To get their feed back, I went to their School Gaggle accounts and started a blog. I asked two questions: the first is:
"I am interested in knowing what students would enjoy doing in math. Please provide your comments".
Since I am the only teacher at my school with a student blog, I had no one to offer advice.
But, my students have given me what I was looking for, and that is 'What do they think is important'.
The downside is that I missed my suspense for the Master's Course, but I feel that what I did is relevant and a real life application of technology.
Here are a few replies: (please excuse the spelling)
I would enjoy doing angles and adding fractions. I like math because Math helps you with money and shopping. Math is in everything you do like running miles, weghing things and building things.
i sorta like math. But its sometimes hard. I like working on the computer and what we are working on now!
In math I like the games on the computer that we play . I don't really like all the work that we have to do tho . I like the subject (GCF) we are working on now . It is really easy .
Well math has always been my favorite subject. So learning more stuff just makes it better. sometimes some things are kinda hard. But knowing I have a teacher who can explain it very well makes it better. I also love the computer math games you allow us to play. Those are my favorite(:
After reading student's blog replies, I feel better about what I have been doing in class and decided to combine my teaching of the TI-84 Calculator with blogging. I did this with the following question.
The second question is:
Suppose your calculator will not allow you to enter three numbers into the GCD function. How could you still use your calculator to find the GCF of the three following numbers: 4,896; 2,364; and 656? EXPLAIN your strategy and why it works.
Students loved this question because they were able to blog their ideas and develop the best way to explain their strategy.
Here are a few replies: (please excuse the spelling)
well to being with it would be hard beacuse u can not do 3 numbver on the computer so i woukld just do it on papper and have 3 cirlces and use the rules for the gcf and go with that and try to find my answerWell I would first multiply any possible ways to get the GCD. Then I would put the to numbers in the caculator and use the way that mr. Garret showed us in class. After finding the GCDs I would add the other number to the GCD on the caculator and press enter and then GCDs should pop up.
The following is one of my favorite replies.
The first thing I would do is take the two biggest numbers and find the GCF then with the GCF of those two numbers , I would take the last number left and with find the GCF of all of the numbers .
i sorta like math. But its sometimes hard. I like working on the computer and what we are working on now!
In math I like the games on the computer that we play . I don't really like all the work that we have to do tho . I like the subject (GCF) we are working on now . It is really easy .
Well math has always been my favorite subject. So learning more stuff just makes it better. sometimes some things are kinda hard. But knowing I have a teacher who can explain it very well makes it better. I also love the computer math games you allow us to play. Those are my favorite(:
After reading student's blog replies, I feel better about what I have been doing in class and decided to combine my teaching of the TI-84 Calculator with blogging. I did this with the following question.
The second question is:
Suppose your calculator will not allow you to enter three numbers into the GCD function. How could you still use your calculator to find the GCF of the three following numbers: 4,896; 2,364; and 656? EXPLAIN your strategy and why it works.
Students loved this question because they were able to blog their ideas and develop the best way to explain their strategy.
Here are a few replies: (please excuse the spelling)
well to being with it would be hard beacuse u can not do 3 numbver on the computer so i woukld just do it on papper and have 3 cirlces and use the rules for the gcf and go with that and try to find my answerWell I would first multiply any possible ways to get the GCD. Then I would put the to numbers in the caculator and use the way that mr. Garret showed us in class. After finding the GCDs I would add the other number to the GCD on the caculator and press enter and then GCDs should pop up.
The following is one of my favorite replies.
The first thing I would do is take the two biggest numbers and find the GCF then with the GCF of those two numbers , I would take the last number left and with find the GCF of all of the numbers .
It looks like you came up with a great way to incorporate your blog into your teaching, PLUS...the students were able to figure something out on their own! A couple questions: Did you have students do this IN class, or for homework? Was it mandatory that they participate? Which grade(s) do you teach?
ReplyDelete