Problem solving strategies with examples of how they work.
Sarah Barrell's List: M405
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Mar 03, 12
This website presents some strategies that should be explicitly taught to students in order for them to approach problem solving activities effectively. There is a definition and example for each strategy. Exposing students to the different types of problem solving strategies, gives them the ammunition to approach problem-solving activities effectively. It is important to explicitly teach these problem solving strategies as skills. Diezmann (2002) highlights the importance of explicitly teaching the skills of the problem solving strategy in order for the students to gain the best possible outcome when problem solving.
The working mathematically outcome as stated in Board of Studies (BOS) New South Wales (NSW) mathematics K-6 syllabus (2006) incorporates the use of appropriate strategies by students. When applying strategies students will be assessed on: selecting the most appropriate strategy, how effectively they use the chosen strategy and, the range of strategies they can employ. Therefore this website would be a great lesson resource in order to explicitly teach the different problem solving strategies and the skills in which students require. -
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Mar 12, 12
Students have to understand each different math opperation in order to understand what the question is asking. The teacher utalises "pinch cards" in order to assess students individual understanding within a whole class activity. Teacher questions students about their choice of opperation as a justification.
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Mar 17, 12
A page provided by the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics. Links to lots of lesson ideas and reosurces.
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Mar 18, 12
This section of the "Count Me In Too" website provides multiple activities for student to explore and work on their mathematical concepts and strategies. Five frames, dominos and arrays are some of the math concepts provided for through the interactive activities. These activities help promote mathematical thinking and build the basis for problem solving strategies.
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provides a basis for designing purposeful learning experiences
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Click on these links to load interactive activities.
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Mar 18, 12
Numerous amount of interactive math games that can be displayed on the interactive whiteboard to the whole class or accessed by individual students during a computer session. There is a wide variety of games to choose from to enhance the lesson you are teaching. Not only are the games interactive and engaging, the characters will be well known by students who watch ABC kids
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Mar 19, 12
Dictionary of math terms. Valuable resource for students as well as teachers who need to brush up on their metalanguage. The page is aesthetically pleasing and set out in an easy to read format.
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Mar 20, 12
Math skill practice that has been tailored to the 2010 Australian national curriculum. Activities are sorted into year levels which include kindergarten through to year 6. These skill building activities are great inspiration for lessons. Activities are also interactive and could be used in conjunction with the IWB.
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providing comprehensive coverage of maths concepts and applications
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aligned to the 2010 Australian Curriculum
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Mar 22, 12
A reading on the importance and relevence of teaching Problem solving to children. Valuable resource when developing any math unit in consideration with the working mathematically outcomes in the BOS NSW mathematics syllabus (2006).
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Mar 19, 12
The bookmark is for the entire site, not just the introduction page. Metalanguage is hyper-linked to a glossary for students to refer to in an efficient way. The activities provide students with immediate feedback through the automated marking function. The website is best suited to S2-S3 classes as it asks students to compare and describe three dimensional shapes, an outcome from the NSW BOS, 2006 Syllabus (p, 23).
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Mar 19, 12
This is a great lesson idea to encourage individual inquiry and independent learning. It could also be a great way to start a math unit by finding out what your students know and want to know. The example to the side is very funny and creative. This exersize can be integrated with English. Students can write different text types, such as a report, with the information they have found through the interview.
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Can give students a suggestion to organise what they know and want to know into a KWL chart instead of the flow chart. KWL chart appears more organised and may be a better strategy for some students.
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These are great ideas! It may be valuable to provide students with a few options of the way they would like to present their work. Be sure to select different presentation strategies that cater to the different individuals within the group so as to optimise inclusivity.
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Mar 20, 12
A great interactive website that uses the Geoboard structure as part of the aim of this game. Students need to build different sized rectangles to make a "ship". This activity uses the Cyberchase television program that is aired on ABC kids and based around math concepts and problem solving.
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Mar 20, 12
There are lots of different computer resources on this computer that can be used by students and teachers. teachers can implement these into their geometry lesson. Teacher may provide this website to students as a "fast finishers" activity. You will need to trial these if you wanted to use them on the interactive whiteboard as some elements may not respond.
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Mar 20, 12
I did this lesson with my year 4/5 class last proffessional placement. The end results were amazing. The lesson was effective in helping students classify geometric and organic shapes. The lesson also satisfied NSW BOS (2006) outcome SGS2.2a: manipulating and identifying two-dimensional shapes (p 23). Below you will find the completed work of my students from this activity.
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finding the geometric shapes that make up animal faces and bodies.
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Mar 21, 12
This is a photo of students' work after they had engaged with the abstract animals lesson and key concepts on geometric shape. The dingo in the top right hand corner of the picture aligns perfectly with the lesson objective and explicit criteria for the lesson.
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Mar 22, 12
"Geometry is grasping space" (as cited in Gould, 2003, p 4). Literally. For a child to completely comprehend space and shape they must explore it through playing, experimenting and physically manipulating the world in which they live (Gould, 2003). Playing and physically manipulating shapes and tessellation patterns through origami addresses this aspect directly.
Origami can develop students' geometric thinking by showing them "how shapes fit together to form larger shapes and how larger shapes can be made of smaller shapes" (Van de Walle, p 407). By constructing and deconstructing shapes children build on their spatial sense: the way objects fit together, and the relationships between objects (Van de Walle, p 400).
Implementing this lesson, within a stage two classroom, provides students with the opportunity to construct, deconstruct, compare and describe two-dimensional shapes that three-dimensional shapes are constructed from. By providing these opportunities through the medium of origami the NSW BOS (2006) outcome SGS2.1 (p 23) will be addressed.-
Models are usually three dimensional
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each piece of art is a geometric figure
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Mar 18, 12
This website provides some valuable tips about teaching fractions. The use of concrete materials (described as manipulatives) throughout the primary school years is supported by this article. The article also suggests asessing students conceptual understanding through the use of concrete materials. This website also provides activities to help students with their understanding of fractions.
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Children must adopt new rules for fractions that often conflict with well-established ideas about whole numbers
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children need to coordinate the inverse relationship between the size of the denominator and the size of the fraction.
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Mar 18, 12
Multiple resources for use on the interactive whiteboard. The activities are useful when providing a transition between the use of concrete materials and being able to do mental arithmatic. Sticky notes have been posted next to resources that could be used in the classroom.
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"Fraction Strip". this resource can be used on the interactive whiteboard to aid the teachers explanation of equivilent fractions. This visual representation is similar to the cuisenaire rods, a concrete material. This could be a great for the transition between concrete and abstract visualisation.
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Mar 19, 12
Great video of a performance by classroom students. They have incorporated the ENglish, CAPA and mathematics KLAs into the one lesson. Fractions and number knowledge and skills are presented by the students. This activity can be used as an assessment strategy at the end of a FD unit
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Mar 19, 12
Lesson resources and student resources for fractions and decimals. Interactive website with lots of skill works games
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Mar 20, 12
Online calculator that converts fractions into decimals. Could be useful when marking student work by loading this web page onto the IWB and asking the students (one at a time) to enter their answer into the converter. They can check their answers this way instead of from BOB (back of book) or the teacher.
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