My Journey through Education

Measurement Misconceptions Why do you think the students are having difficultly? I think the students are having difficulty because measurement with rulers might be something they have never done before. When we do something new for the first time without any instruction we most of the time do it wrong.  What misunderstanding are they demonstrating? The misunderstanding they are demonstrating is how to correctly use a ruler. Some students don't know how to use a ruler and don't know you have to start at the 0 mark. Some don't understand what the marks on a ruler mean. And some students just want to guess. Have you witnessed any students experiencing some of these same difficulties? I haven't had the change of working with students on measurement in my field experience so no I have not witnessed this. What types of activities could you implement that would help these children?  I would try to find online resources like videos or games that would help the student...

Coordinate Grids The websites that I explored were:  Gregs Grid Graphs- I thought this site was a good one. It has the student first figure out the coordinates by matching the letters to the coordinates. The it shows the points with letters and the students need to write out the coordinate. One thing I notices though is that it states that the coordinates are written with parentheses but when the site has you write out the coordinates it doesn't allow enough typing to do so. This could confuse students in the long run and not use parentheses.  Stock the Shelves- I think students would think this is a fun game to play. It makes you be completely accurate on clicking your points, if you are even a little bit in the box and not on the center of the 2 lines it counts it wrong. This is something that students could do to practice to make sure they are understanding where coordinates are. This also includes negative coordinates so it would probably be better for students wh...

Pentomino Activities Before going on the website to do this activities I thought they were going to be super easy. Boy was I wrong. It took me multiple tries to figure out 1 way to get them to work on the easy level. I tried multiple times for a good 10 minutes on the medium level. I even asked my boyfriend to come try and he also had a hard time and ending up giving up after a couple tries. This made me feel a little better about not being able to figure it out. haha One thing I did notice doing this activity was that if i was able to use certain pentominos more then once it would be a lot easier to do. But that isn't the case. I tried the hard one once just to see what it looked like and as you can guess I was unable to figure it out. I became very frustrated with the petomino spatial activities as I tried several times and just couldn't figure it out. I feel like if it is hard for me how can I expect my elementary students to be able to do it. If I had them do activities ...

Nets Activity  I would do a similar activity in my class by having them guess before starting how many and which ones could be folded into a box without the lid. After taking a vote we would test it out as a class. I think by doing it as a class it would be easier for students because they could talk it out with each other.   I thought the activity was pretty simple I knew from the start that the one with 5 in a straight line wouldnt work and same with the one that had 2 blocks touching 2 blocks so that meant I only needed to come up with 2 more that wouldnt work. I had a little trouble with the other 2 that didn't work and need to fold them to make sure I was right. Some problems I think students would have it possibly ripping the pieces or not folding the blocks on the lines so it might not look like a block without a lid.  What grade level do you think an activity like this would best work for? Or could this be something used by all grade levels? Tex...

Quick Images Video In this video the first image the teacher shows the students is one that to be I would describe as a moon with a small circle in the middle of it. After showing the students the shape 2 types and allowing them time to draw the shape they talk about it as a class. One thing the teacher says is she asked the students is the shape reminds them of anything. This is a good way to remember things because you are comparing it to an actual item. One student says what I stated in the beginning that is looks like a moon. Another student compares the shape to the letter C. Other students name things that is reminds them of, this shows that there isn't just 1 correct answer for questions like this.  Did you think of anything else that is looks like that the students didn't say? Shapes and Geometric Definitions My definitions for these geometric terms come from many years ago in elementary school or maybe even before that in preschool. I just always remember that...

Key Ideas in Geometry What are the key ideas of geometry that you want your students to work through during the school year? The key ideas of geometry I want my students to work through during the school is to better understand shapes and their attributes.Having my students be able to name different shapes just by knowing their sides or angles is a huge start. In my field experience class they just started working on this and some kids are having trouble, I never thought as just being able to name different shapes would be that hard for students but this has now proved me wrong. I feel as those for the other key ideas that I would want my students to learn would have to depend on what grade I end up teaching. Are there key ideas that you think are more important than others? Van Hiele Levels and Polygon Properties I think that the power point was very informative. I never thought about students being at different levels to understand a concept. I just thought about d...