Skip to main content

Home/ CFT Resources for Teachers/ Group items tagged roots

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Chris Harrow

{Musing Mathematically}: Measuring Roots - 0 views

musingmathematically.blogspot.com/...measuring-roots.html

roots radicals ruler irrational

shared by Chris Harrow on 09 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • For many students, no matter their age, math begins with an answer. You then form a question, jeopardy style, to help disguise the number.
  • Most students learn to expect math questions and problems to be short, quick, to the point, solvable and structured around "clean" answers (often related in some way to integer components). They anticipate the answers before they anticipate the questions. I am not sure if they even consider the math.
  • They completely miss the point and the empowering strength of math process and pattern.
  • Chris Harrow on 09 Mar 12
     
    This is a spectacular posting that could be used with ES or MS students (or possibly HS students, too) to explore square roots.
Chris Harrow

How Language Affects Counting « How the Brain Learns: The Blog - 3 views

howthebrainlearns.wordpress.com/...how-language-affects-counting

language brain counting international

shared by Chris Harrow on 17 May 12 - No Cached
  • Differences in classroom instruction and curriculum may be partly to blame. But cultural differences in computational ability may have their roots in the words that different cultures use to represent numbers.
  • There are some tricks that adults can use to increase digit memory span. These tricks can also be taught to young students at the appropriate age.
Chris Harrow

America Needs To Study Fractions: Scientific American Podcast - 2 views

www.scientificamerican.com/...episode.cfm

fractions division pedagogy elementary

shared by Chris Harrow on 25 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • a new study finds that Americans are falling significantly behind in math aptitude compared with China, Finland, the Netherlands and Canada. And the root cause is deficiencies in knowledge of fractions and division.
Robert Ryshke

CriticalThinking.org - Defining Critical Thinking - 3 views

www.criticalthinking.org/...define_critical_thinking.cfm

critical thinking

shared by Robert Ryshke on 26 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Robert Ryshke on 26 Aug 11
     
    Critical thinking...the awakening of the intellect to the study of itself. Critical thinking is a rich concept that has been developing throughout the past 2500 years. The term "critical thinking" has its roots in the mid-late 20th century. We offer here overlapping definitions, together which form a substantive, transdisciplinary conception of critical thinking. This is a very good site to study the meaning behind the terms. What do we mean by critical thinking? How do we know when students are engaged in it? What are the outcomes of teaching critical thinking?
Beth Holland

K-5 iPad Apps for Remembering: Part One of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy | Edutopia - 1 views

www.edutopia.org/...y-blooms-taxomony-diane-darrow

iPad apps blooms_taxonomy professional development media

shared by Beth Holland on 08 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • In attempts to integrate mobile technology, educators are left to the mercy of app developers who or may or may not fully understand how imperative it is that our children become critical and creative thinkers.
  • I will highlight apps useful for developing higher order thinking skills
  • Apps that fit into the "remembering" stage improve the user's ability to define terms, identify facts, and recall and locate information.
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • 300 sight words
  • practice reciting math facts, counting money, telling time, recognizing fractions, decimals, geometric shapes, number patterns and even square roots
    • Beth Holland
      Beth Holland on 08 Sep 11
       
      This sounds like an excellent app. The basic account is free, but the membership is only $19.95 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/membership
  • Beth Holland on 08 Sep 11
     
    Part 1 of a new series by Edutopia
1 - 5 of 5
Showing 20▼ items per page