This blog was designed under the direction of my Elementary Mathematics Methods course at the University of Texas at Austin. It takes you through my Math life journey and who I am and will be as a special education teacher. It is intended for my professor, my cohort Frs, and whoever else might want want to know just who I am. Saturday, October 16, 2010.

Invented math strategies are a particular area of interest to me. Overall, I look forward to eliciting more of these personal strategies from my students during math time.

Student O draws three pockets and puts two pennies in each pocket. After distributing the pennies in the pockets, she counts the total number of pennies. Friday, October 1, 2010. Why not apply it to math? Wednesday, September 15, 2010.

Math Identity Blog Entry 4 - Invented Math Strategies. In the problem-solving interview, my student N used a mix of counting strategies and direct modeling strategies to solve the problems. If she puts 10 toys into each bag, how many bags of toys will she be able to make? Friday, October 1, 2010. Wednesday, September 22, 2010.

Monday, October 18, 2010. Blog 4 - Invented Strategies. He loses 4 of them. To solve the problem, the student could have separated the tens and ones into 2 tens and 1 ones.

Monday, October 18, 2010. Blog Entry 4- Invented Math Strategies. How many pennies does he have now? The student was familiar with the standard form of how we expect children to set up a subtraction problem. For the actual process of finding an answer she used direct modeling with the cubes and counted to find the answer needed. This was just one of several strategies she could have used to solve the problem. Wednesday, September 29, 2010.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010. How do children develop their own strategies? Saturday, October 2, 2010. What was the specific mathematical content being taught? This week I taught them a lesson on how to use a specific method for word problems. After I modeled filling out this special I had them to read a word problem and underline any information that they thought would be important. After that, we began to fill out the Math Problem Solving Guide. Any specific talk moves being used? .

Monday, October 18, 2010. Friday, October 1, 2010.

Thanks for dropping by Jena Talks Math! Take a look around and grab the RSS feed. The student I interviewed at Houston Elementary had a very interesting way of solving a division problem that I read to her. The problem asked if there were 20 stickers distributed to 4 friends, how many stickers would each friend get? Mdash; 1 Comment. First Impressions at a New School.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010. Friday, October 1, 2010. This week has been a little out of the ordinary in my placement. Illnesses and meetings have caused these two days to go by fast. However, I think there are two types of math. Now, even though these questions a.