New year and new math

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New year and new math

by judy5ca

Sep 5, 2011

Hello, friends! How is the new school year treating you? Especially you, cavey--how's admin?

Thanks again for listening to me whine about my difficult class last year. This year I have a normal class and I'm in heaven--it's just wonderful. I walk around with a spring in my step. After a 15 hour day on BTSN, my husband said, "You look tired, but not anything like you did even on a short day with last year's class." I swear, they beat me down last year. This class is darling. Yay, I'm loving teaching again!

My two grade level colleagues and I are developing a math workshop. It's not perfect, but it's working so far. It takes us forever to write the lessons, so we're only one step ahead of the kids. A big part of what we're doing is something we learned at Silicon Valley Math Initiative (we all took a weeklong class there) called Number Talks. We're also trying to use more real world examples and let kids really grapple with numbers. We still use enVision for some proble...See More

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dc Well, it seems like you and I are the only ones around any more! That's OK! OOOH....OOOH....OOOOH..... can we please, pretty please discuss math a lot this year together? I would LOVE that! I have something neat to share with you that I learned at my summer math institute training this summer, but right now I have to get ready for a big math grant ...See More

Sep 18, 2011

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LS LOVE the math talk! I'v always enjoyed "listening in" to your discussions and really want to improve my math workshop. Please share more about your structure. I feel I'm spending too much time on "book work" and not enough on problem solving and math games to enhance our lessons.Please share ideas:)

Sep 23, 2011

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judy5ca We find/create a number talk to precede every lesson. Some we steal from resources like Burns and Van de Walle, others we make up ourselves. Most seem simple; here are a few 5th grade examples I can recall from our most recent unit: How can you solve this problem other than with the traditional algorithm: 27 x 42? How can you figure out how many ti...See More

Sep 24, 2011

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judy5ca Another thought: for the choice part of workshop we do have math games as an option (as you mention). Do you use DonorsChoose? I just wrote a proposal for $397 worth of math games--and it was granted almost immediately. I introduced 3 of the games on Friday. Big hit! Judy

> > > On 9/23/11, LS wrote: >> LOVE the math talk! I'...See More

Oct 16, 2011

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LS On 10/16/11, judy5ca wrote: > Another thought: for the choice part of workshop we do > have math games as an > option (as you mention). Do you use DonorsChoose? I > just wrote a proposal for $397 worth of math games--and > it was granted almost immediately. I introduced 3 of > the games on Friday. Big hit! Judy

Great sugg...See More

Oct 27, 2011

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