PowerPoint Slides for the Primary (grades 1 - 3) break-out sessions for the Kootenay-Boundary Regional Consortium Summer Institute in Numeracy, held in Cranbrook on August 27th, 2009.
42. Games Break! Four Sums in a Row Reach for the Stars! Pig Game! Closest to 100
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Editor's Notes
Hand out pieces of paper.
This is the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives. I will create a bar graph. Declare “Where you are at “ only if you feel comfortable. Some of the activities and manipulatives are excellent, some are so/so.
EXAMPLE: Understanding “not sufficient” 5 plus 6 With understanding count to 5, count to 6, count to 11 Good beginning with understanding. How do we help kids understand the relationships between facts?
Doubles are one of the major “cores” of basic facts.
Share books. Sally “Ten flashing FireFlies” “Ten for Dinner” Gloria find books. Lesson plan Talk about Lesson Plan page 27 in Fosnot Mention Chaper 8 page 127 on Mini Lessons
Personal strategies Your own way of figuring things out. ( In I.R.P. as Personal Strategies )
The big advance the algorithms brought about was a shift from calculation on a device to a written representation of the calculation. Arithmetic procedures & computational writing became the hallmark of knowledge during the Renaissance.
Kamii felt that algorithms are actually harmful to children’s mathematical development ( Kamii and Dominick (1989.
Kamii also found that some children were taught algorithms at home and that group “stopped thinking about the numbers.” They focused on the procedure. The No algorithm group got better at decomposing and become better mathematical thinkers. THIS PROCESS TAKES TIME. It does not happen over night but it does happen. LEAP OF FAITH
“say something” might be a question, a brief summary, a key point, an interesting idea….
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