I feel like I didn't get very much from last weeks class. Part of the is my fault, since I was late coming to class. I feel like each week I leave with different strategies for teaching that particular different, and this week I left knowing about the scaffolding method for divison and the lattice mathod for multiplication. I really liked learning the scaffolding method, I have never seen that before and can see how that could help some students with the whole division process. I thought it was funny how long we spent talking about the different ways to remember the steps to division, Multiply, Divide, Subtract, Bring Down. Some teachers are very creative, I was boring when I taught this to my students. I just had a poster I created that was on my whiteboard and as we solved the division problem we would put a check mark next to each step as we finished it.
Was there more I should have gotten from last week's class?
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Most other comments really focused on the whole part-pat-whole idea. Realizing that in subtraction and division you are always given the whole and a part and want to find the other part; whereas in addition and multiplication you always have the 2 parts and are looking for the whole.
They were also intrigued by how some students loved the scaffolding method as a fun challenge and some of the other struggling students found it so much easier. Interesting.
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