Miss. Malatesta's Math Blog

Welcome back to my blog! This week, I will be going over everything of value that I have learned over the past 6 weeks in terms of mathematics in the classroom! Hope these help you in your classrooms. Learning to Solve Problems Various Ways:  Teaching students how to gain confidence in math is important. One way to do this, is to show students a problem, and divide them into groups, in order to solve the question. When done in class, each group was able to come up with a different method to solve the equation, we were then split into groups, where we were able to learn even further ways to solve the problem at hand. Through doing this activity, we were able to challenge our brains to think of the problem in different ways, and see that all these approaches, although they may be different in fact all lead to the same answer, that Maria’s store was the best deal to get cat food for the kitten.              I ap...

Welcome all to my math blog! This week in math, we will be focusing on teaching the future of children, also known as 21 st  century learners. (Reissman, 2017) Students in our classrooms now a days learn in different ways. They were brought up with the use of technology, and no matter what they have handed to them, without instruction they would be able to figure out the app or device faster than any educator. This is something we have to take into account when teaching students. They do not learn the same way we did, because they were brought up so differently. Technology is their era, and we need to know how to make it a part of ours. As I had said before, it is okay to make mistakes, mistakes will allow you to achieve success. If something goes wrong with technology when I am teaching, there are always students willing to run up and help. AGAIN…. They know this stuff best! This is an area they can teach us, do not be afraid to make mistakes, make all the mistakes yo...

Welcome back to my math blog, this week, we will be focusing on creating rich tasks, and all that this entails. So sit back, get comfortable and begin reading! A rich task is something that all students can attempt to do. For instance, showing the class a problem or task where they have to pick one thing that does not belong. When given the picture seen below, all students have the ability, no matter their grade level to find one thing that does not belong. Instantly, students notice the circle, and may choose that, yet they can also pick writing fonts that are different, font colours (Black Vs. White), the different coloured square (Purple Vs. Blue), etc… this activity allows anyone at any level to find something, and explain why it does not belong.                                                                ...