Methods of Math Teaching and Learning

  Math Campus Trail II: The Quad Continuing the math campus trail for one more week was necessary. AAMU has many things to offer mathematically, and PST needed another example to reference for their assignment. Preservice teachers (PST) were presented this time with the task of seeing relevance in mathematics with the Quad. The Quad was chosen because AAMU used this area to have weekly activities such as Every Sunny Wednesday. There are diverse activities during Every Sunny Wednesdays based on student services decisions. However, for this math campus trail, Every Sunny Wednesday is not the focus of this activity. The focus for this activity will be the Quad itself. Figure 1 is a picture of the Quad on campus. This is the picture I presented to PST. Figure 2 is a picture of PST responses to finding math representations on the Quad. Figure 1 Picture of the Quad at AAMU Figure 2 PST Math Findings on Quad Findings: The mathematics domain that PST came up with includes the following:

  Campus Math Trail! Finding the Math Across Campus   Mathematics is everywhere! It’s in the places we go and the things we do. We should seek mathematics in our everyday lives, as in reading. Mathematic understanding is just not the select few people with what we call the math gene. Looking for the relevancy in mathematics should encompass our daily lives as we seek to make meaning with mathematics. One of my goals as a mathematics teacher educator is to pull out the real-life instances for using mathematics daily at the early childhood and elementary levels. For my preservice teachers (PST), this could be an awesome challenge especially when they may feel the connections are real connections.   For this reason and because it is Homecoming on campus, I challenged them to look across campus to determine how mathematics is used across the domains. The domains include numbers and operation-base ten, numbers and operations-fractions, counting and cardinality, geometry, and measureme