Methods of Math Teaching and Learning

Fall Semester 2019 New Beginnings with New Preservice Teachers!!! This blog post is about the first Number Talks for the new semester. The goal for this Number Talk is to introduce the practice with a new group of Preservice Teachers (PST) in math methods. NT is really taken off in Madison County, and I want to make sure my PST are well versed in the practice. This NT includes dot images. The focus for NT using dot images is to builds accuracy, flexibility, and efficiency strategies in counting (Parrish, 2011). According to Russell (2000), "Accuracy" denotes the ability to produce an accurate answer; "efficiency" denotes the ability to choose an appropriate, expedient strategy for a specific computation problem; and "flexibility" refers to the ability to use number relationships with ease in computation.  Instead of seeing items singularly, students can figure the amount of dots by grouping them. The below  are the dot images for the first NT.  T

The blog is back!!!! I am grateful for another chance to send my thought and research by chronicalling my time with my preervice teachers. The reason for the reboot or deactivation is SOTA. I attended SISTERS OF THE ACADEMY (SOTA) Signature BootCamp, and it was an empowering experience!!! This is the reason why I am deactivating my blog. My senior scholar mentors gave me wonderful advise on how to handle being a scholar in the skin and gender. I plan to be purposeful in all that I do related to publishing and being an intricate part of the academy.  At BootCamp I met wonder ladies like me seeking that needed nudge in the right direction. We exchange ideas. We ate together, receive instruction together, received constructed feedback together, and even exercised together. We listened to sistas who have been in the academy. They were very transparent and their experience. The sistas made me feel I can be successful in the academy.