Math, 2010-2011-
Math in our classroom is pretty much hands-on.
Math Workshop:
Math Workshop is new in room 202 this year. Students work in workstations on Wednesdays and Thursdays, two rotations each day for 20-25 minutes each. The stations consist of the teacher station, games/manipulatives, computer (which incorporates extra time on NCS Math), and and practice, which also incorporates brain teasers/mind benders. Students work on projects throughout the week that embrace the New Generation Sunshine State Standards, whether it is a project like preparing for a camping trip, deciding what to purchase for Thanksgiving dinner by looking at flyers from the grocery store, or starting their own restaurants.
Math Solve-Its:
Math Solve-Its are completed every morning in a binder that holds daily science problems as well. This is similar to Glue It and Do It, but different because all the problems for the week are on the same page and are not cut out. Students add their own notebook paper to the journal to work out the daily problems.
Students are graded with this rubric. The Math Investigations journal is more geared to daily note-taking and the hands-on investigations completed in our classroom. For Daily Data, students must complete a 3-2-1 journal entry for the data- 3 observations, 2 inferences and 1 variable.
Resources:
Resources for teachers are included at the resources website.
Click above to go to Ms. Jasztal's Visiting Florida math webquest.
Math Vocabulary-
Math Word Song [Podcast recorded by Ms. Jasztal using Audacity]
The Math Word Song is a math vocabulary song for our class.
Area, perimeter, radius, diameter
Trapezoid, rhombus, parallel, perpendicular
Pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, nonagon, decagon, dodecagon
Mode and median and mean and range
Probability and data is off the chain
Say these words and learn them fast
Jaszlab is out to make math a blast
Area is length times width and width times length
If you have a figure, one side 5 and the other 5, 5 times 5 is 25
5 times 5 is 25, 5 times 5 is 25!
Perimeter is around the rim, add up the sides
Don’t confuse it with area if you want to be wise
If all the sides of a square are 3
3 plus 3 plus 3 plus 3 is 12
Or you can multiply it, 3 times 4 is 12!
Sometimes there are circles, On those circles are lines
There’s lines that go completely across
And those that go half
The radius is half and the diameter’s whole
Radius half, diameter whole
Radius half, diameter whole
The trapezoid is like a trap
Like a pyramid without its top
The rhombus is a square on a tilt
But the sides’ length is still the same,
The sides’ length is still the same.
Parallel, parallel, wherefore are thou, parallel
All going in the same direction, never making intersection
Railroad tracks going straight on and on,
To infinity and beyond, to infinity and beyond
Perpendicular, perpendicular, like crossing roads
All on 90-degree angles, we all know
There are figures with sides and all have names
Of course you have triangles and squares, but those are lame
Pentagons have five sides, hexagons have six
Heptagons have seven, octagons have eight
Let’s repeat!
Pentagons have five sides, hexagons have six
Heptagons have seven, octagons have eight!
Which has five? The pentagon!
Which has six? The hexagon!
Which has seven? The heptagon!
Which has eight? The octagon!
Nonagon, nonagon, that sounds odd, but those have nine
Decagons have ten, but then there’s the strangest one
Twelve sided figures are called dodecagons
Nonagon, decagon, dodecagon- like a tongue twister all in itself
Like a tongue twister all in itself
Mode and median and mean and range
MOOOOOOOOst often, that’s the mode
MOOOOOOOOst often, that’s the m-o-o-o-o-de
Median, think of a road, go to the lines
Roads have their center and numbers do too
Mean is the average- add, count, divide
Mean is the average- add, count, divide
Range is high to low and low to high
Take the highest and subtract it wise.
Area, perimeter, radius, diameter
Trapezoid, rhombus, parallel, perpendicular
Pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, nonagon, decagon, dodecagon
Mode and median and mean and range
Probability and data is off the chain
Say these words and learn them fast
Jaszlab is out to make math a blast
Jaszlab is out to make math a blast
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