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Tracy Watanabe

Free Technology for Teachers: Thinking Blocks - Model Your Math Problems - 1 views

  • Thinking Blocks provides interactive templates in which students use brightly colored blocks to model and solve problems. As students work through the problems they are provided with feedback as to whether or not they are using the correct sequence to solve each problem. There are templates and problems for addition, multiplication, fractions, and ratios. You can also develop your own problems using the modeling tool.
Tracy Watanabe

Experts & NewBIEs | Bloggers on Project Based Learning: How and why should math be taug... - 0 views

  • As a math teacher, what made you turn to Project Based Learning in your own teaching?
  • Why do many math teachers initially resist integrating Project Based Learning into their classes?
  • So we assume having students practicing problems twenty-five times is the only way to learn math. This is a difficult mindset to break. Practice makes perfect is the old adage, but what many math teachers don’t realize is that creating a Project Based Learning environment in a math class doesn’t require students to be “perfect.” Having students solve complex, real-life problems is actually asking students to complete open-ended tasks. These problems may not have one right answer, unlike the practice problems in a textbook. This can be a scary leap for math teachers to take and many students may be hesitant to take this leap as well.
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  • How can integrating Project Based Learning into math class create a more authentic framework in which students can learn?
  • For instance, the solution for the BP Oil spill in the Gulf came from mathematical concepts. The heart of calculus is about speed and change. How do you calculate the rate of the oil leaking into the ocean? Unfortunately, we don’t present math this way to our students. Maybe, if we did, we would see more students engaged in math and choosing careers that are focused on solving real world problems with which we, as a global society, are faced.
  • How does utilizing Project Based Learning create an improved context for preparing students to better meet the Common Core standards for Math?
  • The Common Core focuses on how math concepts interrelate and how they are applied.
  • These standards are talking about applying math. Thus, math teachers must start to look into their subject area as more of an in-depth inquiry process, rather better than simply reducing it down to just the formula and practice questions.
  • How can math be integrated with other subjects in projects?
  • What do you believe was the most important “take-away” from your webinar?
Tina Jada

Math Forum - 1 views

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    This online community includes teachers, students, researchers, parents and educators who have an interest in math and math education. The site includes Ask Dr. Math, Problems of the Week, discussion groups and much more.
fivetriangles

Five Triangles mathematics - 2 views

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    Challenging mathematics problems for school years 6-8
Sarah Harrison

nrich (Enriching Mathematics) - 0 views

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    Great critical thinking problems, with real life scenarios!
Tracy Watanabe

iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » Algebra Lab - 0 views

  •  The site includes really well done lessons, activities, practice pages (online), study aids, glossary, and word problems.  Algebra Lab is like a free, living textbook.
  • Tips: If you have a one-to-one setting, students can practice directly on the website for immediate feedback.  Very helpful!
Tracy Watanabe

Using Student Blogs to Achieve Standards for Mathematical Practice - 0 views

  • In this article, I make a case for student blogs as a tool that can support and extend students’ mathematics proficiency through the Standards for Mathematical Practice.
  • Teachers who use math journals can easily convert that process to a digital one through blogging.
  • 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
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  • The act of blogging allows for: students to make their thinking visible students and teachers to give one another feedback students and teachers to keep a record of student progress with mathematics What follows is a definition of the eight Standards for Mathematical Practice and a description of how blogging can enhance and strengthen students’ use of these practices:   Teachers who use math journals can easily convert that process to a digital one through blogging.
  • 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively
  • 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
  • 4. Model with mathematics.
  • 5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
  • 6. Attend to precision.
  • 7. Look for and make use of structure.
  • 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Tracy Watanabe

Class Highlights: Beyond PEMDAS- Getting them to "Get" Order of Operations - 0 views

  • One of the difficulties in teaching order of  operations to students is that one of the most often used shortcuts actually causes student confusion.  Most students know that they should use PEMDAS when deciding what math operation to do first.  The problem with PEMDAS is that often students think that multiplication has to come before division and addition before subtraction. Instead, teach students to think of the operations as "levels." Just like on an elevator, you have to do one level before you can get to the next.  Be sure to start at the bottom - just like the first floor of a building. 
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