Week 3: Number & Operations Strand

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Number and Operations Literature:

  1. Emeka’s Gift
  2. Five Little Monkeys
  3. The M&M’s Counting Book
  4. Each Orange Had 8 Slices
  5. It’s Hard to Be Five
  6. Ten Apples Up On Top!
  7. Ten Black Dots
  8. Wee Sing and Learn 123
NCTM Number and Operations
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1. Communication Items

  • Place your Summary of Research assignment in your folder

2. Discussion of Burns, Chapters 4 and 5

  • A Capful of Fractions
  • Math Under Pressure: with a partner, come up with two stressful “mathematical situations” you can recall experiencing as an adult.

3. Numbers and Operations Strand (NCTM Standards)

  • Counting, comparing, place value, ordinal and cardinal numbers, connecting number words, numerals, quantities, rational numbers, addition and subtraction, computation tools
  • Samples of Numbers and Operations manipulatives and visual aids (one to one correspondence manipulatives, numeral/quantity/word visuals, games, counting boxes/trays, books, subitizing ideas)

4. Numbers and Operations Activity Centers

  • Fraction Cards – investigate fractional formulas
  • Stringing Place Value – demonstrate understanding of place value from thousands to thousandths
  • Dominoes – develop a list of number sense concepts you can address by using dominoes
  • Vocabulary test – what do you remember??
  • Playing cards – various number sense concepts

5. Y.C. – Chapters 2 and 4

  • Principles in Teaching Math…
  • Numbers and Operations

6. Journal

Add the following numbers: 11, 2, 9, 23, 8. Explain in words the step-by-step procedure you used to arrive at your answer.  Compare your method with three other people in the class.  What new computation strategies did you learn?  What does this infer about “learning styles”? (6pts)

7. Computers in Mathematics

  • Investigating mathematics computer programs – Building Blocks