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In the past two weeks, we discussed geometry and spatial sense and measurement concepts. I enjoy these topics more so than ratios and algebra because I find them to be more relatable and I see these concepts more so in my day to day life. In the last two sessions, we had very exciting and engaging learning activities. For geometry and spatial sense, we had an awesome bingo game involving shapes! This activity was awesome because it allowed us to briefly review the concepts of basic 2D & 3D shapes before diving into the game. We then moved onto the BINGO game which was a super engaging group activity. I actually hope to implement this game or something similar in my Grade 4/5 placement during my time teaching them math. This article provides some more ways to implement bingo into math as well as other engaging activities for math lessons. For measurement, we had another great activity involving standard and non-standard units of measurements. This helped introduce us to how we use everyday objects to estimate measurements of something. I appreciated how this activity allowed us to see how our estimations may not always be very accurate and helps us understand the importance of accurately measuring something. We also had our final game forum post this past week. I really loved the game chosen for geometry and spatial sense. This game was called tangrams and allowed players to create a larger shape by rotating, translating, and reflecting multiple basic shapes together. Tangrams included a lot of the principles students learn in geometry and spatial sense. I loved how this game could be made tech-less by simply printing out the materials and students completing the activity hands on. In Week 8 we began diving more into the lesson plan. I knew this was coming up, but I was very anxious when we started going through it. After a more thorough discussion and with some questions answered, I feel so much more confident in creating a lesson plan and understanding each component. Especially for math, I'm eager to work with a partner because we can provide each other support and different perspectives when creating this lesson plan. I am looking forward to completing this assignment as well as other lesson plans in other classes as well. Looking at the activities we completed in class, I was not overtly engaged in participating but following teamwork, I was way more confident and excited. I particularly liked the manipulative we used to create different shapes which I believe were called Exploragons. This manipulative is very hands-on and allows for students to explore their creativity and work with creating real shapes. Another manipulative I like for geometry is geoboards. Geoboards are also very creative and allow for students to actually create the shapes then just visualize them. I remember using these all the time in elementary school, and I'm sure some others reading this, or in our class definitely used these or remember them! Measurement was also a great lesson to refresh my memory on things and learn different ways to teach this. I love how we touched on teaching through literature because making subjects more intertwined may make things more relatable for students. In my placement, I know when my teacher discusses something in math and then mentions it again in literacy, students are excited and believe math concepts can be seen and used in other aspects of their learning. Viewing our Making Math Meaningful textbook more in-depth lately, I find it has so many activities to use for Minds On components of lesson plans. I will definitely be diving into this for my lesson plan for this class. I found this very good introductory video one could use at the beginning of the Measurement section which I have embedded below. We are certainly winding down in this course, and I'm certainly feeling more confident in my math teaching skills already.
Welcome, and thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. My name is Megan Winger and the Brock Math Blog is all about the math class I am taking at Brock University in the Consecutive Teacher Education program. This blog will entail everything from this class from reflections, ideas, discussions and much more. Math has been both a success and failure for me so I am interested to see where this course will take me in terms of my attitude toward math and how I will successfully teach Math. Stay tuned for all the ups, downs, good and bad! Talk soon.
Well, another couple weeks into 8P29 and more math information has been flowing. The last couple of sections focused on fractions, decimals, and integers—more number sense and numeration. I was interested in the different tools and manipulatives we can use to teach and represent fractions. Candy and chocolate is a good tool but can be messy for younger grades so it would definitely need to be considered carefully and thoroughly. I also ran my learning activity during one of the sessions. Completing this task was fun but a bit challenging. I wanted to create an activity that was engaging and fun but also very connected to the curriculum. It was very helpful using our textbook—Making Math Meaningful—to help spark ideas for an actual activity. There were so many sample activities discussed throughout the chapter for fractions and decimals, and even ones that you could implement both concepts into one activity. This I thought was very important because in math a lot of concepts are interco...
In the past two weeks, we discussed geometry and spatial sense and measurement concepts. I enjoy these topics more so than ratios and algebra because I find them to be more relatable and I see these concepts more so in my day to day life. In the last two sessions, we had very exciting and engaging learning activities. For geometry and spatial sense, we had an awesome bingo game involving shapes! This activity was awesome because it allowed us to briefly review the concepts of basic 2D & 3D shapes before diving into the game. We then moved onto the BINGO game which was a super engaging group activity. I actually hope to implement this game or something similar in my Grade 4/5 placement during my time teaching them math. This article provides some more ways to implement bingo into math as well as other engaging activities for math lessons. For measurement, we had another great activity involving standard and non-standard units of measurements. This helped introduce us to how we use everyday objects to estimate measurements of something. I appreciated how this activity allowed us to see how our estimations may not always be very accurate and helps us understand the importance of accurately measuring something. We also had our final game forum post this past week. I really loved the game chosen for geometry and spatial sense. This game was called tangrams and allowed players to create a larger shape by rotating, translating, and reflecting multiple basic shapes together. Tangrams included a lot of the principles students learn in geometry and spatial sense. I loved how this game could be made tech-less by simply printing out the materials and students completing the activity hands on.
In Week 8 we began diving more into the lesson plan. I knew this was coming up, but I was very anxious when we started going through it. After a more thorough discussion and with some questions answered, I feel so much more confident in creating a lesson plan and understanding each component. Especially for math, I'm eager to work with a partner because we can provide each other support and different perspectives when creating this lesson plan. I am looking forward to completing this assignment as well as other lesson plans in other classes as well. Looking at the activities we completed in class, I was not overtly engaged in participating but following teamwork, I was way more confident and excited. I particularly liked the manipulative we used to create different shapes which I believe were called Exploragons. This manipulative is very hands-on and allows for students to explore their creativity and work with creating real shapes. Another manipulative I like for geometry is geoboards. Geoboards are also very creative and allow for students to actually create the shapes then just visualize them. I remember using these all the time in elementary school, and I'm sure some others reading this, or in our class definitely used these or remember them! Measurement was also a great lesson to refresh my memory on things and learn different ways to teach this. I love how we touched on teaching through literature because making subjects more intertwined may make things more relatable for students. In my placement, I know when my teacher discusses something in math and then mentions it again in literacy, students are excited and believe math concepts can be seen and used in other aspects of their learning. Viewing our Making Math Meaningful textbook more in-depth lately, I find it has so many activities to use for Minds On components of lesson plans. I will definitely be diving into this for my lesson plan for this class. I found this very good introductory video one could use at the beginning of the Measurement section which I have embedded below. We are certainly winding down in this course, and I'm certainly feeling more confident in my math teaching skills already.
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