Wei Yao Numeracy – Geoboards Observation Wei Yao takes the recording sheet and places it on the floor. He grabs the geoboard from the basket. He stretches the rubber band and attaches it to the geoboard. He looks at his friend. He takes few more rubber bands and forms a shape. He said, “Teacher Nithya, look!” Teacher Nithya said, “Wow! Good job Wei Yao! You formed a shape” He smiles. He removes all the rubber bands and forms another shape. He tries to copy the geoboard shapes to the activity sheet. He draws lines. Interpretation Wei Yao is able to stretch the rubber bands with two hand and attach to the geoboards. He is able to form the shapes. He tried to transfer the shapes on the activity sheet though he draw the line connecting
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The lesson is about knowing the concept of place value, and to familiarize first grade students with double digits. The students have a daily routine where they place a straw for each day of school in the one’s bin. After collecting ten straws, they bundle them up and move them to the tens bin. The teacher gives a lecture on place value modeling the daily routine. First, she asks a student her age (6), and adds it to another student’s age (7). Next, she asks a different student how they are going to add them. The students respond that they have to put them on the ten’s side. After, they move a bundle and place them on the ten’s side. When the teacher is done with the lesson, she has the students engage in four different centers, where they get to work in pairs. When the students done at least three of the independent centers, she has a class review. During the review she calls on different students and ask them about their findings, thus determining if the students were able to learn about place value.
Jenny asked, “On the first picture what do you see?” Jacob replies, “I see a bird who wants to learn to fly. The bird then draws pictures so he can figure out ways to fly. This picture the bird has the fan so he can learn how to fly; the wind is pushing him, and he can stay in one place and learn. Now he has the air glider thing that way he could also fly different ways and then once he can do that he can fly. Now he has a rocket booster so he can learn how to fly fast, and now he has crashed in all of them. The birds that can fly are laughing at him, and it makes him sad. Then I ask do you think he will give up? Jacob replies, “No since he does not care what others think and now he is trying to make a new machine so he can fly. He made an airplane so now he can fly, and the others will not laugh at him. The bird is happy at first he was sad now he is happy. Jenny asked, “Why do you think he did not give up?” Jacob replies, “He knew he could not fly so he built machines so that he could
Then the girl had to take a break because it was snack time. But after she was done she came right back to playing. She got the entire family up and at the breakfast table, where there were tiny plates sitting at each chair. “Once you’re done get dressed and hop in the car,” said the mother. A couple seconds later she piled all of her dolls in the car. “Where are we going momma,” asked the little boy. After she drives the car around their house she says “we’re at the drive through zoo!” The kids scream with excitement. “Remember children, these are exotic animals, they can be found in the wild or the zoo,” said the mother doll. When the car would drive by the animals, the girl would make animal sounds to its corresponding animal. In addition to the animal sounds that were made, the student also said “oooohhh” and “aahhh.” After they got through all the animals she drove the car around the house and took all of the dolls out. The student then stated that she was bored and was going to move on to another center. She cleaned up her mess and moved
“One day the kid wrote on the blackboard: “I see the ball.” And the old man studied it awhile and said, slowly, gingerly: “I ... see ... the … ball.” Maniac whooped, “ You’re reading!” “I'm reading!” Yipped the old man.His smile was so wide he’d have to break it into sections to fit it through the doorway.
Five minutes: Students will have dry erase boards, and the teacher will ask them to write a few words. As the students write the words make sure students are using their imaginary rubber band to stretch out the word. This exercise should focus on sounding out the different sounds in the words.
Once there was a boy names Terra, he was 7 years old. Today was his birthday. His parents didn’t know what to buy for him so they decided to take him to a store so he can pick what he wants. He went to a history section of the store. The section was filled with history sculptures. He was very interested in history. The other day he read about Terracotta Warriors, so he went right away and picked the Terracotta sculpture. His parents asked ‘Are you sure you want this?’. His parents were surprised that he didn’t pick stuff like books or toys. It was fifty six dollars.
Knutsen informed the students that they would be moving to the lab for the second period to begin their Scantron Assessment. He explained to them that the Scantron was an online test that allows you to answers questions based on math concepts you learned up to this point in your educational career. He informed them that every student in the building is taking the Math and Literacy tests and that you will use the computers in the lab to answer the questions. Next, Mr. Knutsen presented a few math topics on the SmartBoard in the form of review questions and asked the students to track the speaker and answer the question in their notebook. He set the timer for ten minutes and allowed the students to answer. When the timer rang, he asked students to go up to the SmartBoard, one by one, to answer the problems. The concepts reviewed in these problems were dividing fractions by fractions, creating a number line and solving equations. After the students wrote the answers on the board and Mr. Knutsen went through the problems, he moved on to the introduction of the Scantron
Start out by braiding the base for your extensions. The base is the area that the exte...
At age 6, George was hanging out with his older brother Garland and some of his friends, walking through the park playing around. His brother was at least 5 years older and and didn’t really want his younger brother hanging with him anyway so he instructed him not to do anything but sit when told to and not to speak at all. Garland and his friends decided to clean up the trashed park. They began to pick up the empty chip bags and soda bottles and things of the like. They then turned the corner to see a knocked over concrete slab. The slab was supposed to be a bench but it was just sitting in the middle of the park. George tryin...
All of a sudden Chunky Rice hears a clunk against the boat. He looks down to see a bottle, but not just any bottle-- a message in a bottle. He grabs a long rope, tied a loop into it and throw it towards the bottle. It catches the bottle and he is able to lift the bottle up to him. With much struggle he pulls out the stopper and fishes for the note with his fingers. He pulls out the message and unravels it. It
To investigate the notion of numeracy, I approach seven people to give their view of numeracy and how it relates to mathematics. The following is a discussion of two responses I receive from this short survey. I shall briefly discuss their views of numeracy and how it relates to mathematics in the light of the Australian Curriculum as well as the 21st Century Numeracy Model (Goos 2007). Note: see appendix 1 for their responses.
Observation: Teacher goes over to student struggling with math worksheet. Brings over abacus and sits next to him. Begins to demonstrate. “Now how many do we take away?” child is the one to show the math on abacus. “Now how many are left?” prompts child to count the rings in order to figure out problem. Slides first number over, gets student to take away the right number. Then counts the remaining to get the right answer.
Once, fifty people were attending a business conference. Suddenly, the moderator stopped, and conducted a fun activity. Each participant was given a balloon, and everyone had to write his or her name down with a marker pen. The moderator then collected all of the balloons and put them in another
The Nature of Mathematics Mathematics relies on both logic and creativity, and it is pursued both for a variety of practical purposes and for its basic interest. The essence of mathematics lies in its beauty and its intellectual challenge. This essay is divided into three sections, which are patterns and relationships, mathematics, science and technology and mathematical inquiry. Firstly, Mathematics is the science of patterns and relationships. As a theoretical order, mathematics explores the possible relationships among abstractions without concern for whether those abstractions have counterparts in the real world.