Saturday, October 27, 2012
how am I going to incorporate factoring into my lessons.
We are beginning to start on function this six weeks. I plan to introduce the lesson that was given to us in September. I best way I could do this is by reintroducing the algebra tiles to my students and demonstrating area again. I will then see how they retained what we talked about in the first six weeks.
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With the sped students, I would start off with the Algebra tiles to introducefactoring. Hopefully this will help them get a foundation of factoring, along with a kinesthetic component. I feel like this will get them thinking and open a dialogue with them.
ReplyDeleteI am choosing the first lesson; Dr. Pratt's balancing blocks.
DeleteI think the lesson is an excellent model for introducing factoring polynomials. I think the concrete model really helps students visualize and understand the concept of factoring before moving to the abstract.
ReplyDeleteI really love the way that students are going to be able to "see" what is going on with factoring. I strongly believe that good teaching involves a series of steps that will eventually lead the students to the abstract.
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