Children's Mathematics Book Study: Part 2

We are on to calendar week 2 of our mass written report on Children's Mathematics.  I am as well as thus enjoying this mass as well as this week's chapters actually made me think nearly how I instruct kids as well as what sort of problems I expose them to.  It also helped me come across how far I get got come upward inwards my instruction exercise as well as how much of what I get got done has been based on Cognitively Guided Instruciton.  

If yous are only joining us, it is non to belatedly to bring together our mass study.  Grab a re-create of the mass as well as possibly a friend or 2 as well as boundary inwards when yous are ready.  Also, if this Dec is only to hectic for you, I volition last starting some other mass written report the instant calendar week inwards January.  Read to a greater extent than details nearly both mass studies here.  

Here is the posting schedule for Children's Mathematics:
Dec 7: Chapters 1- 3
Dec 14: Chapters iv & 5
Dec 21: Chapters six & 7
Dec 28: Chapters 8 - 10
Jan 4: Chapters xi - 13

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Chapter 4:  Multiplication as well as Division: Problem Types as well as Children's Solution Strategies 

three Possible Unknowns

I loved the agency the chapter started alongside the big ideas closed to multiplication as well as the 2 dissimilar types of partitioning problems.  When I commencement learned nearly partitive versus criterion (sometimes called ) division, it completely changed my instruction practice.  Upon examining the problems inwards my math programme as well as supplemental materials I was using alongside students, I came to the decision that most of the partitioning problems were partitive or sharing problems.  When I commencement started bespeak dissimilar work types, it was difficult for my students who had non been exposed to these types of problems.  Now I brand certain kids get got sense alongside the 9 dissimilar work types for multiplication as well as partitioning whether nosotros are working at the fact level, alongside double multiple digits or fifty-fifty alongside fraction as well as decimals.  

Primary Students Need to Solve Multiplication as well as Division Story Problems

12 work types for add-on as well as subtraction that solving multiplication as well as partitioning types story problems alongside master copy students every bit sort of fallen past times the wayside.  Reading nearly how these problems back upward house value evolution as well as how "base-ten problems are essentially multiplication or partitioning problems involving groups of 10" reminded me how of import it is for master copy students to solve to a greater extent than than add-on as well as subtraction problems.  A resources I used a groovy bargain when getting started alongside work solving alongside piffling kids was the Kindergarten Kindergarten blog as well as it is definitely a resources I demand to revisit.   

Further Reflection

I did get got a peak at the questions for farther reflection inwards the dorsum of this chapter as well as LOVED expose 2.  "Choose a mass that yous are reading alongside your students or a theme that yous are studying.  Write 1 work for each of the work types that relate to the story or topic."  I think this volition last a groovy agency to ensure my students acquire sense alongside these types of problems.  I volition last choosing a few books as well as doing this as well as volition last sharing these alongside yous every bit business office of my Monday Math Literature posts.  Check dorsum on Mon to come across the results!

Chapter 5: Beginning to Use Cognitively Guided Instruction 

When I commencement started using Cognitively Guided Instruction it was hard.  I felt similar I wasn't teaching.  If I didn't say kids how to produce it, how would they learn?  It definitely took some fourth dimension as well as a few disastrous lessons earlier I realized that past times allowing my students to create their ain learning was giving them a deeper, to a greater extent than meaningful agreement of math.  This chapter had some groovy ideas for getting started.  Here is what I think the v most of import things are to recollect if yous are only starting out.

1) It is your labor to stop "teaching" as well as start listening.  You REALLY demand to remove heed to how your students are solving problems as well as non only assume yous know what is going on.  

2) Make certain yous are using problems of dissimilar types.

3) Be strategic inwards who yous guide to portion their thinking alongside the entire class.  Make certain yous acquire a multifariousness of ideas.  This is non the fourth dimension to purpose call sticks or other random generators.  

4) Talk to your students nearly efficiency.  When multiple kids portion strategies verbalise nearly how efficent each 1 was.

5) The hardest business office tin last starting!

I am looking forrad to hearing your thoughts on this week's reading!  

 

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