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small group table. The 30 minute period went undisturbed and uninterrupted from any outsiders. During the activity, the two students were participating in was a math game. The goal of the math game was to count the tokens by their color and write the number in the corresponding box. I chose this activity to observe the students’ social/emotional development to see if they were able to follow directions

Shae Lutes Methods home-work Content-Analysis 11/6/16 They say to never judge a book by its cover, in this paper I am judging a birthday card by its cover. Content analysis is a more objective way to break down what you see or hear (content) into different categories that you can describe and analyze (Babbie, 2013). In this paper, I am using content analysis to compare birthday cards directed at men, and birthday cards directed at women. I am doing this to see how these cards are alike; how they

count in any base system at all. Almost everyone uses base system ten. Hypothetically speaking, if you were to say ‘I want to count in base system three!’ You tell you friend you are going to count to seven so they know when to start the race. The number seven in base system three is twenty-one. So you would count like this: ‘1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 20, 21!’ When you are about to say three, the tens digit goes up one. The only possible units digits when counting in base three are 0, 1, and 2. Here is how

Numeracy in primary schools Numeracy is very important in primary schools today, with mental calculations being a central part of the mathematics curriculum. These mental methods of calculation should be encouraged from an early age, mathematics is used in our everyday lives without many of us realising; checking our change at the shops and leaving the house in order to arrive at school on time. It is advised that Numeracy lessons start with a 5-10 minute starter of oral or mental calculation

In the dictionary, conformity is defined as “compliance with standards, rules, or laws.”. The reason I believe that conformity is a common element in both Emerson’s Self-Reliance and Gladwell’s Outliers is because in Self-Reliance, Emerson believed that to be self-reliant, you must avoid conformity. Gladwell agrees with this in chapter 8 of Outliers, where he states that we tend to conform to rules based off of where we are from and

My entire baseball career I had dreamed of playing for my high school, but now that dream was in jeopardy. I had been playing baseball since I was eligible back in 1st grade. I was never a spectacular talent, I didn't hit home runs, I wasn't an ace pitcher, and I wasn't particularly fit. I was just average, and I knew that. So when it came to trying out for the high school baseball team, I almost decided not to. I wasn't worthy of being on that team. I had expressed this opinion to my friends and

Introduction Mathematics is an important part of everyday life and as teachers in the early years, we are responsible for teaching children the fundamentals of mathematics and helping develop children’s passion for learning mathematical concepts. Knaus (2013) states that “An effective teacher of mathematics will ask questions to provoke children’s thinking and introduce the language of mathematics to help children see the connections between the world and mathematical concepts (pg.3). As I progress

mindless recounting of multiplication and division and the ability to just know the answer, was needed for success. I wanted to know why the number four was four. What it really meant. What does it mean that there are two less from six? Why were Eight things divided by two equal the same as the square of two? I was interested in the hows and the whys of numbers, not just its identity. For this reason, I was not deemed successful and was not seen as a student with prospects. Despite my seeming lack

twenty (20). My student friendly objective will be: I can identify and count numbers one to twenty. This will be written on the objective board and will assessable for my student while I am teaching this content area. The specific standard for first grade is 1.NBT.A.1, count to one hundred and twenty starting at any number less than one hundred and twenty. In this range, read, and write numerals and represent a number of objects with a written numeral. For second grade the specific standard that

This is a number & operation lesson for Kindergarten- 2nd grade. This lesson might be used in conjunction with lessons involving fact families. The goal of the lesson is to help the students gain an understanding of fact families. The students will start with one number, 7, and find the different addition and subtraction fact families for each number. After the students have used the counters/cubes/buttons and the red strip and found the different facts of the first number, the students will count