Willoughby, S, S. (February 1997. Funtions from kindergarten through Sixth Grade. Teaching in Middle School, .pp. 197-201.
My article talked about the way students can interpret funtions as inputs into a machine and getting something out of it and how to solve problems such what do I have to put into a machine that when I add 7 to it and then multiply that quantity by 6, that I end up with a given specified number. It went through thte various grades and how each grade thought about it a little differently and how the thinking evolved as the grade level increased.
I think this is important to relate things like funtions to applications that might be easier for the kisd to comprehend and to understand. A funtion is like a machine that when you give it an input it will give yuou a specified output. This is useful for children in teaching them what a funtion is.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
How Does Your Doughnut Measure up?
I read the Article entitled How Does Your Doughnut Measure up
Bibliography
Paula Maida Michael Maida, Natrional Council of Teaching Mathematics: Mathematics Teaching in middle school. Vol 11. NO. 5 How does your Doughnut Measure up? December 2005/January 2006.
The main ideas of this article is to communicate that math has real life practical applications to every day things. They showed this by going into a class room and having the kids calcule the area, volume and surface area of a doughnut. They asked the students to first find the diameter of the inner and outer circles of the doughnut measuring the height and so forth. Then they asked about accuracy whether there calculations were an over or under estimate of the actual doghnut dimensions. this gave the kids a practicul real life aplication of math with every day things such as doughnuts.
I think it is very important for math to have real life practical applications for sudents and especailly young students so that is is not just a boring subject that they are being forced to learn. It is important to make math interesting for the learner. The children in this class room were able to learn a lot about math while they were having fun with douhnuts. This way math becomes more real to them and not this abstract idea and concept they have to put up with. Math you can eat! Thats my kind of math! (reading this article actually made me hungry for a douhnut!)
Bibliography
Paula Maida Michael Maida, Natrional Council of Teaching Mathematics: Mathematics Teaching in middle school. Vol 11. NO. 5 How does your Doughnut Measure up? December 2005/January 2006.
The main ideas of this article is to communicate that math has real life practical applications to every day things. They showed this by going into a class room and having the kids calcule the area, volume and surface area of a doughnut. They asked the students to first find the diameter of the inner and outer circles of the doughnut measuring the height and so forth. Then they asked about accuracy whether there calculations were an over or under estimate of the actual doghnut dimensions. this gave the kids a practicul real life aplication of math with every day things such as doughnuts.
I think it is very important for math to have real life practical applications for sudents and especailly young students so that is is not just a boring subject that they are being forced to learn. It is important to make math interesting for the learner. The children in this class room were able to learn a lot about math while they were having fun with douhnuts. This way math becomes more real to them and not this abstract idea and concept they have to put up with. Math you can eat! Thats my kind of math! (reading this article actually made me hungry for a douhnut!)
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