February 2008

Date & Time

Readings and Assignments

SCI/MATH
Class 1

Monday February 11
10:30 am

Intro to Sci/Math
An Invitation to Teaching Math

Math class 2
Tuesday, February 12
8:00 am

Marilyn Burns:1-4

Van de Walle
Chapters: 1 (Teaching Mathematics in the Era of the NCTM Standards) and 2 (Exploring what it means to do mathematics)

Math class 3
Tuesday, February 19
10:30 am

Van de Walle
Chapters 21 (Geometric Thinking and Geometric Concepts)

with Everyday Mathematics Grade 4: Reflections & Symmetry

Math class 4
Wednesday, February 20
8:00 am

Van de Walle
Chapters 21 (Geometric Thinking and Geometric Concepts)
Chapter 4: Teaching through problem solving

Math class 5
Friday, February 22
8:00 am

Geometry and Spatial Snse

Virtual Manipulatives

Record Braeking Cubes

Math class 6
Friday, February 29

8:00 am

Geometry and Spatial Ssense Processing: Chapter 21

Symmtery and Reflections

March 2008

Math class 7
Monday, March 3
10:30 am

Finish Geometry and Spatial Sense
Bring to class: an de Walle, math notebook, pattern blocks, and your drawings (figure 21.34).

Math class 8
Friday, March 7
8:00 am

Please read: Burns 5-8 Chapters

 Read: Van de Walle Chapter 16: Developing Fraction Concepts

 Read: Van de Walle:  Chapter 4: Read this entire chapter very carefully. This chapter will really be at the heart our math lesson planning.

Math class 9
Tuesday, March 11
10: 30 am

Math class 9
Monday, March 17
8:00 am

Finish Burns
Van de Walle:
Chapters 13: (Strategies for whole number computation) and Chapter 14: (Computational estimation with Whole Numbers)

Math class 10
Tuesday, March 18
10:30 am

Van de Walle: Chapters 9 (Developing Early Number Concepts & Number Sense).

Chapter 11 (helping Children Master the Basic Facts)

Everyday Math: Grade 1: Adding & Subtraction
AIMS: Addition & Subtraction

Everyday Data Collection

April 2008

Math class 11
Friday, April 11
8:00 am

Peer Teaching

Peer review and feedback of math lesson plan 1:
Due Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 7:30pm by e-mail to Michele and your peer reviewer

Math Lesson Plans 1, 2 & 3 (Directions)

SCI/MATH Class 1
Friday,
April 18
8:00 am

Van de Walle: Chapter 7: Teaching Mathematics
Equitably to all Children

Course packet: (Research
articles and additional reading):
Montis, K. K. (2000). Language development
and concept flexibility in dyscalculia:
a case study. Journal for
Research in Mathematics 31, 541-556.

Read in your inclusive classrooms
book about teaching students with
special needs in
a subject specific classroom. Bring
this book to class.

SCI/MATH Class 2
Friday,
April 25
8:00 am

Course packet: (Research
articles and additional reading): Stockall, N., &
Gartin, B.  (2002).  The nature of inclusion
in a blue ribbon school: a
revelatory case.  Exceptionality, 10 (3), 171-188.

Bring
Inclusion text book to class.Read in your inclusive classrooms
book about teaching students with
special needs in
a subject specific classroom. Bring
this book to class.

May 2008

SCI/MATH Class 3

Wednesday, May 7
1:30 pm

Research

SCI/MATH Class 4

Wednesday, May 14
1:30 pm

Research

SCI/MATH Class 5

Tuesday, May 20
10:30 am

Research

SCI/MATH Class 6

Wednesday, May 21
10:30 am

Research

Friday, May 23

Small group final exam

1:00-2:30 or 2:45-4:15 pm