Thank you for the acorns today. I do love those trees...but man do they grow slowly!
I'm thinking about the many ways we learned to be active and interactive while teaching math. Today was full of wonderful tips, ideas, inspiration! I'm letting it all setting in and looking forward to how these ideas will grow with me and become a rooted part of my teaching.
The manipulatives that we worked with today were helpful in numerous ways. The geometric shapes we were interacting with helped me in numerous ways. Being able to understand which shapes and rules apply to each other and can or cannot change in various ways, deepened my understanding of geometry. It helped my technology skills working! That's interdisciplinary (at least for me ;)!
Using the program and interaction with shapes on the "Can you make it" program helps build technology skills AND mathematics; it could be use with students of various ages. I work with second graders and I could see them benefiting from the interaction of these virtual manipulatives. It not only will sharpen their understanding of the quadrilaterals, or other shapes, but it helped them use their motor skills and technology skills at the same time. Sounds like a great way to keep kids of all ages (even in college) interacting with technology and math of all shapes, sizes, and styles....
I'm still wondering about... How on earth did you get that "Buzz Light Year" to show you exactly the motion and bounce that you wanted to demonstrate!! That is some serious corduroy, jumper, teacher skill!!
I'm thinking about the many ways we learned to be active and interactive while teaching math. Today was full of wonderful tips, ideas, inspiration! I'm letting it all setting in and looking forward to how these ideas will grow with me and become a rooted part of my teaching.
The manipulatives that we worked with today were helpful in numerous ways. The geometric shapes we were interacting with helped me in numerous ways. Being able to understand which shapes and rules apply to each other and can or cannot change in various ways, deepened my understanding of geometry. It helped my technology skills working! That's interdisciplinary (at least for me ;)!
Using the program and interaction with shapes on the "Can you make it" program helps build technology skills AND mathematics; it could be use with students of various ages. I work with second graders and I could see them benefiting from the interaction of these virtual manipulatives. It not only will sharpen their understanding of the quadrilaterals, or other shapes, but it helped them use their motor skills and technology skills at the same time. Sounds like a great way to keep kids of all ages (even in college) interacting with technology and math of all shapes, sizes, and styles....
I'm still wondering about... How on earth did you get that "Buzz Light Year" to show you exactly the motion and bounce that you wanted to demonstrate!! That is some serious corduroy, jumper, teacher skill!!
