Wendy Petti is the creator of the award-winning Math Cats Web site. She teaches 4th grade math at Washington International School, as well as presenting across the nation. I discovered a couple of her articles on Edutopia. One is on Writing About Math (summary here), which attracted me because in doing blogging with students for the first time last school year, I was and am always on the lookout for good prompts, questioning ideas and resources (I am learning to ask more open-ended questions, but still have miles to go). After reading the article, I ordered a couple of books from Amazon, that looked good.
One thing that is happening in the creation of my own web page/blog site (whatever we are going to call this!), is that I am starting to imagine the Math Notebooks that students kept last year in addition to participating in a weekly blog question, might be better to create and develop into a more electronic format, and ownership of each student's own website or blogsite. So, these questions look good.
The second article is on Math in the News (summary and response sheet here), and offers oodles more ideas for topics, curriculum enhancement and relationship to economics and real world charts, graphs, usage of numbers and just the universality of mathematics.
A summary of both Wendi Pettit's articles may be viewed here.
One thing that is happening in the creation of my own web page/blog site (whatever we are going to call this!), is that I am starting to imagine the Math Notebooks that students kept last year in addition to participating in a weekly blog question, might be better to create and develop into a more electronic format, and ownership of each student's own website or blogsite. So, these questions look good.
The second article is on Math in the News (summary and response sheet here), and offers oodles more ideas for topics, curriculum enhancement and relationship to economics and real world charts, graphs, usage of numbers and just the universality of mathematics.
A summary of both Wendi Pettit's articles may be viewed here.