About the Course

For the educator: You learn to design a math task deliberately — targeting a specific kind of thinking, built around real cultural context or genuine inquiry, and documented well enough that a colleague who's never met you can run it correctly. For the school or district funding this: Tasks produced through this course are culturally relevant and cognitively demanding by design, not by accident, and every task carries a framework and audit rubric with it — so a coach or department can evaluate and improve any task, not just the ones this participant personally wrote. That builds task-design capacity across a team, which is a direct return on the professional-development investment.

About Your Instructor

Jaliyla Fraser is the CEO and Founder of Fraser's Mathematics Solutions, where she leads curriculum design, standards alignment, and culturally relevant math and STEAM programming. Her background spans classroom math and physics teaching, a K-12 district Math Supervisor role, math professor, math textbook editor, mathematics advisor, and authorship of a national math guidance document, experience that spans nearly every seat in the curriculum pipeline, from the classroom where materials get used to the review process that decides what gets published.

Earn College Credits

Upon successful completion of this course, participants have the option to earn 1 college credit with Teachers College of San Joaquin.

What You'll Learn

8 Chapters · 33 Lessons

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      Course Introduction

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      Optional College Credits

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      Introduction

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      Entry Check: Self-Assessment

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      Introduction

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      Curriculum-ready vs. Classroom-Ready

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      Key Components of Creating Math Tasks Checklist

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      Task Analysis

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      Anatomy of a Strong Task

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      Task Blueprint Lab

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      Introduction

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      Aspect of Rigor Triangle

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      Building a Low Floor and a High Ceiling

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      Spot the Design Failure

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      Rigor Onramps Challenge

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      Going Beyond Surface-Level Representation

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      Reflection: Authentic vs. Performative Representation

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      Common Task Design Failures

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      Meaningful Inquiry Exercise

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      Inquiry Planning Exercise

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      Introduction

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      What is Coherence?

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      Intellectual Prep Exercise

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      Spot the Misalignment Challenge

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      Building the Audit Rubric

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      Applying the Audit Rubric

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      Introduction

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      The Gold Standard for Documentation

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      Using Templates for Task Design

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      Task Template Lab

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      Final Capstone Submission: Task Design and Documentation

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      Course Reflection and Fedback

Ready to Design Math Tasks That Actually Reach Your Students?

Stop using traditional math assignments. Start building culturally relevant, rigorous tasks that help students achieve mathematical success.

$189.00

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