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Lesson Plan Ideas For Math With Videos and Drama
Math can often be seen as being a little… staid. Very necessary, of course, but firmly grounded in the world of fact. It seems as if creativity and eccentricity has no place in a lesson plan for math. You can’t get creative with facts like 2 + 2 = 4 or with feet and inches. Or can you?
One teacher, Ms Kay Toliver, who originally worked in Primary School 72 in East Harlem, New York, has managed to change all that, and her ideas are beginning to spread to other educators, and she has won a Presidential Award for her creative ideas. A math lesson plan, for Ms Toliver, is likely to include songs, costume and drama – and her pupils absolutely love it. “I just try to figure out how I can make this information interesting enough,” she says, explaining why she has a tendency to sing some of her lessons or her use of eccentric costumes and props.
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How to Teach Classroom Mathematics
Some years ago, I got appointment as a Head of Pre-Entry Science Course Department at the Technical University in Balgravia. The Department enrolled the best students from different high school of the country. The objective of the Department was to find students’ gaps in their knowledge of science subjects and upgrade them to university standards. It was pleasure to work in an exotic country on such challenging issues and for a such noble goal.
Once, when I passed by a classroom where mathematics was being taught by a colleague, I heard the voice of the students counting: 4 597, 4 598, 4 599…At that time, I did not pay much attention to it. But after three days, from behind the doors of the same classroom, I heard: 13 127, 13 128, 13 129…
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Multimedia Lesson Plans For Mathematics
Many forms of media can be used in math lesson plans placing the medium in the role of both instructor and as a tool used by the “live” instructor. This article touches on only a few but may give you some ideas for similar ways to do this in your classroom. One educator who developed and employed multimedia into math lessons found that:
- mathematical vocabulary of the students increased (and they made a more conscious effort to USE the correct terminology)
- students asked more questions
- response quality improved
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