Twitter Chats: Where to Start

Are you looking for a way to join those Twitter chats but you are not sure where to start? Are you overwhelmed by all of the posts you see?

Here is a podcast I created to make these chats easier to use with the user-friendly Tweet Chat.

Visual Literacy in Math part 2

To go with my word problem assignment, which is described here  http://stacykoops.blogspot.com/2013/11/visual-literacy-in-math.html I found this rubric that I might use to assess this task. 

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson1123/rubric.pdf

Visual Literacy in math

For a literacy and technology course I am required to create a visual literacy lesson. I feel that teaching in the primary grades affords me the opportunity to use visual modes of learning in reading and language arts. What about math? I often ask my students to draw and write about what they are learning but I do not engage them in a lot of whole body learning during math time.

Our new unit on multiplication and division got me thinking about ways to do this. Already on our first day students were drawing pictures and arrays and using counters for story problems. What else can I do?

I will have a little extra time after Thanksgiving break before I need to move into my next unit. As a culminating project I will have my students work in heterogeneous groups to create a number story. They will need to solve it by acting it out with props or themselves. Their props can be hand made. They can also demonstrate how to solve their story using the Show Me app http://www.showme.com/create.

Students will be assessed on writing a multiplication number story, solving the story correctly with a number model and a visual depiction for solving, and on their creativity.