Kayla's Math Blog

Hello Everyone, Welcome back to my blog spot where we have been talking about different math concepts and abilities I've been learning in the classroom over the last six weeks. Math In Real Life How many times have our students asked us where are we going to use math? When will we use this formula? or Why do we need to learn math? Well after last weeks discussion we learned that math is all around us. I found a really neat example as I have been immersed in it in my job as a cheerleading coach. I never realized that we use so many different math concepts such as counts, angles, stability, aerodynamics, etc. We need to know what is going to work when it comes to throwing others in the air, building pyramids, jumping and creating a routine that involves dance. Here is the example that I shared which is something that is more complicated then I teach but I start from the basics and realized how much more I see math in my routines. PCT Cobras Temptation Intl Open Large

Welcome back everyone, We need to get our children more involved in math and begin to love math. According to this article  we need to find ways in which to get our students loving math more. In order get children more engaged in math and making them become more fluent in it we need to encourage play. Experiential learning activities in informal contexts, actual or virtual, are designed so that when children play, engage, explore, or interact, they cannot help but learn science and mathematics because they are doing science or mathematics. The way children feel about mathematics profoundly influences what they do with it and how they reflect on it, which in turn influences how knowledge grows and connects.  This week was all about the way in which we have our students learn and become more in love with math by using visuals, manipulatives and technology. Let's start with visuals & manipulatives. Some of our students really need this help when it comes to learning math.

Hello Everyone, Today I'd like to go into some new ideas of how to make math more interesting for those who either hate math because it seems way to complicated and those who find it boring because they are not being challenged enough. But what is a rich task in math? Good question! After reading this articl e by Jennifer Piggott it came to a definition about what a rich task is. Rich Tasks have a range of characteristics that offer different opportunities to meet the different needs of learners at different times. It involves the support and questioning that is used by the teacher and the roles that learners are encouraged to adopt. A rich task is not rich on its own but in what it is made of. The characteristics of a rich task were as follows: accessible and extendable, one which allows learners to make decisions, involving learners in testing, proving, explaining, reflecting and interpreting, promoting discussion and communications, encouraging originality and inven