Math Mansions Episode 22
Maths Mansion is a British educational TV series. It covers many mathematical concepts.
This videostreaming clip is on decimals (tenths, hundredths and thousandths)
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Math Mansions Decimals - tenths, hundredths, and thousandths
This videostreaming clip is on decimals (tenths, hundredths and thousandths)
Math Mansions - Decimals tenths and hundredths
Math Mansions Episode 3
Maths Mansion is a British educational TV series. It covers many mathematical concepts.
This videostreaming clip is on decimals (tenths and hundredths)
Friday, August 31, 2012
Decimal Squares
Our first unit of study is place value and understanding decimals. Students will be working on this unit over the next few weeks. There is a great decimal website called www.decimalsquares.com . This site has interactive games that provide extra practice on the concepts covered in class. It is a great way for students to practice their skills and expand their decimal knowledge.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Origami
http://www.origami-instructions.com/origami-flowers.html
Origami is a great hands-on activity that improves students' spatial visualization skills. There are lots of great sites on the Internet. This is one we used today in class.
Origami is a great hands-on activity that improves students' spatial visualization skills. There are lots of great sites on the Internet. This is one we used today in class.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Internet Resources
http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/#negative-numbers
This is a link to the Khan Academy page where students can watch a series of mini-lessons to help them better understand negative numbers. This is a new skill which I've only begun to teach this week. At this point, several students are finding it challenging - as I would expect. I'm sure this will be helpful.
Quite often, after I've taught a math lesson and we practice a new skill together in class, students feel that they "get it." When they have to do some additional practice independently for homework, they get stuck and there's no one available to answer their questions or to offer some help.
Khanacademy.org is a wonderful site full of brief video lessons on a wide variety of math topics. Students should explore this site so that when they need it, they can navigate it efficiently. In addition, students can turn to Google in order to find math tutorials. I will demonstrate this for them in class.
As the end of the school year approaches, I'm asking myself what more I need to teach my students before they leave elementary school. Since I can't possibly teach and review everything that every student will need to know going forward - and ensure that they will remember everything - the single most important thing I need to teach them is how to answer their own math questions.
This is a link to the Khan Academy page where students can watch a series of mini-lessons to help them better understand negative numbers. This is a new skill which I've only begun to teach this week. At this point, several students are finding it challenging - as I would expect. I'm sure this will be helpful.
Quite often, after I've taught a math lesson and we practice a new skill together in class, students feel that they "get it." When they have to do some additional practice independently for homework, they get stuck and there's no one available to answer their questions or to offer some help.
Khanacademy.org is a wonderful site full of brief video lessons on a wide variety of math topics. Students should explore this site so that when they need it, they can navigate it efficiently. In addition, students can turn to Google in order to find math tutorials. I will demonstrate this for them in class.
As the end of the school year approaches, I'm asking myself what more I need to teach my students before they leave elementary school. Since I can't possibly teach and review everything that every student will need to know going forward - and ensure that they will remember everything - the single most important thing I need to teach them is how to answer their own math questions.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Decimals on a Number Line
This is a review skill that I went over in class today. Students in homeroom 152 have to do this for tonight's homework, so I thought it would be helpful if they had a video to refer to.
Friday, April 6, 2012
April is National Financial Literacy Month
This post isn't directly related to what we're teaching in the red pod this week, but I recently read about an interesting website that I want to pass along. It's called KidWorth and it enables parents to set up a (non-interest earning) bank account for their child into which their allowance and monetary gifts can be deposited. Kids can then set goals for saving, charitable giving, or future spending on something they must save up for. At the same time, they are learning about saving, budgeting, and the rewards of delayed gratification.
I Googled KidWorth reviews and found that several mommy-bloggers endorse this site, but at the bottom of their blog posts they disclose that they are paid for their endorsement, so I looked further and I found the Living in Digital Times blog. The post entitled Reimagining Kids' Birthday Gifts gives a more objective (and overall positive) review of KidWorth, along with links to other websites that are designed to teach kids money-management skills. Here's a Wall Street Journal article entitled How I Spent My Allowance about a 10-year-old's experience using a site like KidWorth.
Since my own kids are grown, I have no firsthand experience with sites like this. However, my 28-year-old daughter uses a site called Mint.com to keep track of all things financial in her life. After becoming keenly aware of their spending habits and redirecting that money, she and her husband saved for a downpayment on their first home. I asked if she wasn't concerned about having all her financial information stored in cyberspace and she responded, "Mom, your information is stored in cyberspace whether you choose to access it there or not."
So this is the world our children live in, or will live in. The more cashless our society becomes, the more mindful we need to be about our money.
Do you use KidWorth or a site like it? Leave a commnt to share your firsthand experience.
I Googled KidWorth reviews and found that several mommy-bloggers endorse this site, but at the bottom of their blog posts they disclose that they are paid for their endorsement, so I looked further and I found the Living in Digital Times blog. The post entitled Reimagining Kids' Birthday Gifts gives a more objective (and overall positive) review of KidWorth, along with links to other websites that are designed to teach kids money-management skills. Here's a Wall Street Journal article entitled How I Spent My Allowance about a 10-year-old's experience using a site like KidWorth.
Since my own kids are grown, I have no firsthand experience with sites like this. However, my 28-year-old daughter uses a site called Mint.com to keep track of all things financial in her life. After becoming keenly aware of their spending habits and redirecting that money, she and her husband saved for a downpayment on their first home. I asked if she wasn't concerned about having all her financial information stored in cyberspace and she responded, "Mom, your information is stored in cyberspace whether you choose to access it there or not."
So this is the world our children live in, or will live in. The more cashless our society becomes, the more mindful we need to be about our money.
Do you use KidWorth or a site like it? Leave a commnt to share your firsthand experience.
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