Class+Three+-+Sept+15

Make sure I have your schedule information to make field placements - include partner.
 * Everyone is at their field placement on Wednesdays - and plan on 8:00-10:30 because we'll also do activities other than your math class.
 * You, your partner, and your cooperating teacher select the second day - ONLY math period

__**In Class Discussion - Communications **__

1. Brainstorm a list of ways that students can communicate mathematically. Which of these were used in the various classroom episodes

 2. Students are often not accustomed to communicating their thinking and reasoning verbally or with words and pictures in mathematics classes. How can teachers help students who are having trouble?

 3. What is the teacher's role in a classroom that emphasizes mathematics as communication? Comment on the interactions of the teachers and their students in the various lesson episode

__**Assignments for Monday, Sept 20 **__

1. Read chapters 3 and 4 in in our Cathcart text.

2. Read the Articles **//What research says about interactive whiteboards//** and //**Improving Basic Mathematics Instruction: Promising Technology**//

3 Review the information on the [|Let's Read Math website.]

4. Review the list of LRM books and select one that you want to review.

5. Select two LRM lesson plans to print out, read and bring to class. Select from one of the following sites

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