Thursday, March 26, 2009

Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 03/27/2009


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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 03/23/2009


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Saturday, March 21, 2009

Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 03/22/2009


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Sunday, March 15, 2009

Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 03/16/2009


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Monday, March 9, 2009

Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 03/10/2009

  • Brain research is indicating that students need to be able to fluently/efficiently need to be able to compute basic skills while performing higher-level skills. No easy answer about how to develop these basic skills in older students who are still struggling, but does make a direct connection between basic skills and number sense. Important to continue to understand that these skills can and need to be developed in upper grades.

    tags: algebra, math, procedural fluency, fluency

    • “Cognitive psychologists have discovered that humans have fixed limits on the attention and memory that can be used to solve problems. One way around these limits is to have certain components of a task become so routine and over-learned that they become automatic.” Whitehurst, 2003
    • The research cited above highlights the importance of math fact fluency; however, the computation capabilities of American students appear to be falling. Tom Loveless of the Brookings Institute has reviewed responses to select items on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and concluded that performance on basic arithmetic facts declined in the 1990s (Loveless, 2003).
  • tags: computational, fluency, math

  • Powerful topic, poverty and patterns in data relationships over time, WOW. Hans Rosling uses some incredible statistical software to present the data, but the idea can be mimicked using some PP type technologies and creating graphs. The topic of poverty is explored in a very easy understandable way; I think high school students would understand the topic and love the idea. Make sure you listen to his use of the databases, and remember he is one of the premier statisticians in the world. He is changing how he presents data, and I think we need to listen to his message on this topic.

    tags: statistics, TED, instruction, math, data


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Friday, March 6, 2009

Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 03/07/2009

  • another example of looking at the transmission of data from teacher to student differently in the age of technology. Teachers must realize that it's not just saying the information, but allowing students opportunities to interact with the material, and in lecture situations, teachers must create opportunities for students to interact. In high school, especially, it is important that teachers understand the model that they are used to doesn't work and that they must prepare students to be able to take valuable notes that in which they make connections to.

    tags: notetaking, write2learn, web2.0, podcasting, 21stcenturyskills


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Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 03/04/2009

  • While some professors seek to exclude the devices from the classroom, others are creating multimedia-rich curricula in which students can draw on online resources and interact with each other. Banning laptops is just plain wrong, according to Don Krug, associate professor at UBC’s department of curriculum studies. He says students are adults, and the best a professor can hope for is a “respectful learning environment,” where students limit their own behaviour. “If they really want to learn the information, they will. They’re paying a lot of money,” he says. “We’re better off teaching them how to be responsible learners.” Shows two polar solutions to laptop problems: total ban & adapting curricula to include multi-media interaction. Also presents respectful learning environment as best course for students who are adults. - comment by Kent Gerber

    tags: laptops, 21stcenturyskills, instruction


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Sunday, March 1, 2009

Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 03/02/2009


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