This week has been great in Math class. Watching my little explorers work with shapes is fascinating. We are working on composing and decomposing shapes. Next week we will be partitioning, which is a new common core word. It is great to see how teaching my first graders these essential skills will prepare them to actually understand fractions! Can you imagine that? Often I reflect on how to do certain math skills especially when helping my daughters with their math. I can hear myself saying these rhymes that help me solve problems but have NO IDEA why they work. I think these rhymes are great for memorization, but we must ask ourselves is that our goal for our students--memorization. Yes, it is important but for understanding math concepts. I would have to say no.
I've added a word cloud to sum up the topics of this blog. This is another way to use technology to create interest. Let's remember technology is a great tool to teach our standards, but all in all we are teaching standards!!
Aimee
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