{"id":3676,"date":"2012-08-15T16:09:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T20:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/?p=3676"},"modified":"2012-08-15T16:09:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T20:09:22","slug":"the-real-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/2012\/08\/15\/the-real-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today during Math Workshop, we talked, for the second day, about how to use drawings to help us solve math problems. We practiced a story problem together on the dry erase board.<\/p>\n

“Kynden went to the fair and rode on 7 rides,” I said. Aidan helped by drawing seven circles on the board.<\/p>\n

Then I said, “Later, Kynden rode 4 more rides. How many rides did she ride all together.” Aidan drew four more circles and then counted the whole group. “She rode eleven!” Aidan exclaimed.<\/p>\n

I then sent students out to go solve a new story problem independently. I fully expected them to solve it the same way we had practiced together…by drawing circles or some other shape.<\/p>\n

Many students did choose this strategy. However, Aaliyah decided to solve the problem with a number line. Due to the uniqueness and effectivness of her strategy, I had Aaliyah come up and share at the end of the workshop.<\/p>\n

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Aaliyah draws her number line on the dry erase board for the whole class to see.<\/p><\/div>\n

The students were completely engaged as she shared how to use her number line. And I was thrilled! As a teacher, it is one of my greatest joys to have students’ learning come from the learning of another student. I find that to be much more authentic and meaningful for the class, than if I teach a lesson on it myself. If I were to bet, I’d say that we will have quite a few students trying to solve tomorrow’s math problems with a number line!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today during Math Workshop, we talked, for the second day, about how to use drawings to help us solve math problems. We practiced a story problem together on the dry erase board. “Kynden went to the fair and rode on 7 rides,” I said. Aidan helped by drawing seven circles on the board. Then I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":616,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109549],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-estridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/616"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3683,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/revisions\/3683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}