http://www.origami-instructions.com/origami-flowers.html
Origami is a great hands-on activity that improves students' spatial visualization skills. There are lots of great sites on the Internet. This is one we used today in class.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Internet Resources
http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/#negative-numbers
This is a link to the Khan Academy page where students can watch a series of mini-lessons to help them better understand negative numbers. This is a new skill which I've only begun to teach this week. At this point, several students are finding it challenging - as I would expect. I'm sure this will be helpful.
Quite often, after I've taught a math lesson and we practice a new skill together in class, students feel that they "get it." When they have to do some additional practice independently for homework, they get stuck and there's no one available to answer their questions or to offer some help.
Khanacademy.org is a wonderful site full of brief video lessons on a wide variety of math topics. Students should explore this site so that when they need it, they can navigate it efficiently. In addition, students can turn to Google in order to find math tutorials. I will demonstrate this for them in class.
As the end of the school year approaches, I'm asking myself what more I need to teach my students before they leave elementary school. Since I can't possibly teach and review everything that every student will need to know going forward - and ensure that they will remember everything - the single most important thing I need to teach them is how to answer their own math questions.
This is a link to the Khan Academy page where students can watch a series of mini-lessons to help them better understand negative numbers. This is a new skill which I've only begun to teach this week. At this point, several students are finding it challenging - as I would expect. I'm sure this will be helpful.
Quite often, after I've taught a math lesson and we practice a new skill together in class, students feel that they "get it." When they have to do some additional practice independently for homework, they get stuck and there's no one available to answer their questions or to offer some help.
Khanacademy.org is a wonderful site full of brief video lessons on a wide variety of math topics. Students should explore this site so that when they need it, they can navigate it efficiently. In addition, students can turn to Google in order to find math tutorials. I will demonstrate this for them in class.
As the end of the school year approaches, I'm asking myself what more I need to teach my students before they leave elementary school. Since I can't possibly teach and review everything that every student will need to know going forward - and ensure that they will remember everything - the single most important thing I need to teach them is how to answer their own math questions.
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