Education
Educational setting of a mathematics lesson
Successful teachers understand how to integrate personal, family, and community experiences and cultural norms of young children into their lessons to develop young children’s mathematical thinking. These are also incorporated into collaborative and supportive interaction in the early childhood classroom.
For this assignment, use the grade level of your field experience class and select 1-3 math standards based on content that is currently being taught. You will be implementing one of these activities in a future field experience. Develop three cooperative group activities for groups of 3-4 students. One group activity should be technology -based, one should focus on problem solving, and one should focus on active inquiry.
Describe each activity in 250-500 words, including the following:
Standards-based objective
Content related, age appropriate vocabulary
Strategies that integrate personal, family, community
The Christmas confusion
In this Discussion Board, you will work with problem solving.
1. First review the material on problem solving in the text.
Next, go to http://www.engin.umich.edu/~problemsolving/ and read about problem solving.
Third, go to http://www.greylabyrinth.com/puzzles/puzzle.php?puzzle_id=puzzle151 and try to solve this problem.
Post your solution here (Please do NOT check the solution first). Tell us how you tried to solve the problem, and what method might have been more successful. Be sure to refer back to the information in the textbook.
Understanding of individual student’s cultures
When early number and operation concepts are taught well, children move from understanding “10” as ten ones to understanding “10” as one unit of ten. This knowledge can be applied in many mathematical operations, including addition and subtraction.
Select at least three number and operations in base ten standards for the grade level of your field experience classroom. Design three learning centers for a small group of students that will be run by volunteers. In developing your learning centers, consider students’ personal, family, community experiences, and cultural norms, and how those can be integrated into the math centers. Create one learning center that promotes active inquiry, one that includes problem solving, and one that incorporates technology .
For each learning center, write a 150-250 word handout for the volunteer who will be facilitating each center’s activity.
Include the following in each handout:
Purpose and learning objective aligned to the state standard
Narrative essay.
Choose a subject appropriate for a narrative essay, using one specific experience from your own life.
Your body paragraphs will take the reader through the story itself; your introduction and conclusion will situate the story.
You will use first person in this essay.
Bring your description skills to your work! I look forward to seeing your richly describe the setting, characters, and actions.
Dialogue is acceptable but not necessary. I’d rather have you write the scenes and events without significant or lengthy dialogue.
Make sure that you follow the narrative arc and have the story grow from a central problem that provides the story’s purpose and exigence.
Grading Overview (also: see our rubric)
Sensory details — do you paint a clear picture of your moment and scene for the reader?
Organization and development – do you use transitions that work to improve the flow of your paper? Does your paper have a chronology to order it?
Focus and perspective – please do not refer to the act of writing the paper or the assignment itself.
Dominant impression – what idea do you want your reader to come away with after reading your story?
Mechanics – see your textbook, or visit the Writing Center, for help with this.
Conceptual and a theoretical framework.
Post an explanation of how Grant and Osanloo (2014) describe the differences between conceptual and a theoretical framework. Support your explanation with examples from the article as well as from your texts.
Be sure to support your main post and response post with reference to the week’s Learning Resources and other scholarly evidence in APA style.
Learning Resources
Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.
Required Readings
Ravitch, S. M., & Carl, N. M. (2016). Qualitative research: Bridging the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Chapter 2, “Using Conceptual Frameworks in Research” (pp. 33–63)
Chapter 3, “Critical Qualitative Research Design” (pp. 65–110) (focus on pp. 85–89)
Rubin, H. J., & Rubin, I. S. (2012). Qualitative interviewing: The art of hearing data (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Chapter 1, “Listening, Hearing, and Sharing” (pp. 1–11)
Chapter 2, “Research Philosophy and Qualitative Interviews” (pp. 13–24)