My week in class

As I am thinking of how to start this post I cannot believe it but it's nothing ICT related! Anyway...

My team talked awhile ago about our maths programmes and making math overall more relevant and meaningful.We thought about our maths warmups and ensuring they weren't always number knowledge focused. We have found in the past that this does not cater for the vast range of knowledge ability in the class and wanted to do something differently.

So, this week for my maths warmups I have taught fractions. Each day I taught the same objective but in a different, motivating and 'real' way. I even differentiated it for my high-flyers by adding in some decimals and percentage work.

I found great ideas on Pinterest. If you are not signed up to pinterest then you really must!

Here are some posts we wrote on our class blog about our week of maths.

Cubes Fraction work

Pebbles Fraction work

Name Fraction work

Fraction Portraits

I even had one boy say "This is a good way to learn fractions" Imagine my excitement to hear that!

Teaching Fractions

http://www.teachingblogaddict.com/2012/01/fraction-videos-for-teachers.html?m=1

Fraction Videos - I thought these are a great tool for teaching fractions and also for chn to refresh and rewind to learn and remember.

An idea.... I could get someone (a child) to record myself teaching maths and upload to our maths blogs for chn to rewind and refresh.

Maths websites

Maths blogs

I am finding ways to extend 2 very capable mathematicians?!? We have grouped the 2 boys together (one is from room 10) and the other from my class.

In the past I have trialed making a blog for each of my maths groups so I decided to do the same for these 2 boys.

So...I have created a blog just for them :)

I met with these boys today (my student teacher is on full control so I am able to work one-on-one with them). They added their maths blog to the e-portfolios and thought it was very cool to have their own blog.

They are working on decimals at the moment - place value, ordering, skip counting in tenths and hundredths and adding and subtracting decimals. So I added some website for them to practice and asked them to post a reflection on their individual portfolios.

I will also add samples of work, or they will, and add on-going reflections from both the chn and myself.

Any other ideas on how to extend these 2 able mathematicians?

Here is the beginning of their e-portfolio:

http://ovalsgroup.blogspot.com/2011/06/maths.html

Doubles song!!!

I found this great song for teaching chn the doubles to 20!!!

If you want to post it on your class blog.... watch it and embed the code (copy and paste into a new post). Remember when you paste you need to click edit html first them compose.