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Nick Romero's List: Math Ideas
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It is where Mr.K gives us these mini-tests that give off the testing atmosphere as they are worth marks but instead of handing it in alone, you are put in random groups. After working on the test alone to see what you can do and know on your own you're given about 15 minutes to work it out with your group members to hand in one paper with all the correct answers. You engage in an educational conversation where each person contributes what they have to say because everyone wants their mark. And that is why I closed with the saying.
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Promising Idea
Elena Silva, senior policy analyst at the Washington think tank Education Sector, provided the most recent independent assessment of the 21st-century skills craze. Her paper "Measuring Skills for the 21st Century" acknowledges the doubts, but she concludes that the idea has promise:
The notion that basic and advanced skills are best learned together is one of the major findings of a recent report on mathematics education, funded and released by the U.S. Department of Education. The best learning happens, the report asserts, when students learn basic content and processes, such as the rules and procedures of arithmetic, at the same time that they learn how to think and solve problems.
The mathematics report also concluded that there is no set age or developmental stage when children are ready to gain complex thinking skills. This is in sharp contrast to the previously held notion that very young children are concrete and simplistic thinkers who cannot think abstractly or gain deep understanding of concepts. Thus, while there are building blocks of knowledge -- students must master addition and subtraction before they multiply or divide -- the idea that students should be taught facts and simple procedures before they get to problem-solving or critical thinking no longer makes sense. "The common idea that we can teach thinking without a solid foundation of knowledge must be abandoned. So must the idea that we can teach knowledge without engaging students in thinking. Knowledge and thinking must be intimately joined," says Lauren Resnick, a professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburgh and a leading expert on cognitive science.
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Real Math: Eeva Reeder on Projects and Assessment
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Ideas from Web 2.0:New Tools, New SchoolsI need a 21st century collaboration rubric - check ribicon and plpNot all live in a web 2.0 world. What about those THS students w/o internet accessuse unique tags in delicious (ie romeromath) to point classes to certain web resourceselgg.org for eportfoliosmake a wiki for class notesscribes - students take notes for each class (or concept) on a blog./ Can I do this through moodle wiki?thinkquest (p96)Project ideasDeveloping expoert voices for MS- choose concept, take picture, create a problem with pic and concept on voicethread. i.e. pic of FB field, find area and perimeter in different units or adding and subtracting integers for field positionAfter MT - survey what is most difficult, make a mathcast on concept (explaining it and solving a couple of problems)Quizlet - students input questions and I can aggregate them. for integers have easy (-10 to 10), medium (-30 to 30) and hard (-100 to 100) for adding and subtracting
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might be a good site to share with Mark for a way to integreat 12st century skills
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What is Authentic Assessment?
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Mr. Olson's 7th grade Math WikiWelcome to our wiki.each student has a wiki that covers vocab, etc.
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In this webquest, you will look at many different areas of math found in the NCAA basketball tournament. You will use the NCAA bracket to look at all the teams participating in the tournament. The world of math will come alive as you find fractions, decimals, and percents; probability statistics; make predictions; and look for patterns.
By the end of this webquest, you will be able to relate a variety of math facts to the NCAA tournament and explain the importance of Mathematics in basketball.
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<span> A pizza family reunion</span>
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