Miss Younger's Math Musings
I currently teach grade 4 and have for the past four school years. When looking at my planning process in relation to my key words I have found some areas of strength and a few areas of weakness. Doing this activity helped me to highlight some focus areas for next year. I aim for a…
I have attached my grade 4 introduction to division unit. With all of my math units I like to focus on conceptual understanding first then move to the applications so my units are fairly slow paced in the beginning then pick up as we move along. I find that my students typically respond well to…
I have used social media for teaching ideas for a long time. At the beginning of my career I was focused on making everything Pinterest or Instagram perfect, forgetting that those were stills from half a second in the life of a classroom. I thought I needed to have the classroom that looked like the…
I chose to create my Pinterest board focusing on number sense. Number sense routines are something I do daily with my students and that provide a lot of opportunity for students who may not normally engage in mathematical discussions to engage. My goal when choosing number sense activities is to pick Low Threshold High Ceiling…
Overall Scratch is something that I want to use in my classroom after reviewing all of the information. Looking at scratch is really a great introduction to coding the block-based coding language is very visual it’s drag and drop in the scratch interface so that students don’t need to have a lot of background in…
specific training in coding. My own coding education was limited to a little bit of HTML in grade 9 information technology and first year computer science using C++ which proved to be more of an exercise in frustration then actually learning to code. In speaking with professional software developers and software engineers in my social…
While I enjoyed exploring all of the options and am looking forward to trying the Lego Maze when we return from spring break I chose to write about an activity that I use in my classroom. We regularly use our coding cards to code partners so one student is the “coder” and the other is…
