I am doing the Guided Math book study with several other bloggers. If you haven't started....you can go to http://primaryinspired.blogspot.com/ to read the thoughts on chapter one. Chapter two is being hosted by http://www.3rdgradegridiron.com/
These are my thoughts on chapter two:
I agree with her Foundational Principals of Guided Math. I found the principal "Learning Math is a Social Process" is so on target with how I teach! I strongly believe that children learn more when they are able to discuss and process with their classmates. My students are always involved in interactive structures that allows them to discuss and process with classmates.
As fars a building a classroom that shows math is important.....well I don't think I do such a good job. As Sammons says, we do a great job of making our classrooms literacy rich - but not rich in math. That is a spot I will be working on for the fall. As I think of my room.....I need a great deal more math on the walls.
I loved her ideas of infusing the math into all subjects.....like getting out measurement tools to show exactly how tall a character is - if the story talks about that. That visualization piece is so important in reading....but I never really think about using math to help them visualize!! Maybe that comes naturally to some of you.....but not me :)
The emphasis on organization is a point that I worry about. No matter how organized I am the first day of school.....it falls apart within a month or so. This will be the year that I work harder on staying organized! If anyone has any suggestions...I am open!! Please post and let me know what works for you!
I have a question for everyone.....How do you feel about the Common Core Standards? Have you started using them? Do you feel Guided Math will help you better implement the CCS?
I am including another Quiz, Quiz Trade for you! If you don't know how to play it see my earlier post that describes it. This one is for math - the "Social" part of math :) Just click the link below!!
Linda
Hey Linda,
ReplyDeleteI can admit that teaching math is not my strong suit. I am hoping that following this book study will show me a new way to teach math to my firsties. My team and I have been looking at the CCS and have concluded that the units prepared by our state (GA) are geared to be introduced by the teacher, and then have students use manipulatives to guide their learning. I haven't received my Guided Math book yet, but this sounds like what all you wonderful ladies are talking about.
I wonder if I could implement math BUILD boxes with guided math? Here's the link:http://adventures-inteaching.blogspot.com/2011/10/building-math-workshop.html
Please let me know what you think.
Caitlyn
http://firstiesin204.blogspot.com/
I think your BUILD math will work perfect! Since they recommend stations during small group your BUILD units would be super for that! I like how organized it is :) I would love to see how GA has set up your units......we use Investigations Math and it doesn't hit most of the CCS so we are looking into a new series....but that will take a year! So this coming year is going to be interesting!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking up, Linda!!! My county is just now starting to have training/classes on the Common Core, so I'm not 100% comfortable with them yet. But I'm expecting a fairly easy transition once they're fully implemented. :)
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Dana
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