COMING TO KNOW NUMBER
Workshop for K-5 Mathematics
This two-day workshop is intended to help elementary teachers enhance their mathematics teaching by exploring activities that focus on students' development of number and spatial sense in a problem-solving environment. Participants will learn about the important ideas in the elementary mathematics curriculum and how children learn to think mathematically and become excited about and confident in their mathematics learning. Teachers will be introduced to activities that have been developed over the last several years by a team of researchers and extensively tested by elementary teachers in their classrooms.
The workshop approach supports the NCTM Principles and Standards and most state standards. The focus is on mathematics activities that emphasize conceptual development, with sense making as a central goal. Participants will have the opportunity to explore the following:
- Supporting students' development of number and spatial sense
- Developing students' additive, multiplicative, and algebraic reasoning
- Encouraging thinking strategies and mathematical problem solving in students
- Supporting students' development of efficient computation procedures with understanding
- Establishing classroom learning environments that support children's sense making in mathematics
- Ways of questioning that encourage thoughtful responses from students
- Assessing students' thinking
K-5 teachers attend this workshop together as we believe it will give everyone a sense of "where we have been and where we are going" and a general feeling of unity as elementary educators with a mutual goal of helping students make sense of mathematics. The material presented is so rich yet so simple that each grade level teacher will leave with the basis for plenty of extendable activities to use in his/her own classroom.
Workshop materials are simple and, while we do model the use of manipulatives in the workshop, many of the activities presented are engaging mental exercises (that even kindergartners enjoy) that require only black-line masters and an overhead projector.
These school children are learning math by using some of the
manipulatives used in the workshops.
About The Book Coming To Know Number
Coming to Know Number the required text for the K-5 workshop, reflects a fresh and effective approach to number development for mathematics students. In addition to a discussion of instructional strategies, basic facts, problem solving and how students make sense of mathematics, this book includes a rich set of activity pages ready for classroom use. This approach encourages students to construct meaningful methods of computing with an emphasis on thinking in tens. A decade of research with these activities documents the effectiveness of using problem-based activities in helping students develop a strong sense of number and confidence in themselves as mathematics students.(item #05-1001 $24.95)
Schools may fax purchase order to: 800-292-8846
Or contact us by e-mail edenrich@pldi.net
PO Box 267, Washington, Oklahoma 73093