Search results matching tags 'math' and 'incorporate'

Alice

Anonymous — Sun, 13 May 2012 12:00:00 GMT

Alice in Wonderland got its start as a simple story, told by a mathematics professor to a colleague's daughter. It's a strange story that seems to be the result of a drug trip, but is actually a scathing satire of the new-fangled math that the professor was seeing invade his area of study. There are many different guides to the math of Alice in Wonderland. Here are some great sites that you can get for free, that you can read to get a better understanding of Alice in Wonderland. Or read as a class to gain math insight from students in the class.

http://io9.com/5907235/a-math+free-guide-to-the-math-of-alice-in-wonderland?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427391.600-alices-adventures-in-algebra-wonderland-solved.html
http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_03_10.html
http://www.slideshare.net/breaker561994/math-in-alice-in-wonderland-chapters-4-6-presentation
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124632317
http://www.osnews.com/story/22972/It_Doesn_t_Add_up_Mathematics_in_Wonderland
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/opinion/07bayley.html?pagewanted=all

There are other great books out there that may more fully describe each mathematical encounter Lewis Carrol came in contact with during the book Alice in Wonderland.

Teach with your iPad

Anonymous — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT

Please, teach with your iPad. Math applications can range from flash cards to graphing calculators. One day an iPad can be a textbook, next a calculator, then review sheets. Lately, there have been several reference apps that contain formulas and other reference material. Featured is a link to over 80+ iPad applications in math. With pictures from the applications and reviews on the positive side and how you can incorporate them into your classroom. If you have an iPad (or a classroom set) let your students learn in a fun and engaging way.

The link can be found here: http://teachwithyouripad.wikispaces.com/Math+Apps

Good luck and have fun teaching students with a great mobile device.

Math Classroom Activities

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMT

Attached below is a link to different math classroom activities ranging from Jump Rope Math, Hula Hoop math, different problem sheets, cost comparisons, and factoring activities. These activities were created with one goal in mind and that was to incorporate physical movement and activities in to the math classroom.

http://www.clocc.net/partners/group/school/MathActivities.pdf

These activities are made for many different age levels and ability levels, but I know that you are talented teachers and just a little idea and your imagination can be a great tool for your student's success.

Happy Teaching.

Mammogram Math

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:00:00 GMT

I was reading an article in the current issue of Scientific American and the article I have seen numerous times of Bayes Theorem in the article, "Weighing the Positives." The full article is listed here: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=weighing-the-positives

It goes over Bayes Theorem and how testing normally does more harm than good. Not saying if you are getting a screen test you should not take it seriously, because you should. But to illustrate the math behind screening tests there is an applet at http://math.temple.edu/~tub97278/two_4.html that shows how likely you have a disease based on how accurate the test is.

Math Apparel

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:00:00 GMT

Every teacher needs a little math apparel from time to time, normally on Pi day I wear a pi shirt or some other math shirt that makes me look a little more geeky than I already do. At first I didn't know where to find shirts that incorporates math very well, so featured below is an activity to do with students that features t-shirts and also some math apparel directed towards teachers.

First and foremost, here are some links that have great teacher math shirts for you:
http://store.math.com/Apparel-Math_Apparel.html
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/sciencemath/?cpg=wnrss
http://shop.cafepress.com/math
http://mathematicianspictures.com/Shirts_.htm

(I'm not sure of the prices, normally you have to pay 20$ at some of the sites and haven't yet found a cheap place to buy them.)

This activity comes from a blog that I follow that gives all sorts of activities that students enjoy.

http://handsonmath.blogspot.com/2011/08/using-t-shirts-to-teach-math-properties.html

It is just a picture on the link, so I will post the picture below, but they use the t-shirt to put the properties of math on them to help students learn. In algebra I have the t-shirt hanging with all the properties on them and use it as a word wall. Then I normally give the shirt away at the end of the year.

Musical Math

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMT

Incorporating math in various subject areas are a great way to improve student achievement and career intrests. Everyone loves music, but everyone has their favorite type of music. A great website that integration resources, multimedia activities, and homeade instrument projects the students can make is at:

http://www.philtulga.com/resources.html.

It includes sequencing, fractions, pattern blocks, predictions, origami, subtraction, among other things. On his website there is a link called virtual field trips, where you explore the culture, tradition, and mathematics behind cultures.

Other meanings behind music include: fractions, sets, intersecting sets, ratios/fractions/decimals, and roots and powers.

A great website includes a Princeton proffessor who has come up with geometrical representations of musical instruments at: http://dmitri.tymoczko.com/

Webquest

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMT

Teacher's don't do enough.... WEBQUESTS. When I was growing up I never did webquests, all we did was look up information on sites that we couldn't use, because they weren't academic. But, now! Math webquests are unbelievable with minimal teaching, students say fully engaged and webquests are designed to keep students on the pages you want them to see. (Barring the schools Internet not allowing certain sites) A great website is Teachnology where they offer great webquests and all different kinds in math related fields. Other listed webquest sites are: Math Goodies, Planet Shick, and SDSU. All offer great webquest examples and even lessons that you could teach from.

Another great website comes from the Library of Congress has background information on mathematics and incorporating math and history is another great way to show who does math and where math comes from.

Incorporating Vocabulary

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMT

Incorporating vocabulary is essential in every classroom from English to science. Making the vocabulary fun and engaging is even more dificult, some teachers just hand out a vocabulary list and have the students memorize them. (SNORE!) A few of my favorite ways to incorporate vocabulary into the classroom is by playing games. I created a vocabulary cranium which includes math definitions instead of the game's words. There is sketching the answer, acting out the answer, solving the answer, and what Cranium calls word worm. I adapt my lesson and come up with cards and have the students play in teams and we have a little prize at the end. (The best is acting... who can act out parallel lines?)

Other ways to incorporate vocabulary is the person at the board is blind-folded and told to draw a vocab word and the team to guess it correctly wins. Next is tag vocabulary, I start the day with a jumbled list of vocab words on the board and when read the definition the students have to tag the appropriate word.

Lastly is the word wall, yes almost every teacher has one in his/her classroom, but I like to keep temporary word walls outside the classroom. I sometimes give the students sidewalk chalk and have the students write the word and the definition so they see it when they are leaving and when they are exiting the school. (Not on the walls of the school.) I have also purchased window markers, I am wondering if the students will/won't have trouble writing on the windows in the classroom.

Math Comics

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMT

There are always comic geeks out there and most of the time they are the same as math geeks. (I am one of them!) Comics are a great way to get artistic creations from students and learn about the math they are doing at the same time. First, show examples of comics and comic strips that incorporate mathematics in them.

Next, have your students write their own comics that incorporate the lesson or the previous lessons in their comic. Everyone loves to draw and it is not about how pretty or neat they look, it is about if they have the math right.

My class does gallery walks to show all the classes the comics they had written and sometimes I choose a prize for having the most creative or the most accurate comic strip.

Math Drama

Anonymous — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMT

Now once you read the header, you probably think math has gone and got in to some sorta trouble, well that may be true, but that's not the kind of drama I am talking about. Incorporating drama in math is great way to get kids up and acting out math. Some ideas brought forth are:

Using voice elements, body language, emotion, and the role the teacher plays in the classroom.

Body Sculpture can add some laughter to a geometry review of 2D and 3D shapes. Divide the class into groups with enough students to make the shapes that you are working on. Groups must try to be first to correctly make the shape called out by the teacher or leader

Many of these methods can be used for rote learning in other areas such as multiplication facts or formulas in math.

Links I found that include a great deal of drama are: Wahl and Narrative.

One video that I found that incorporates Math and drama is featured below.