Does anyone have any resources for the Math 1, Math 2, and math 3 (especially Math 2)? We are implementing these changes per DPI this year and wondered who out there was already using them.
On 8/16/13, kelly carter wrote: > Does anyone have any resources for the Math 1, Math 2, and > math 3 (especially Math 2)? We are implementing these > changes per DPI this year and wondered who out there was > already using them.
Does anyone teach middle school with Math In Focus? I just want to find out what sorts of activities others are using with this series. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
I need to see how anybody has Go Math in a lesson plan format. I like the program, but I am burning a lot of time trying to write daily plans for it. I have the Common Core edition.
Where can I find sample plans for that? If anybody has them saved, I'd be happy to buy them. I am looking for 3rd grade.
I can tell you how we set up our lesson for our 6th grade co-taught class. We start with a warm-up: 3-5 problems that review skills taught in the last few lessons, or ones we have noticed need to be practiced. This is designed to be an independent activity - each student does as much as they can. Think Central has electronic transparencies for this available. These start out easy enough for all the students to answer and end with a challenge problem for the higher students. We teach the focus of the lesson, using the Smart Board lesson from Think Central or examples on the white board. When we are doing really well on time we break into small groups to practice the skill and reteach/enrich. We are finally, after 3 weeks finished, accepting the fact that we will need 2 solid days (45-50 minutes each day) for a lesson in order for the majority of the students to understand it and have enough time to practice it. The second day we are going to begin with a 5 question review "quiz" that likely won't be graded that will assess how much students understood from the first day of the lesson. Once we see who is where we will arrange small groups to practice, reteach, or enrich. Sometimes we give homework and sometimes we don't, it depends on how far we have gotten. We are also mixing in multiplication time tests twice a week to practice facts, as well as a program called Math 4 Today. There are materials for Go math available on Teacher Pay Teacher as well.
This isn't exactly a lesson plan, and the 6th grade level is definitely covering pre- algebra concepts a great deal of the time, so that might be different than your lessons. I hope this helps though! All of our teachers are finding this program very challenging, especially 4th and up.
Jenn
On 8/25/13, Bill wrote: > I need to see how anybody has Go Math in a lesson plan > format. I like the program, but I am burning a lot of time > trying to write daily plans for it. I have the Common Core > edition. > > Where can I find sample plans for that? If anybody has them > saved, I'd be happy to buy them. I am looking for 3rd grade. > > Thank you, > > Bill
My study was more focused on electrical engineering. So, I worked a lot with Ohm's Law, voltage dividers, LED's, breadboards, and resistors.
I was wondering if anyone else had used engineering ideas ideas in the classroom, it does not have to be electrical engineering. If you have used it in the classroom, how effective was it? Was there postive results in student behavior? What was the demographics and grade level? Based on your experience, how would you suggest someone go about incorporating engineering concepts into the classroom?
I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for some new or fun technology to help teach a middle school (or high school) math class? With all of the technology we have around us, is there anything you find particularly useful or fun for your students? Thanks!
I have seen teacher use the new TI-Nspire calculator in their classroom several ways. I was wondering of any if you have used or are currently using the calculators, how you use them and your feedback about the product?
A quarter had 5 ...See MoreCan somebody please explain touch points/math to me? I just started my internship in second grade, the kids were counting coins. I walked up to them and asked what they were doing, they said, "this is how we count money." I was like, "Well... how do you know where to put the dots?" They said, "Right there. They're there."
A quarter had 5 points = 5x5 = 25 A dime = 5x 2 =10 A nickel = 5 x1 = 5 Penny = none
I get that it's counting by 5's, but how do they KNOW where to put the dots? Is it an assigned, logical fact or is it random? It just seems like "touch points" are arbitrarily assigned and the kids just memorized them?
StaceyOn 9/13/13, Robert L wrote: > Can somebody please explain touch points/math to me? I just > started my internship in second grade, the kids were > counting coins. I walked up to them and asked what they > were doing, they said, "this is how we count money." I was > like, "Well... how do you know where to put the dots?" They > said...See MoreOn 9/13/13, Robert L wrote: > Can somebody please explain touch points/math to me? I just > started my internship in second grade, the kids were > counting coins. I walked up to them and asked what they > were doing, they said, "this is how we count money." I was > like, "Well... how do you know where to put the dots?" They > said, "Right there. They're there." > > A quarter had 5 points = 5x5 = 25 A dime = 5x 2 =10 A > nickel = 5 x1 = 5 Penny = none > > I get that it's counting by 5's, but how do they KNOW where > to put the dots? Is it an assigned, logical fact or is it > random? It just seems like "touch points" are arbitrarily > assigned and the kids just memorized them? > > Please forgive my ignorance. > > Thanks. 9/13/2013 Have you heard of "hairy money"? It's kinda same as that....draw coin w amount in it and draw one hair straight up nickel...2for dime..5for. Quarter...and 10 for half dollar. Penny count at the end by ones.Touch each hair and count by 5'smuch easier than adding up coins. Hope it helped
Please please please do not use this method. It may get them through your year but it is utterly destructive to their math futures. Too many of them end up never making the conceptual jump from counting to adding. Then they end up in my class in 7th grade and cannot add 5 and 3 without using their fingers. Math facts, addition, subtraction and multiplication are like the sight word equivalents for math. They need to know them period, not count them or, as is used on multiplication skip count them. There is no greater gift you can give your students than to insist they learn the appropriate facts at your grade level to a level of fluency. Using touch math is like knee-capping them
On 8/16/13, kelly carter wrote: > Does anyone have any resources for the Math 1, Math 2, and > math 3 (especially Math 2)? We are implementing these > changes per DPI this yea...See More