When I first started this semester, I was able to observe the students in
my placement work on several basic skills (such addition, subtraction, and
mult...
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Math Methods Blog Roll
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*How do children develop their own strategies?* I have come to believe that children develop their own strategies. Sometimes, it happens as a result of conf...
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Upon working with a student in my math group this past week, I discovered a very interesting strategy of solving computation problems that I have not yet s...15 years ago
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*Intro* As was stated in the Van de Wall text, students do not spontaneously invent wonderful computational methods while the teacher sits back and w...
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Invented math strategies are a particular area of interest to me. Although I don’t particularly like the term “invented” (I lean towards “personal”), I do ...15 years ago
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Looking back at my problem solving interview many things become clear. First and foremost, my student used many different methods to solve all the problems...
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In the problem-solving interview, my student N used a mix of counting strategies and direct modeling strategies to solve the problems. I particularly remem...
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In my problem solving interview at Houston Elementary, my student used direct modeling and traditional algorithms for most of the problems I asked her, but...
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DISCLAIMER: This is my second time to try this, because my computer decided to lock up before I could write the last few steps of my second strategy. So, ...15 years ago
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Blog 4 invented strategies I have not been able to really think of beside some mental computation going on in my student teaching. I have seen one student ...15 years ago
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Many of my students' go-to strategies are on the lower level of different types of problem solving. This is not to say that my students' strategies are le...15 years ago
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My student at Houston Elementary used several strategies when attempting to solve math problems. She set up the problems originally using the...15 years ago
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The student I interviewed at Houston Elementary had a very interesting way of solving a division problem that I read to her. The problem asked if there wer...15 years ago
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My student at Houston Elementary tended to use a direct model approach to almost all of the problems. This really worked for her in solving problems, howe...
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In observing students engaged in mathematical thinking, both during the math interview and during the math lessons I teach at my school, I have been able...
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Throughout our problem solving interview, we were to let the students solve the problems the way they wanted to. For someone like me, who ...
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Problem being examined: Join Change Unknown: *student name finds 12 rocks on the playground. Everyone comes and wants to play with his rocks. How many more...
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Blog Roll looking good
So, as students are putting together their first entries, their Math Stories, this blog roll on the right is looking pretty nice! Check out all the great math stories by clicking and reading!
Monday, August 23, 2010
Welcome
Hello. How's it going?
My name is Teddy Chao. I'm a mathematics educator.
Welcome to my new blog all about mathematics teaching. I'm going to call it Teaching Is It Yo.
I started my teaching career at I.S. 318 in Brooklyn, New York. I taught 7th and 8th-grade math, as well as ran after-school digital filmmaking and web design classes. That was back in 2003, and I had my middle school students using Xanga to write about their lives.
Through this blog, I hope to share and explore my own ideas about what it means to be a math teacher. I also hope to get deep into my own teacher and teacher educator identity. What does it mean to me personally to work with math teachers? Why do I do it? Why is it important? And why math?
This blog also serves as a sort-of "hub" for my students in the Elementary Mathematics Methods course at The University of Texas at Austin. We will be working on a project together to explore our own mathematics identities. I have to laugh at the fact that I'm essentially doing the same project with undergraduate students that I did with my middle school students 8 years ago.
Stay tuned.
Teddy
My name is Teddy Chao. I'm a mathematics educator.
Welcome to my new blog all about mathematics teaching. I'm going to call it Teaching Is It Yo.
I started my teaching career at I.S. 318 in Brooklyn, New York. I taught 7th and 8th-grade math, as well as ran after-school digital filmmaking and web design classes. That was back in 2003, and I had my middle school students using Xanga to write about their lives.
Through this blog, I hope to share and explore my own ideas about what it means to be a math teacher. I also hope to get deep into my own teacher and teacher educator identity. What does it mean to me personally to work with math teachers? Why do I do it? Why is it important? And why math?
This blog also serves as a sort-of "hub" for my students in the Elementary Mathematics Methods course at The University of Texas at Austin. We will be working on a project together to explore our own mathematics identities. I have to laugh at the fact that I'm essentially doing the same project with undergraduate students that I did with my middle school students 8 years ago.
Stay tuned.
Teddy
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