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