Making Math Relevant For Our Students

Making Math Relevant For Our Students

Friday, April 25, 2014

Three-Part Math Lesson Vs. Traditional Math Lesson

Traditional Math Lesson:

•Teacher directed
•Text books
•Teachers centered with teachers relaying their learning with teacher talk
•Concepts taught in isolation
• Only one way to reach the answer is taught
•Paper pencil tasks
•Students work as individuals
•Rote learning through drill and memorization

Three-Part Math Lesson:

•Hands-on activities
•Relevant application and connections to real life
•Students work in small groups to complete tasks
•Student talk
•Students can problem solve and discuss solutions and ways to solve, showing their thinking
•Teacher is facilitator
•Open-ended

Commonalities Between Both Lessons:

•Question and answer
•Student practice
•Whole class instruction
•Mathematical language
•Students learn symbols and facts (i.e., addition and subtraction signs etc)



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