This week I decided to research and practice multiplication. It was one of the subjects in math that challenged me most when I was young. My sons are both very good at math and were delighted to beat me doing timed worksheets. My skills are definitely rusty and their understanding of the concept of multiplication is far better than mine. Future goals...be quicker at multiplication so that I can win a math race! Speaking of goals, another was to find effective ways to teach students and what strategies I could try using when they started to become frustrated.
Many sources indicated to start small and build concepts first rather than focusing on doing multiplication tables in order.
One interesting way of teaching multiplication is by using arrays to visualize. Below is an example that gives students a way to use paint to make learning about multiplication more fun.
https://missgiraffesclass.blogspot.com/
Math Joke of the week:
Q: Teacher: Why are you doing your multiplication on the floor?
A: Student: You told me not to use tables.
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ReplyDeleteSophia, this worksheet immediately caught my eye. I love to think of creative ideas to help children learn mathematics. Fractions was also a very complex topic for me in grade school as well. So i love the idea of using elements of paint in the form of visual arrays to help represent fractions. I never realized how many strategies and fun elements can be incorporated to help students understand the topic of fractions. I defiantly believe that If I had some of these strategies and tools that I would not have struggled with math as much. In teaching the goal is to give your students the right tools to develop their thinking and apply in their world. I think this is a great way to help students learn fractions . Kudos to you Sophia! Great Work!
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