MAKING MATH MEANINGFUL

Problems with traditional math Instruction:

  • Students memorize algorithms and only have an instrumental understanding. Instrumental understanding is having a mathematical rule and being able to use and manipulate it. Relational understanding is having a mathematical rule, knowing how to use it, and knowing why it works.

  • Math is typically assessed in terms of achievement, meaning a student’s ability to perform a set of increasingly sophisticated computations or word problems. However, math is made up of sub skills, and it may be a deficiency in just one of these sub skills that makes the student “underperform”.

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Teach Math through strategies, not algorithms

Visualization is the key to understanding. Learn how to visualize mathematical concepts in order to perform better on all math assessments.

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Increase Number sense

Learn simple techniques to understand the base ten system and part to whole relationships.

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Problem Solve

Explore number relations and multiple means of problems solving. The focus is on the language of math, not the answer.

 https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/54980/why-teachers-want-math-with-more-human-ties