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Of course it’s nice to be told “I love you!” when I helped the MySpanishLab student figure out that the computer thought the right answer was invierno, so “el invierno” would be ‘incorrect.’ I’m working on my subtraction video and bringing in the big idea that for adding and subtracting, “it’s same to same.” […]
August 29, 2013
No conclusions, but evidence making me consider: OMGGG (Oh, my goodness gracious gosh ;)) these students want to succeed, and these ladies *weren’t* just trying to get the problems done; they were trying to understand. Two: Yes, I *need* to figure out how to make the practice. (Well, that’s a conclusion. […]
August 28, 2013
Three students came down from our new version of “Transitions,” a.k.a. pre-pre-algebra, wherein it’s all about the concepts. No time for a blow-by-blow, but… they were *reveling* in understanding what to do next and why, and there was testimony about having been able to get answers in math, but not being able to show the […]
August 28, 2013
IT’s up 🙂 The next teeny little installment… http://www.resourceroom.net/mec/index.html has the link under “finding wholes.” It’s still pretty rough and only a little visual — but I realized I had to do the Deadline Thing. Hope to have “finding parts” up Thursday. It also hurts not to have time to get the interactive lessons going. The […]
August 27, 2013
My first clue was that in trying to explain why subtracting a negative ended up giving a bigger answer, I drew the number line to show the difference between 2 and -7. Now, it wasn’t a very good drawing; but good enough so that my construction majors generally do the grand aha! No, […]
August 24, 2013
Flipping the idea of the previous post — the marvels of visualization, made easy by technology — is the nasty little fact that I’ve worked with 3 students this week whose formidable and primary barrier to understanding the content is… the technology. One is in the new “project based” pre-algebra … but underpinning all […]
August 24, 2013
… overheard in the mailroom, where student tutors were talking … that Omar (in charge of peer tutoring) had made the computer make a visual representation of equations.. .and now, the student sees the equation and the visualization happens. I’m guessing it’s Mathematica … but yea, that’s what I want to make possible […]
August 21, 2013
Student rounded 26,482 to 27,000…. she *did* get things like 29,566 wentto 30,000… Instead of doing the “here’s the rule, look at the next number” thing, I read the whole rest of the number (with writing and underlining and pointing)… focusing on the idea that I needed to know if I was halfway there, and […]
August 19, 2013
Okay, I forgot to go upstairs to meet teh 3:00 class. Hoping to set up some kind of “alert” on my desk for things like that. Will try post-it notes. Java class started. I had [need word for anticipated in such a way so as not to be disappointed] braced myself for it being less […]
August 19, 2013
… or… ack, have we started the journey? http://www.resourceroom.net/mec/ is out there. Java class starts tomorrow. Sleep happens soon 🙂
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