MMPI Decimals and Fractions St. Clair County RESA Professional Development Day November 4, 2008 Presenter: Dr. Monica Hartman
MMPI Project Focus Provide professional service to special education and general education teachers of special education students who must take the MEAP Intentionally narrow to address AYP issues Relevant to broader audience
MMPI Website michiganmathematics.org
Instructional Components The MMPI project emphasizes connections among three types of representations. Symbolic Verbal Concrete Manipulative Pictorial The ability to move fluently from one representation to another is a measure of students’ depth of knowledge.
Chapter Focus Overview of Chapter Sequence of topics Analysis of aligned GLCE Relevant MEAP item analysis Selected MEAP released items Variety of instructional strategies
Diagnostic Inventories Given a contextual situation, draw a representation Given a mathematical statement, identify a related representation Given a representation, write a related mathematical statement Compute basic facts Compute basic problems Compute intermediate problems Compute complex problems
GLCEs by Grade March 2005
Chapters Chapter 2: Place Value and Numeration Chapter 3: Whole Number Addition and Subtraction Chapter 4: Whole Number Multiplication and Division Chapter 5: Decimals (Basic) Chapter 6: Fractions (Basic)
What does this expression mean? 4 ÷ 2
What does this expression mean? 2 ÷ 1/2
What does this expression mean? 1 ÷ 1/3
What does this expression mean? 1/3 ÷ 3
Solve this problem. 4 2/5 ÷ 1/3
I purchases 5 ¾ pounds of chocolate –covered peanuts I purchases 5 ¾ pounds of chocolate –covered peanuts. I want to store the candy in ½ pound bags so that I can freeze it and use it in smaller portions. How many ½ pound bags can I make?