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… okay, I do plan to do something to make a visual representation, but whether for fractions or anything, I was wondering about a “process of elimination” game. The theme would be the common one of invaders coming at you — but instead of clicking the right answer, you blow up the wrong ones, and […]
November 14, 2011
PARCC is the “Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers.” It’s essentially the latest Big Movement to Fix Education. Here’s a pithy quote about it from Catherine Gewertz at Education Week: In response to another strand of reviewer feedback, PARCC also attempts to offer more specifics to guide creation of math courses at […]
November 14, 2011
I’m checking out “http://www.learnzillion.com/lessons/21” and I jumped into the first multiplication lesson, “Solve multiplication using arrays.” First thing that happens is that I am informed that I *know* that a horizontal line is called a row, and a vertical line is called a column, *and* that I “know” that I can use models to represent […]
November 11, 2011
So am I. “She told us not to do the ones with the semicircles because she hasn’t talked about it yet…. but… maybe we could just learn it?” (Okay, I could just end right here. No kidding, that’s what she said.) “Okay, why can’t you just do this the same way as the whole circles?” […]
November 11, 2011
I’m at my desk; they’re at the table in the lab, talking about how hard math is for them… and then, how now it’s making more sense. Why? Because the regular teachers teach it and then just move on,but here, we go back over it. Taking notes I am, over here. Yes, it is something […]
November 9, 2011
Yesterday was the day for figuring out right triangle sides. The fearless instructor wrote “Pythagorean Theorem” on the board. One of the students doing very well drily declared that this was one of those things that teachers always explained, but nobody ever really understood. The teacher said that she wasn’t a betting woman, but she […]
November 4, 2011
Here are today’s first 600-odd words. I hadn’t thought about math as being a way to build and enhance learning…. oops, better go down and put this *in* It grieved her sorely, she thought… this guy really, really doesn’t like figuring out the area and perimeter of half a circle. Too taxing on the working […]
November 1, 2011
http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/10/are-online-math-programs-better-than-literacy/ The opener to this article: I’ve heard a recurring complaint from different school administrators: The quality of literacy software is not as high as that of math. What ?!? Oh, yea, math has some concepts but it’s easy to break them out. Then it says that the software is easier to make because you […]
November 1, 2011
http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/11/e-readers-help-spread-literacy-no-apps-needed/ This article calls for us to look to cheap text-to-speech instead of fussing with cutting edge ipad stuff.
November 1, 2011
… I failed to blog about the alternative to Camtasia that I was invited to try, for free, me being a teacher type with an .edu address and all. I failed to get around to looking at it for a week or two… and now I cannot find it. GRRRR…. Well, lost software, you get […]
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November 26, 2011
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