37. Challenge: How can we give opportunities for all students to develop - not only literacy in mathematics and science, but also an interest and a “voice” ?
Editor's Notes
I’m Kelly Gaddis, this is Annie Lerew and Nic Vitale, and we are from Banana Kelly High School in New York City’s South Bronx. It is a neighborhood school, our 9 th grade classes have 20-25 students, most of whom come to us with weak literacy skills and number sense, and having had minimal success in middle school math. Confidence is low, and in general, kids are not accustomed to tinkering or experimenting, conjecturing or asking “what if…,” or simply wondering for the sake of it in math class. We use the notebooks to help kids open up to those. In the day-to-day, the math-science notebooks are simultaneously a place for learning and for finding out about our students’ learning.
Explain how sketching and drawing helps focus on details to make better observations
One way of recording - put it in the notebook. Also inserts (hanouts etc.)
Great way of making sense of or explaining a concept.
Just an example - we would like to facilitate more of this
One prompt - many responses
Different ways of organizing data.
Unanticipated use of notebooks. “ word-sketches” Thermometer plots Amazing artwork.
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