Monday, April 22, 2013

Final Post!


“Based on the vision you elaborated last week, what role will math instruction play in your classroom and why?  Specifically, what are the mathematical instructional techniques or methods that fit with your vision?  Be as specific as possible.  These can include assessment, planning, or interactive teaching.” 

Math is something that should be integrated into the classroom as much as possible. There are many opportunities to incorporate math instruction throughout the day. Math instruction will play an important role in my classroom because it helps with logical and critical thinking, and life skills. It will be my job to help students realize the importance of math and help them see math everywhere they look. I'd like to teach my students the importance of math rather then just teaching it to them and have them go with the flow and not challenge themselves. I'd like to give them a purpose for mathematics. 
My plan for mathematical instructional techniques will be to use a lot of hands on activities (if teaching younger elementary) If I were teaching middle to upper elementary I would still use hands on activities to teach some concepts. Another strategy that I could use are worksheets when necessary to see how a student is working out a multiplication problem.  I also plan on using a lot of high-level tasks with connections. This is useful to use this method so that my students can have an integrated math instruction which is helpful in life skills, and logical and critical thinking. 
One last important thing to mention is having math discussions. This is a great way to involve children to be thinking about math with their peers. 

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