Math Newsletters Now Online

Hamilton County and Math Solutions have just published their latest math newsletters.  Here are the current links:

Math Solutions Online Newsletter:  Click Here

• Articles to note:
• 10 Ways to Help ELLs Succeed in Math
• New books with excerpts from a fraction book and a rubric book
• A ten frames lesson for K-2

Hamilton County Online Newsletter:  Click Here

• Articles to note:
• Try Something New BINGO for integrating new strategies at the end of the year.
• local PD opportunities 

Goals for April

• Continue to work with you on your goals by observing, co-teaching, and planning.
• Work with teams to prepare the School Improvement Plan presentations for the board. 
• Help with accommodations for the OAAs. 
• Help teams write grants to help fund some of our programs next year.

Goals for the Week of 3/15/10

• Attend, participate, and learn from the model ELL lessons being taught at Stewart on Thursday. 
• Continue to work with you on your goals by observing, co-teaching, and planning.

 

Reading Strategies for Parents

Here is an article on reading strategies that parents can use at home.  It is a very detailed article, but user friendly.  The last page has a shortened list of ideas also. 

http://www.paec.org/david/reading/parents.pdf

HCESC Math Matters Newsletter

***Message below copied from Christina Sherman's e-mail on 3/12/10.***

Happy Pi Day!  The latest edition of the HCESC Math Matters Newsletter is now posted. You can access it by following this link. or go to http://www.hcesc.org/ and click on "What's New" in the left-hand column. Then scroll down under the picture and click on "Current Math Newsletter".

We hope you enjoy this HCESC Math Matters Newsletter which includes:

• Pi Day resources
• Mental Number Line (Brain-Based Research)
• Local Homework Help opportunity
• Common Core Standards - Draft released & upcoming meetings
• Lesson Links for Pi
• Handy formula for successful learning in the 21st century
• Teacher, Test Yourself! (Motivation)
• Reflective questions
• Movie Clips in the Mathematics Classroom
• Professional Development opportunities

Do you know of other professional development opportunities that we could share? Please send us an email. We would love to hear your suggestions and/or comments!

We hope you all have a wonderful Pi Day and a wonderful Spring! Best of luck to you and your students with the upcoming tests!

Gale Jorgensen, Dana Mossor & Christina Sherman
Mathematic Consultants
Hamilton County Educational Service Center Center for Instructional Services

Pi Day is Sunday, 3.14

Pi Day is coming up on Sunday in case you want to celebrate this mathematical day in your class!  The links below have resources that you might like to have a look at.  One suggestion is to read the book Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi.  The most fun part, of course, is that you can celebrate by eating "pie."

• http://www.nctm.org/resources/content.aspx?id=2147483830
• The NCTM site has games, web sites, and activities for all ages.

"Pi Unrolled" image from www.ictm.org.  

Happy Pi Day!

Common Core Standards Released

The draft of the Common Core Standards has finally been released.  Here's a link for the draft...

http://www.corestandards.org/

Once you get to the site, click on "View K-12 Standards" in the left-hand column.  Then, you will be able to view the draft of both the literacy and math standards. 

They are accepting public comments until April 2nd. Enjoy!  :)

Goals for the Week of 3/9/10

• Learn more about child study at Glendale by attending some child study meetings on Thursday.
• Continue to work with you on your goals by observing, co-teaching, and planning.

Goals for the Week of 3/1/10

• Attend and gather information at the HCESC math council meeting on Monday.
• This meeting will focus on assessment.
• The common core standards release date has been pushed back to the first week in March (as long as it doesn't change again).
• Continue to work with you on your goals by observing, co-teaching, and planning.

Remember, World Math Day is Tuesday and Wednesday, March 2nd-3rd.  Go to www.worldmathday.com to login and participate.  Let's help beat the world record for number of correct problems answered in one day!

Writing Workshop Classroom Visit

The Writing Workshop classroom observation at Glendale this week went really well!  Mrs. Bowling took a risk by having her students create their own "Noticings Chart" for the very first time while we were there.  The kids did a great job!  It was wonderful for other teachers to have an opportunity to learn from a Princeton Colleague.  Thank you, Mrs. Bowling!

Saving Random Name Picker

If you would like to make a random name picker like the one used for strategies below, click on the link below to see a short video about how to make it and save it to your computer.

Click here to see the video.

Click here for full screen version

  

Click on the button labelled "fruit machine" to see it work. 

What can you use this random name picker for? 

• To randomly pick students to answer questions or for cooperative learning groups.
• Vocabulary words:  Put in your vocabulary words.  Then, have students define the word that shows up.
• To play a game:  Have one student stand with their back to the screen.  Have the other students tell him or her facts until the student can guess the word. 
• For math facts:  Type in one math fact per line.  Have students solve.

Carousel Strategy

The Glendale 1st grade participated in a cooperative learning activity on problem solving.  The carousel strategy was used.  What is the carousel strategy???  It is where the students move around the room in a circle participating in an activity at each location.  Or it is when a piece of work is passed in a circle around a table for students to work collaboratively on. 

In this example, each group made up a word problem.  Then, the groups rotated around the room and solved each word problem.  They continued going around the room until each group answered each question.  At the end, the students gathered on the carpet to look at all the work and make conclusions. 

Goals for the Week of 2/8/10

• Facilitate District ELL Professional Development on Monday.
• Continue to meet with people to teach them new technology tips that I learned at the OH Free Tech Conference.
• Here is a link to my notes from the conference:  http://www.filedropper.com/ohiofreetechnologyconferencenotes2
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• Continue to work with you on your goals by observing, co-teaching, and planning. 

Welcome!

Welcome to my new blog.  The purpose of this blog is to communicate more effectively with each of you!  Rather than sending you a weekly e-mail with my whereabouts and goals, I decided to create this blog.  I can now include much more than just my plans and goals.  I hope to include useful links, quotes, strategy tips, and photos from your classrooms.  The possibilities are endless.  Please let me know if there is anything you would like to see posted here.  I hope you find this blog helpful!