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Description:This workshop will enable participants
to become familiar with tasks that encourage students to understand what
measurement is and why it is necessary in the upper elementary
levels. Participants will consider how elementary students think
about linear measurement, area, and capacity; and study critical ideas in
mathematics education, such as the importance of unitization and iteration
when measuring. Participants will create engaging, standards-based
activities that promote student inquiry into critical issues of measurement
for their final project.
Pre-requisites: This workshop is designed for teachers, curriculum
specialists, professional development specialists, or other school personnel.
Participants are expected to have regular access to computers, and
proficiency with email and current web-browsers.
Objectives: This course will enable participants to:
• become familiar with tasks that encourage students to understand what
measurement is, and why it is necessary;
• gain a better understanding of how elementary students think about linear
measurement, area, and capacity;
• study critical ideas in mathematics education, such as the importance of
unitization and iteration when measuring;
• create engaging, standards-based lesson plans that promote student inquiry
into critical issues of measurement;
• create lessons which use mathematical tools appropriately;
• conduct a student interview; and
• promote a “learning-by-doing” methodology, which is applicable to students
at all ages.
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