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K-16 Small Learning Community Project: YES Math Academy Collaborative. Eagle Ridge and GCSU. Learning Community. 4 elementary teachers from Eagle Ridge Elementary involved in the YES 2 mathematics education professors Weekly meetings for 4 months lasting approximately 1.5 hours. Goals.
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K-16 Small Learning Community Project: YES Math Academy Collaborative Eagle Ridge and GCSU
Learning Community 4 elementary teachers from Eagle Ridge Elementary involved in the YES 2 mathematics education professors Weekly meetings for 4 months lasting approximately 1.5 hours
Goals • Provide mathematical support to YES teachers • Share mathematical ideas and methods to enhance student learning • Increase content and pedagogical knowledge • Increase success rate in YES students under these instructors • Improve teacher preparation programs at GCSU
Project Activities • Content Enhancement • Technology Enhancement – use of manipulatives • Discussion of Current Research • Collaborative lesson planning
STEM Project: Graphing Football Statistics for 10 Weeks(Sept.-Dec.)
Experiences at Rock Eagle Math ConferenceExemplar Problem Solving Session
Rock Eagle Math in Motion Session • Why have an outdoor math classroom? • In Seven Ways of Knowing: Teaching for Multiple Intelligences, David Lazear says of Kinesthietic Intelligence found in Howard Gardner’s MultipleIntelligence theory: “Attaching a physical gesture or motion to something being learned can accelerate and deepen for it moves knowledge beyond ‘facts in the head’. It literally encodes the learning in the whole body/mind system, thus creating a greater integration and application of the knowledge with the rest of life.” • The presenters described their process of creating an outdoor math classroom in their school’s parking lot. They painted the following on the pavement: number lines, five and ten frames, graph grids, place value charts, hundreds charts, and a fact house. • K-2 Instructional Facilitator, my partner, has created Motion Mats using shower curtains and plastic tablecloths to use in trainings.
Rock Eagle Session onProblem Types Based on Children’s Mathematics; Cognitively Guided Instructionby Thomas P. Carpenter, Elizabeth Fennema, megan Loef Franke, Linda Levi, Susan B. Empson • Join Result Unknown (JRU) • Join change Unknown (JCU) • Join Start Unknown (JSU) • Separate Result Unknown (SRU) • Separate Change Unknown (SCU) • Separate Start Unknown (SSU) • Part-Part-Whole Whole Unknown (PPW-WU) • Part-Part-Whole Part Unknown (PPW-PU) • Compare Difference Unknown (CDU) • Compare Quantity Unknown (CQU) • Compare Referent Unknown (CRU) • Multiplication (Mult) • Measurement Division (MDiv) • Partitive Division (PDiv)
Next Professional Learning Training in April Developmental Problem Solving Strategies • Direct modeling • Counting • Derived number facts • Base ten understandings • View DVD with actual students
Using Rock Eagle Experiences in Professional Learning and with YES Students • Trained 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade teachers at Baldwin County’s four Elementary Schools using the text Children’s Mathematics; Cognitively Guided Instructionby Thomas P. Carpenter, Elizabeth Fennema, Megan Loef Franke, Linda Levi, Susan B. Empson Teaching Student-Centered Mathematics Grades 3-5 by John A. Van de Walle and LouAnn H. Lovin • January-April: Yes Students are investigating and representing mathematical relationships between quantities using mathematical expressions in problem-solving situations (Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division) • YES Students are being exposed to different problem types in word problem format and different solution strategies. This exposure should help students solve word problems on CRCT.
Concerns • Motivation of participants • Time of day • Fatigue level • Voluntary vs. “encouraged” participation • Materials • Manipulatives not always available for use