grade
3rd Grade
4th Grade
5th Grade
Return to Top
Resources for Parents
Downey
CGI
for Parents: A two page overview of CGI and what parents can
do to help their child with mathematics. Adopted from the US
Dept of Education materials. The Dept of Ed has
extensive materials, suggested games and other general information.
CGI
Parent
Newsletters: A series of 17 newsletters developed by the
original U of Wisconsin team that developed and did the original
research on CGI.
Parent
Roadmaps to Common Core Standards / Parent Roadmaps- Mathematics:
Materials prepared by the Council of Urban City Schools.
Return to Top
General
Overview/Background Resources
University of
Wisconsin - Oshkoshhers has an extensive site on CGI with
background articles, problem sets and series of pages on using
Native American stories to motivate mathematics.
Summary
chart of CGI problem types.
Top 8 Reasons To
Use Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) to Address the Common
Core does a nice job discussing why CGI should be used to meet
Common Core objectives. The author of this article, Michelle's Math,
has a list of links to various resources useful from her consulting
perspective. Those I found reviewed and found helpful are
individually linked in this list.
Promising
Practices Network Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI):
2007 summary of evaluation research and short discussion of
implementation concerns.
UW
CGI
Math Encourages Ingenuity and Reasoning: News article
summarize history of CGI development at the U of Wisconsin Center
for Educational Research and provides overview of goals and
philosophy.
In 2008 I investigated Singapore
Math and created a website summarizing much of what I learned.
-
Return to Top
Return to
Enrichment Directory
Return to Jason Frand's Homepage
Please feel free to email me with questions and
suggestions.
Jason
Frand, PhD.
Math
Olympiad Coach and
Los Angeles County-wide Math
Olympiad Tournament Chairperson
Linwood Howe
Elementary School
Culver City
Unified School District
Adjunct
Assistant Professor, Retired
Assistant Dean
and Director, Retired
UCLA
Anderson School of Management
prepared August 30, 2014