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Numeracy

The document summarizes a session on developing math skills through critical thinking and numeracy. Some of the topics discussed include: having students work with number sentences to create numbers between 1 and 10 using dice rolls; integrating fractions; encouraging multiple problem-solving strategies; using patterns of numbers and number sentences; word problems involving calculating paint or budgeting for a bedroom; using surface area to lay out an orange peel on a grid; relating technology to things that plug into a wall; teaching the connection between tables of values and graphing lines; using shape puzzles for line equations; and incorporating themes like magic or fictional works like Harry Potter for math problems. Links are also provided for additional math resources.

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Numeracy

The document summarizes a session on developing math skills through critical thinking and numeracy. Some of the topics discussed include: having students work with number sentences to create numbers between 1 and 10 using dice rolls; integrating fractions; encouraging multiple problem-solving strategies; using patterns of numbers and number sentences; word problems involving calculating paint or budgeting for a bedroom; using surface area to lay out an orange peel on a grid; relating technology to things that plug into a wall; teaching the connection between tables of values and graphing lines; using shape puzzles for line equations; and incorporating themes like magic or fictional works like Harry Potter for math problems. Links are also provided for additional math resources.

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Session Topic: Developing Math Skills -Critical Thinking & Numeracy

Time: 2:30-3:10 - TH 277


Scribe: Kendell Wiens

Connections to Specific Subjects


Mathematics

-Not only number sense, but spatial awareness as well.


-Bowling: Roll 3 dice. Create number sentences that equal
every number between 1 and 10.
-Integrate fractions as much as possible.
-Encourage students to try different/multiple strategies
-Work with patterns of numbers and number sentences.
-Take it beyond the answer to the discussion and pattern.
-How many liters of paint do we need to paint or room?
-Create your ideal bedroom on a budget.
-Surface area of an orange: peel and lay it out on grid.
-Technology outcomes? Things that plug into a wall.
-How do you teach the movement from table of values to
find the pattern and graph?
o Take the values around 0 for x. find the yintercept. Then find if its positive or negative and
by how much it changes.
o Providing matching opportunities so they can
discover their own method.
-Shape puzzles for equations of lines
-Magic in math.
-Harry Potter: How tall is Haggard? Similar things for
LOTR. How do camera angles lead to actors being
different proportions?
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Other
Links to Check out:
o http://wilsonnumeracy.weebly.com/number-sense1.html (PIP project for 2 PSIII
students at Wilson Middle School
o http://www.mathematicshed.com/uploads/1/2/5/7/12572836/mathsmademagic.pdf
(Examples of how magic can facilitate math and numeracy learning. Mathematic shed
has a lot of other ideas as well including a Jurassic park budgeting project)
o

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