1. DO You Speak Math?
OHIO
February 3, 2015

2. Why Change is Necessary
60% of all new jobs in the 21st century will require skills that are possessed by only 20% of the current work force (US Dept. of Ed)
The common denominator for success in college is the successful completion of algebra and geometry (Houghton/Mifflin)

3. Goals for Today Empower Facilitators Prove
Develop and deepen your familiarity with math discussions and math questions
Provide strategies to “help you help your children” master the Content Standards through the Practice Standards
Prove
MATH IS NOT A SPECTATOR SPORT

4. HOW DO YOU HELP? QUESTION QUESTION QUESTION What do you already know?
How do you know that?
What are you being asked to find?
Can you organize your data?
What do you think your answer should be?
What would happen if….?

5. Expectations
Expect success – there is no math gene; everyone can learn math
Expect answers in complete sentences –
Three plus five equals eight
3 + 5 = 8
3 + 5 = 6 + 2
Expect explanations – hear it, say it, write it – internalize it

6. Around the House Sort Groceries:
Eat/Not Eat
Pasta/vegetables/produce/meat
Bags/boxes/cans/bottles
Sort Toys: action figures, board games, etc.

7. Around the House Sort Groceries: type, weight, shapes
Sort Toys: action figures, board games, etc.
Find Shapes around the House: squares, rectangles, circles, by room, tally chart
Find Numbers: clock, microwave, thermostat, dvd/cd player 7

8. Complete Sentences:
The sum of three and eleven is equal to fourteen = 14
When you add the three to eleven you get fourteen = 14
Fourteen is the result when you increase three by eleven. 14 =

9. Seven 7 6 + 1 Odd Prime 2 less than 9 Greater than 3
Small when compared to 179
Large when compared to 1/10

10. Connect Numbers to the Real World
Ways to express 9
- 2 more than the number of days in a week
- 3 less than a dozen eggs
- 2 less than the number of players on a football team
- Not 6 + 7
- Not 45/8

11. Two Color Counters
Use a two-color counter template.
Count out five two-color counters and put them in a paper or plastic cup.
Shake the cup and carefully spill out the counters onto the table.
How many are red? Yellow?
Put this information in the template. Repeat the activity ten times
Do you have all combinations?

12. Write number sentences for the information you recorded in the template.
Read the number sentences.
How do you know that you have all combinations?
Can you think of a rule?

13. Number Activities Rote Counting Forward and Backward
Count by 1’s - Stop at 20
Start at 3 – count by 1’s
Start at 5 – count by 3’s
Start at 9 – count by 7’s
Start at 56 – count backward by 2, by 3, by 4

14. Reading and Writing Large Numbers
1,000,000
Replace the zero in the hundreds place with a three.
Write the new number. Read the new number.
Replace the zero in the ten thousands place of the new number with a nine.
Replace the zero in the tens place of the new number with a two. ……

15. PATTERNS Math is the science of patterns and order. AAB GGY TTL
Blue Blue Red
Clap Clap Snap

16. Football Frenzy Your favorite football team made the playoffs.
You are tracking their progress each week.
You know their scores in the last five games were:
20, 24, 38, 33, and 34.
What plays could the team have made to get each of the scores?

17. Largest/Smallest
Choose two dominoes and make the smallest two-digit number you can from each. For example:
These dominoes become 56 and 45.
Find the sum.

18. Largest/Smallest
Choose two dominoes and make the largest two-digit number you can from each. For example:
These dominoes become 65 and 54.
Find the sum.

19. HUNDREDS CHART

20. Hundreds Chart Used to generate number sense
Provides basis for addition and subtraction
Gives students a way to solve problems using mental math
Horizontal numbers increase by 1
Vertical numbers increase by 10

21. Grade 3 Problem 13 Here is a part of the Hundreds Chart
Grade 3 Problem 13 Here is a part of the Hundreds Chart. Fill in the missing numbers. What patterns did you use to find the missing numbers? 5 27 33

22. Pattern Blocks Use your pattern blocks to build pictures.
Hexagon – 6 points
Trapezoid – 5 points
Triangle – 4 points
Square – 3 points
Parallelogram – 2 points
Rhombus – 1 point
Build a picture worth more than 30 points but less than 50 points and prove you are right.

24. Grade 2 Problems 61 - 67 Problem 66 Take out your pattern blocks.
The hexagon is one whole. What shape is one-half of the hexagon? Prove it.
The hexagon is one whole. What shape is one-third of the hexagon? Prove it.
The parallelogram is one whole. What shape is one-half of the parallelogram? Prove it.

25. Football Frenzy Discuss various scoring options
Evaluate specific examples
Touchdown – 6 points
PAT – 1 point
Two-point conversion – 2 points
Field Goal – 3 points
Safety – 2 points
2 touchdowns, 2 extra points, and 1 field goal results in 17 points

26. Reasons for Doing Things
Builds the Concept of PROOF
Playing Outside
Fresh air is good for us
Exercise helps us stay in shape
It’s fun
Play things you can’t play inside

27. Perimeter
Find the perimeter of a rectangle with a length of twelve and a width of six.

28. Perimeter
1. The perimeter of a rectangle is 36 units. Construct two different figures that satisfy this condition.
2. The perimeter of a five sided figure is 36 units. Give one set of correct measurements for this figure. Show the figure.
3. What happens to the measurement of the sides as the number of sides increases?

29. Goals for Today Empower Facilitators Prove
Develop and deepen your familiarity with math discussions and math questions
Provide strategies to “help you help your children” master the Content Standards through the Practice Standards
Prove
MATH IS NOT A SPECTATOR SPORT

30. Take Aways
Name an idea you can take with you and use immediately in your classroom.
QUESTIONS???

31. Contact Information
Ellen Mulligan MathShapes: go figure! Helping You Help a Child