Elementary arithmetic

The activity I have planned relates to a book called Tyrannosaurus Math. The book involves the dinosaurs counting various aspects of their surroundings. For instance the mother counts her baby’s toes and fingers, as well as how many children she has. Prior to reading the book, I will have children brainstorm a list of times throughout their day in which they utilizes counting. What I am trying to do, is get the children to realize that through their day, they are always using math. When they count

taught me about the complexity of elementary mathematics and not to underestimate it. Secondly, it taught me about the consequences becoming overly dependent on mathematical aids (leading to doing and not understanding). Thirdly, it taught me the reasons behind why we do certain mathematical procedures. Lastly it gave me tips for future teaching and parenting. One of the main themes in this book is challenging the notion of how simple it is to teach elementary kids. In fact it is profound. Often

The Standards for Mathematical Practice are essential tools that will ensure a student has everything they need to improve in their knowledge and understanding in mathematics. Thus, it is highly important that all level mathematical educators try to implement these standards into their classrooms. Ultimately, there are two sections called, “processes and proficiencies” in which the standards are derived from. The practices are depended on these two standards in the mathematics education. For the

The fraction lesson that we worked on in class has given me a deeper understanding of fractions that I did not have before. Fractions have never been a topic of math that I have took a liking to. They have intimidated me for as long as I can remember. I did not imagine in my wildest dreams that there was going to come a day that I could understand fractions. Being enrolled in the math for educators course has contributed significally to this newfound understanding. This class has taught me a lot

Subgroups The group characteristic I analyzed for this unit was gender. The classroom I chose to do the teacher work sample in was compromised of fourteen males and eight females at the time. The analysis was completed using the post-assessment of thirteen male and eight female students due to a male student being absent for both pre- and post-assessments. Learning goal 1c, evaluating functions at integers or monomials, mastery level is where the goal where the two groups portrayed outstanding

Therefore I stopped and wait on the professor. After the teacher did the first problem, but she did not do or put all the steps on the board, she skipped some of it. She said “you guys should have known how to do this stuff already. This is not elementary or grade school, so I am not going to do or write every little step. Without paying close attention and understand every single steps and everything she was saying. The first thing I did was, I immediately started the next one. I started good. I

“Um… where are we going?” asked Phillip. “I told you, a friend’s place,” said Cassidy. “Yeah, it’s just that… does your friend live in the woods or something?” Phillip responded. “Sort of,” answered Cassidy. “He likes his seclusion. Two hundred more yards and they had reached their destination or what appeared to be their destination which ended up being nothing more than an old rundown cottage. The place looked penury and abandoned for some time, but undoubtedly occupied by at least mice and

Activity 1: Comparing Fractions (October 12, 2016) The learning objective of the lesson Comparing Fractions was to demonstrate to students that fractions are everywhere we go and the importance of being able to identify fractions with greater or less value when comparing fractions. Engage During this activity students were very engaged, they created their own figures using the pattern blocks. Below there are some of the examples of the figures that students come up with (see fig.1&2). After

The opposite od addition is subtraction. The addition operation sign is (+). Approximation: Approximation is guessing the rough of a number instead of exactly knowing it. Approximation is widely used by many individuals on a daily basis. Arithmetic: Arithmetic is the branch of mathematics that deals with combining numbers by division, multiplication, subtraction, and addition operations. Borrowing: Borrowing in subtraction, is to take one from a digit in the minuend to add as ten to the digit with

Multiplicative thinking, fractions and decimals are important aspects of mathematics required for a deep conceptual understanding. The following portfolio will discuss the key ideas of each and the strategies to enable positive teaching. It will highlight certain difficulties and misconceptions that children face and discuss resources and activities to help alleviate these. It will also acknowledge the connections between the areas of mathematics and discuss the need for succinct teaching instead