I read something on the google about people not liking to read mathematics texts. I can understand that thought because a mathematical statement can be quite information dense and most of my students are not taught to read mathematics. I realized today that I am using normal reading techniques with my students rather than actually teaching my students to break down a statement into its component parts. I need to start doing that beginning Monday. I think I will have the students take a picture of a sentence off the board, import it into an app that allows students to write notes on top of the photo. This way they can add notes to the photo and incorporate it into their over all notes. On the other hand if the notetaking app already allows them to import photos and annotate them directly in their notes, then they do not need the extra steep.
This would give them a dictionary of sorts that could help them improve their mathematical reading skills so they are both more willing to read and to comprehend better what they are reading so they might do better in the subject.
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Showing posts with label Literacy in math.. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Ways to increase literacy in Math.
This week and next, I will be going through some word problems from the palette of problems in the NCTM middle school teachers magazine from May. I am having them go through the following questions as they work on the project.
1. What do we know?
2. What do we find?
3. What do we need to consider in order to solve it?
4. Solving it.
In about three weeks, I am going to give them a choice of creating a cartoon, making a book, or creating something artistic that will show the information from the four questions. All of these projects will be created on the iPad using any of the apps. If two or three students want to work together to create a movie, I would allow them to do that.
In the meantime, I want to get a green screen app, a whiteboard app, and a couple other apps that would allow students who are more of an artist to be able to complete the assignment. This will have a definite time period and rubric associated with it.
I want to show that math is not always pencil and paper calculations.
1. What do we know?
2. What do we find?
3. What do we need to consider in order to solve it?
4. Solving it.
In about three weeks, I am going to give them a choice of creating a cartoon, making a book, or creating something artistic that will show the information from the four questions. All of these projects will be created on the iPad using any of the apps. If two or three students want to work together to create a movie, I would allow them to do that.
In the meantime, I want to get a green screen app, a whiteboard app, and a couple other apps that would allow students who are more of an artist to be able to complete the assignment. This will have a definite time period and rubric associated with it.
I want to show that math is not always pencil and paper calculations.
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