Elementary Education

Week 4

Use base ten blocks to build 1 and 2-digit multiplication and draw diagrams

Use alternative algorithms to multiply multi digit multiplication

Demonstrate strategies to increase student automaticity of multiplication facts

Week 5

The skill of looking at a number and determining its divisibility given a set of numbers

How to demonstrate division problems using base ten blocks, pictorial representations, and alternative algorithms

How to find prime factorization and how discover how it is used

Week 7

Use manipulatives to demonstrate the meaning of fractions.

Use manipulatives to demonstrate how to find equivalent fractions.

How to demonstrate the meaning of the numerator and denominator

Week 8

Representing fractions using different manipulatives

Demonstrating how to use manipulatives to add/sub/multiply fractions

Demonstrate how to use Fraction manipulatives to solve additions, subtraction and multiplication problems

Week 10

How to solve fractions using reasoning and understanding

Solving add/sub/multiply problems with mixed fractions, same denominator and different denominator

The explanation as to why we need to find common denominators when adding and subtracting but not multiplying or dividing

Week 12

Use algorithms to solve adding and subtracting integers

Using 2-color counters to solve subtraction

Use diagrams to solve subtracting integers

Week 14

The order of operations for solving expressions

How to calculate negative numbers that are being squared

Determine how many groups are in an expression and correctly utilize the order of operations

Week 1

At the start of this class, we reviewed the syllabus, supplies, and books needed

Ploya's problems, 4 step method

Earliest stages of number senses and problem solving process

Week 2

Building Addition Base Ten Blocks

Showing Addition

How to use alternative algorithms for addition

Week 3

Alternative algorithms for addition

Demonstrate basic subtraction problems using manipulatives and pictorial representations

Alternative algorithms for subtraction

Week 6

Identify what the numerator and the denominator mean in meaningful context

Describe why students will need to find common denominators for certain problems but not for other problems

Determine which fraction is larger by using reasoning skills versus an algorithm

Week 9

How to draw representations of adding, subtracting and multiplying fractions

Demonstrate how to add, subtract and multiply fractions using a pictorial representation

Determine when it is necessary to draw 1 diagram, 2 diagrams, or 3 diagrams

Week 11

Use 2-color counters to solve Addition, Subtraction, and Multiplication Problems

Learn how how to add, subtract and multiply integers using concrete and pictorial representations

Use 2-color counters to represent integers

Week 13

Using 2-color counters to solve multiplication

Using diagrams to solve multiplying integers

Using algorithms to solve multiplying and dividing integers

Week 15

Demonstrate percents using a diagram

Calculate the percents of numbers

Mentally calculate percents of numbers