My Journey through Education

Textbook 1. Explain what it means to measure something. Does your explanation  work equally well for length, area, weight, volume, and time? To measure something means.... to see how big or small something is by using tools such as a tape measure, measuring cup, etc. I feel as though the way I explained it only shows the length and area. To measure time you would need a clock or to count how many seconds. The volume you could measure by putting certain items in a container and seeing how many fit. And to measure weight you would use some type of scale 3. Four reasons were offered for using nonstandard units  instead of stand units in instructional activities . Which of these seem most important to you, and why? I think the most important is "Nonstandard units make it easier to focus directly on the attribute being measured." I think this is the most important because it students need to understand what it means to measure something before the get confused with all the ...

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 ...