The Basic Concepts Of Algebra

In the working class the type of work is following procedure. Teachers rarely explain why the work is being done such as if it is connected to other assignments or what the purpose of the activity is. Teachers often do not take advantage to the provided textbooks, thus not getting the best education as possible if resources are not being used. The attitude toward teaching the students are to show them how to solve problem, but with no explanation of why the material is important, and why solving problem works in that order. The teacher of this class was helping a student with a math two-digit division problem and was showing an alternate method without explaining that it is a different way, “At this point a girl said that she had a faster way to do

A majority of current and incoming fourth grade students struggle with solving word problems accurately. Students have difficulty with word problems mostly based on lack of reliable strategies and poor language interpretation. While fact fluency may be present, the ability to interpret vocabulary to guide computation leaves many students unable to construct

Yanni is a 9th grade student who has difficulty keeping up with classmates of the same age in a developmentally appropriate learning environment. Yanni has extreme difficulty with comprehending what he reads. Since he doesn 't monitor his comprehension when he reads, he doesn 't recognize when he is "getting it" and when he is not. He works at a much slower pace than other students and requires extra time to complete certain tasks; he never forgets to do his homework and has no difficulty with planning. Yanni has a hard time remembering information - memorizing is very difficult for him. This leads to poor recall of facts, as well. Yanni prefers math to ELA. However, he continues to need encouragement in math. He often gets confused in math and cannot communicate his thinking. His basic math facts are not yet in

Students will also verbally share with the class the different comparison problems they created which will allow students to use the vocabulary terms. The last learning experience, 4, will allow students to continue to build from experience 3 in practicing the vocabulary terms and math symbols. Students will say true math statements as well as create their own. There are several ways students will implement their vocabulary terms in meaningful ways.]

The lesson should first be introduced to the class through the vocabulary. This gives the students the back ground on the words used to describe what the lesson is about, and allows them to use the words in context with what they are doing.

Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. In each section 5.2.1-5.2.3 the students are required to make sense as a group and persevere in solving the problems. Example of the practice is seen in 5.2.1 5-42, 5.2.2 5-59, and 5.2.3 5-74. Each problem in this text is recommended that the students work in groups and there are no formulas, or rules given until the students have reasoned out the problem and solved as a group. By having the student reason and understand, then persevere, the student gains an understanding of the concept in sequences rather that the rule. Given that many of the lesson plans are built around the students making sense of conceptual problems this practice seems to be the focus of the sections. Used beyond moderately, it is the stepping stone to the

Mrs. Graves is a middle school educator who has been teaching in a seventh and eighth grade special education resource program for two years; she provides support in subjects such as English and Mathematics. Additionally, Mrs. Graves is ahead of a “Study Skills” period where she has a window of opportunity to teach students how to better prepare themselves with school work such as: organizing notes, studying for tests, and gaining the main ideas of textbook chapters. However, it seems that each year Mrs. Graves teaches this class period she finds herself unhappy with the outcome of how it is managed. Mrs. Graves says that she wants this time to be used to help her students learn basic study skills that can help them in all their classes. Instead, the class

One of the greatest contributions of the Islamic world was algebra. Algebra's father was Abū ‘Abdallāh Muḥammad ibn Mūsā Al-Khwārizm and was the first mathematician that introduced the concept of the decimal point, which was very important, since it allowed the representation of not only whole numbers. Another Arab, Ibn Moosaa studied what we know as trigonometry and the basic functions sine, cosine, and tangent. Arabs also left valuable books that had nutrition, healthy life, anatomy and diet as topics. Ibn Sina's wrote The Canon of Medicine, which was translated into Latin in the twelfth century. Another great contribution has to do with the paper, but in this case, it is not the invention, because we know Chinese were the

In my tutoring job, I noticed some of my students were having difficulty remembering topics I explained. For example, they would come in not understanding rationalization. I would explain to them that rationalization is when you get rid of the radicals on the denominator and show them how to do it. At the moment they would understand it but the next day they would come in asking it again. I would ask them why do they forgot it and where does it start to confuse them. With their feedback, I tried different methods to see which works. I tried asking them to do practice, or to write down the steps. What I found was they tend to remember the concept when there is a story behind it or why they are doing it. It doesn’t work for everyone of course

In my classroom the students are currently working on addition and subtraction word problems, but my student said “adding and taking away stuff with words”. For the end of the term my teacher is planning on finishing up word problems by the end of October and starting the children on place value, then lead them into adding double digit numbers. My teacher has concerns that if my student doesn’t understand place value he will struggle with double digit addition. However, both my student and cooperating teacher see that the more they practice math the better they understand the concept. Furthermore, with that being said my teacher has some apprehensions because this year in their school they implemented a new policy of the students not having homework, but she feels when they dive further into their math that my case study student will need more practice at school and at home. After interviewing my case study student and my cooperating teacher my plan for the future is to help my student increase his knowledge in story problems, but also make sure he gets the practice he needs in order to succeed in place value and two digit

He wrote equals signs on the board. Students were asked to define the meaning of the equal signs. He continues the discussion until students arrive at the correct meaning. Knowing what students know before the lesson helps the instructor plan a practical lesson and sort out any misconceptions before teaching the lesson.

Its Tuesday and I'm in my last class of the day, Algebra. I usually can't wait for math, but today I can barely look at the numbers without my head hurting. I haven't been able to concentrate on anything all day. But, what does catch my attention is the big red clock. 10 Minutes left until school's out. I sit my finished math to the side. And, I retrieve my keys and my phone. I unlock my phone and see that I have an unopened message from Brendan.

This week in P.E. we learned about nothing because its P.E. and all we really do is exercise and play games on certain days and just run two laps on fridays. The most important thing I learned in P.E. is to not be in last place when u running laps and try your best to come in first or the top three because I think coach writes things about how we perform in the exercise and then it effects are grades if we don't run hard or try to cheat , for an example during the push-ups or sit-ups during the exercise, also not changing can effect your grade.

Yes, he can still bring his grade up in Algebra, I'm not sure about other classes. My guess is that he can still bring those grades up as well. However, I am concerned with his motivation. Jailing is very bright but, most days, he refuses to put his iPad away and work. I will have him check with other teachers today to see what he needs to do to bring his grades up. He should have a list of things to do by the end of today. Let me know if you have any questions or need any other teacher's contact information.

Has it ever been hard to try to understand what your teacher is teaching? Everyday you are taught something and it is very important how you comprehend it, which is dependent on the teacher. Teaching has been around for as long as a person can think of but teaching has changed over the many years. A recent type of teaching method is called Problem-Based learning. It helps teach students on understanding problems more clearer. There are several other ways that teachers can be more effective in their teaching, more specifically in what learning style they teach, organization, and amount of homework they give.