Learn Anew and Teach with Confidence: Series I/Session 1- Fun with Fractions (Decimals, and Percents):Content (NE)

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Overview

Understand and teach fractions, decimals, and percents using collaborative, hands-on methods that appeal to multiple intelligences. Deepen your appreciation for the ways we represent and problem solve with the ‘rational’ numbers known as fractions. Erase fears and anxieties about numbers. Enjoy the company of colleagues and new perspectives on familiar topics. Come, learn, and grow with NE SABES skilled presenters and facilitators. Increase your own problem solving competence as you explore math content areas, and build your confidence as you learn new multi-sensory teaching strategies that are both creative and fun! Join the movement to improve math understanding. Join the movement to improve student possibilities within the family, community, and workplace.

Details

Stop fractions from frazzling you! Hands-on and integrated math activities explore the meaning of fractions, decimals, and percents. Collaborate in pairs and groups to picture, write about, and discuss the ways we represent, use, and operate with true fractions and special fractions: decimals and percents. Fractions can be fun – come join us to discover how. This is a two session workshop. This registration site is for both Session One( Dec.3) and Two(Dec.10) of Series One. An optional "Teacher to Teacher" follow-up sharing session is open to all practitioners January 21, 2009. Please refer to SABES calendar to register for this follow-up session. PDPs will be awarded upon successful completion of at least 10 hours of paricipation in this Math Series.

When

December 3, 2008 from 01:00 pm to 04:00 pm

Where

• Operation Bootstrap
• 156 Broad St.
• Lynn, Ma. 01902

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Topics

ABE, ESOL, GED, Curriculum Development

Multi-session attendance required

yes

Contact info

Janet Piracha
jpiracha@necc.mass.edu
978-738-7304

Indicators of Program Quality

IPQ1 - Curriculum and instruction

Learning objectives

As a result of Session One Workshop, paricipants will:

• 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;
• explain four interpretations of fraction symbols (as a division problem; as a part-whole relationship within a measurement, a set, or an area; as a number; as a ratio)

Presenters

Barbara Goodridge and Christina Cronin

Presenters Bio

Barbara Goodridge and Christina Cronin are both math teachers at Lowell Adult Education Program and have been facilitating the highly successful Teacher to Teacher Math sessions for the past three years. Their approach will build your confidence as you learn new multi-sensory teaching strategies that are both creative and fun!

Host RSC

Northeast Massachusetts Region

PDPs

yes