Common Math Errors
Division Strategies and Algorithms: Great Guided Math Lessons
Can you show your thinking about 250/50 in more than one way? What about your students? Can they discuss this problem with numbers, words and pictures? Division with Base Ten Blocks Division with Virtual Manipulatives More Division with Virtual Manipulatives (I would use real base ten blocks and then show the process with virtual manipulatives). Area [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )48÷2(9+3) = ? Great Critical Thinking and Debate Question!
NCTM tweeted that 98% of the people got it wrong! What do you think? Do the math, explain your thinking and then check your answer! Happy Mathing, Dr. Nicki
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Get the Math: Videos about Using Algebra in Real Life
This is a great site by PBS for grades 3 and up. Get the Math is a multimedia project about algebra in the real world. The site shows interviews and demos of how professionals working in fashion, videogame design, and music production use algebraic thinking. Then, they have opportunities for older students to “take on interactive challenges [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Common Core Math Progressions: Detailed Guided Math and Center Activities
The Common Core folks have put up Math Progressions, which describe each domain in detail. They only have progressions up for Operations and Algebraic Thinking and Place Value right now. There are pictures, diagrams and lots of good information. This is a must read for everybody! Operations and Algebraic Thinking Progressions Place Value Progressions Happy [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Great RTI Math Resource: Strategies for Guided Math Groups
RTI is a great structure for planning differentiated interventions! I do a great deal of workshops on it around the country. I find that people struggle with really knowing what research based math interventions look like. As a nation we are really good at knowing and talking about research based literacy interventions! We have to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )This Ruler Practice Rules! Great Center Activity
This is a great site for students to practice reading a ruler. See this great link! Did you know that: The standard English ruler, or Imperial ruler, is divided into inches. Each inch is divided in half. Each of those halves is divided in half to give you quarters. Each of those quarters is divided [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Engaging Test Prep Activities: Great for Guided Math
Christine King is doing some great work around developing thinking and reasoning and test prep! She has an excellent blog (www.testsavvymath.blogspot.com) and some cool stuff up on her website at www.ckingeducation.com under Math Resources. I would like to highlight a few of Christine’s Test Savvy Strategies! The first one is Find and Fix My Error. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Bar Diagramming to Solve Word Problems: Great Strategy to Teach in Guided Math Groups
Randy Charles wrote a must read monograph on word problems. In this article he talks about the two main ways that teachers teach words problems: 1) key word approach 2) Polya’s problem solving phases. He reiterates that research says don’t use the keyword approach! He also makes a good point about Polya’s phases as being [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Solving Word Problems Part 1: Work it out In Guided Math Groups
Word Problems are one of the biggest challenges for students in math. In 1977, Australian educator Anne Newman discussed five steps that students need to work through in order to solve a word problem successfully– (1) reading the problem / READING (2) comprehending what was read /COMPREHENSION (3) transforming the words into a mathematical strategy/TRANSFORMATION [...]
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