This week is our last mathematics class and we refreshed our memories on the topic of Blended Learning. http://www.basictutorialonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Blended-learning.webm.jpg What is blended learning? Blended learning is a program that combines both online digital media with traditional classroom methods. It requires the physical presence of both teacher and student, with some element of student control over time, place, path,...
This week we were again instructed to watch online modules to help create meaningful math for students. I am finding these modules are helping me develop an understanding of the mathematics process to help pass on to my students. This week the focus was on, Ideas vs. Memorization, Drawing and Representing, and Making Sense and Intuition This week I decided to...
"Rich tasks have a range of characteristics that together offer opportunities to meet the different needs of learners. On its own a task is not rich, it is how the task is used in the classroom that may make it rich." - Source This week we explored rich tasks in mathematics. You might be asking yourself, what is a rich task and how the...
During our math modules this week, we explored the lesson that you can't have success without making mistakes along the way. When you make mistakes in math your brain grows. This made me think of having challenges in my own math class. If I can embrace the mistakes and struggle, it will help change my mindset so I believe I will figure it out. If you're interested in the...
Every week for our online component of our mathematics class, we are required to watch a module on a designated topic and post our ideas and thoughts afterwards about it. This weeks topic was about Math Mindset and the ideas we create when we have negative feelings towards a subject, in this case Mathematics. Retrieved from: http://bit.ly/2wqtxfp I feel as if the math gods...
This week in mathematics, we started the class playing a card game. Our teacher had a student cut a deck of cards in half, and then again two more times so there were four equal piles. In each pile she had the student take three cards from the top and place them at the bottom of the deck. Next, she had the student...
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