Fun with Fractions, Decimals and Percents (Bos) Session 1/3

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Overview

...Fractions can be fun-- come join us to discover how! Stop fractions from frazzling you and befuddling your students! Come to a three-session math for literacy teachers series "Fun with Fractions, Decimals and Percents," where you will collaborate in pairs and groups to picture, write about and discuss the ways we represent, use and operate with fractions, decimals and percents.

Details

Session 1: Content-- invites you to explore several hands-on activities that illuminate key fraction concepts. Session 2: Instruction-includes demonstrations, discussion, and more activities designed to enhance your teaching of fractions, decimals and percents. Session 3: Teacher-to-Teacher Meeting is facilitated by experienced math practitioner leaders. This is a great opportunity to exchange ideas with your fellow teachers over refreshments and in a relaxed atmosphere. Together we will discuss student responses to classroom activities and view classroom activities through the Math/Numeracy Curriculum Frameworks lens. Each of the 3 sessions lasts three hours. There may be a brief assignment such as trying out an activity you like, between Session 1 and 2. Bring a friend and enjoy the company of colleagues, as you gain new perspectives on familiar topics. Open to all; suitable for ABE to GED, and ESOL teachers, math phobic and math confident teachers and everyone in between.

When

January 9, 2009 from 01:00 pm to 04:00 pm

Where

• Adult Literacy Resource Institute/Greater Boston SABES, Wheatley Building 4th Floor, Room 04-167/Library, UMass Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston MA 02125
• Adult Literacy Resource Institute/Greater Boston SABES
• Wheatley Building 4th Floor, Room 04-167/Library
• UMass Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125

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Registration Deadline

Jan 02, 2008 at 9:05 PM

Topics

ABE, ESOL, GED, Curriculum Development

Contact info

Andrea Lawless
andrea.lawless@umb.edu
(617) 287-4072

Indicators of Program Quality

IPQ1 - Curriculum and instruction

Learning objectives

Participants in these workshops will be able to: Describe at least two fraction activities that make fractions accessible to many levels of students. Identify at least two models for representing fractions and percents. Use at least one model to picture operations involving fractions or fraction answers. Distinguish the four interpretations of fraction symbols. Describe at least two instructional methods that make fractions, decimals and percents accessible to many levels of students. Use at least two models to picture operations involving fractions or fraction answers. Articulate learning issues related to fractions, decimals and percents. Apply the Math/Numeracy Curriculum Frameworks' Core Concepts, Guiding Principles, Habits of Mind, Standards and Benchmarks to review activities and lessons. Examine and interpret student work related to fractions, decimals and percents. Apply appropriate sections of the Math/Numeracy Curriculum Frameworks to review activities and lessons

Presenters

Dorrie Nord
Abby Magee

Presenters Bio

Dorrie Nord is a GED teacher at Julie's Family Learning Project. She has been teaching ABE since 1996, has facilitated Math Teacher-to-Teacher workshops for the past two years and is pursuing a Master's degree in mathematics for teaching. Abby MaGee teaches at Notre Dame Education Center and has worked with TERC training adult education teachers in Kansas and in New York.

Host RSC

Boston Region

PDPs

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