Why Kids Should Be Allowed to Act Out (Scenes) In Class. Physically acting out a written text—as an actor would walk himself through the gestures and emotions of a soliloquy during rehearsal—is an effective way to commit that text to memory.
For adults, this process of enactment imbues abstract words with concrete meaning, fixing them more firmly in our minds. For children, acting out words on the page can also yield benefits. Especially for beginning readers, physically moving objects or one’s own body can provide a crucial bridge between real-life people, things, and actions, and the printed words meant to represent them. Fluent readers take this correspondence for granted, but many children find it difficult to grasp. In everyday life, after all, the words “dog” or “cup” are usually encountered when there’s an actual dog or cup around. 20 Things To Know About Pi Day. Happy Pi Day, everyone!
I don’t know about you, but I always enjoy a good date that has significance. Dates like 11-11-11, 10-01-10 and 7-9-79 are fun, but March 14th always tops my list! Maybe I’m a geek. App of the week: Door 24-Math. Name: Door 24-Math What is it?
Aligned to the Common Core, Door 24 provides targeted practice in the use of basic facts, number sense and algebraic thinking. Students can work through 6 different levels and multiple problem sets as they help fix Victor the robot’s circuits and solve the mystery behind Door 24. Door 24 is part of i-Ready—an award-winning, blended learning online program published by Curriculum Associates. When I Let Them Own the Problem. From our textbook: Stuff like this makes my heart sink.
(I actually wrote that it makes me fart — but that's very unladylike. And I'm trying to write better.) Dan Meyer's Three-Act Math Tasks. 101questions. Mingle & Count: A Game of Number Sense < Teaching Channel. PBS Launches New Video Series to Make Math 'Cool' - Teaching Now. Federal Research Suggests New Approach to Teaching Fractions. Boosting Creative Thinking in Math Class. Recreational and Educational Value of Math Puzzles. The figure above shows a puzzle called OkiDoku.
Prof. Dani Novak & Prof. David Rosenthal, Ithaca College Many people enjoy working on grid puzzles as small, quick challenges of their mathematical and logical skills. A Challenge You Can Tackle. Mathematical discourse has been articulated as one of the Common Core Mathematical Practices: construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
Sounds stuffy and maybe even intimidating, right? Not necessarily. My teaching is heavily influenced by John Seely Brown and Daniel Pink, who encourage teachers to incorporate more creativity and “playful thinking” into the classroom. I want students to feel liberated to try on ideas, think with erasers, and generally play with ideas until they “get it.” UCR workshop helps teachers learn to motivate students. Just ASK Publications and Professional Development - Making the Common Core Come Alive! "We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.
" - John Dewey What a year it has been for educators, students, and parents. The intellectual horsepower required with the implementation of the Common Core State Standards has been significant and life changing. We have learned there is great complexity to teaching and learning, and that it is only through reflection that we can understand how much we have learned, how effective we are, and how to make improvements to our work. There are many far reaching benefits of reflection, yet it tends to be an area that often neglected. The true act of learning requires our students to reflect often and to make it a habit to think about what they have learned and how those ideas link to their previous experiences and what they already know.
Establishing an Environment for Reflection To reflect, and to reflect well, takes practice. The reflections shared with students should be planned carefully. Interactive Whiteboard Teacher Tools. Over thirty lessons.
Infinite possibilities. Ready for use in elementary classrooms with any type of interactive whiteboard, these high-quality virtual manipulative tools help teachers connect students with great ways to make sense of math. Use these tools to create an environment for students to explain, discuss, and defend their mathematical thinking. Kindergarten Number Sense and Equivalence. FUNdamentals Learning Program brought to you by Hot Wheels® Museums Open Doors to Informal Math Learning. Published Online: June 4, 2013 Published in Print: June 5, 2013, as Museums Open Doors to New Ways of Learning Math Includes correction(s): June 19, 2013 Focus On: Informal Learning Math Fever: From left, Luna Rodriguez, Sabrina Vulpio, and Justin Burgher, 7th graders at PS 232, dance on the light-activated Math Square at the Museum of Mathematics in New York.
We Use Math Blog. I Love Maths (16-19) Knot just a piece of string Have you ever struggled to untie a particularly tight knot, battled with the jumbled mess of cables hidden behind your PC, or wondered why your shoelaces won't stay tied? If so, you're in good company, as mathematicians have wrestled with knots for over 200 years. What’s the biggest number? To our ancestors, a million was as big as numbers needed to get. 10 Good Video Sources for Math Students and Teachers. Earlier this week I shared ten video sources for history students and ten video sources for science students.
To wrap-up the week I have a list of ten video sources for math students. Like the other lists, I've intentionally left out Khan Academy because everyone knows about that option. WowMath.org is developed by high school mathematics teacher Bradley Robb. His YouTube channel has more than six hundred videos covering topics in Algebra and Calculus. You can access the videos on a mobile version of WowMath too. Numberphile is a neat YouTube channel about fun number facts. Bright Storm is an online tutoring service. Ten Marks is another online tutoring service that offers mathematics tutorial videos on their site as well as on their YouTube channel. Daily Assessment Of Students With Tiered Exit Cards. Implementing Common Core Standards in Mathematics. In the beginning stages of Common Core implementation for Mathematics, it is only natural for teachers to examine the shifts in content. We are driven to answer the question, “Exactly what skills do I have to teach?”
But if we are truly going to meet the requirements of the Common Core in Mathematics, there is a section of the CCSS that absolutely cannot be overlooked: The Standards of Mathematical Practice. These expectations focus not on the skills students must know, but rather on the processes and methods they use to approach mathematical problems. Math Teachers Strive to Bring Core to At-Risk Students. UserID: Teaching the Common Standards in Math: Getting Rid of the GPS. Sticks and Stones. The Sticks and Stones game is based on the Apache game "Throw Sticks. " To play the game, students throw three sticks, each decorated on one side. Students move their pieces around the game board based on the results of the throw, as described below. Real World Math - Home. Mathematics. Annenberg Learner . The Annenberg Learner, from the Annenberg Foundation, is a collection of classroom resources sortable by discipline and by grade.
Teaching Students About Quadrilaterals. How Math is Getting Its Groove Back. Teaching Strategies. Learning® : Using Landmark Numbers to Add on the Open Number Line. December 19th, 2012. Graphing Stories - The Math in Short Videos. Two steps for incorporate PBL learning in math class. Triangle Rap: A high school teacher puts math to music. Learning® : Teacher Tool of the Month: Multiplication: Open Arrays. 1. The teacher begins by listing the math string below one at a time. Activities. A Meter of Candy. Preparation Prepare a sandwich bag of 100 candies for each group. Get The Math. Illustrative Mathematics. Here you will find information about winners of the Task Writing contests held in late 2011 and early 2012.
The task writing contests evolved into Web Jams, which are where a small group of interested educators meet online for 2 one-hour sessions held a week apart focused on a standard (or a group of related standards) and writing tasks for that standard. If you are a registered user of Illustrative Mathematics (registration is free!) And interested in participating in a Web Jam, please sign up here to be contacted when one comes up. Please note that there is limited space in each Web Jam. A Framework For Using Digital Media In Math Instruction.
February 18th, 2009 by Dan Meyer When we teach math we are helping our students establish a framework for interpreting the world. One of the worst ways I know to help them establish that framework is to print an illustration of a real-world scene in a textbook, write in only the relevant measurements, and tell the students in the text of the problem which formula or strategy to apply. This leaves a student helpless and unprepared (in the mathematical, analytical sense) should she ever encounter the world that exists outside the pages of her textbook. Dan Meyer's Three-Act Math Tasks. Popcorn Picker. Got Engineers, America? Have Your Kids Study Lego Bricks in School! YouTube. N Ways to Apply Algebra to the New York Times. Educators Craft Own Math E-Books for Common Core. Studies Find Payoff in 'Personalizing' Algebra.
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