Personal Learning Path

Personal Objective: This week I wanted to focus on second-grade geometry, which would include 2-dimensional shapes and introducing fractions. Common Core Standard: Second Grade: 2.G Reason with shapes and their attributes. Recognize and draw shappes having specific atributes, such as a given number of angels or a given number of equal faces. Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes. Partition a rectangel into rows and columns of same size squares and count to find the total number of them. Partition circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares, describe the shares, descrbe the shares using words halves, thirds, half of, a third of, etc., and describe the whole as two halves, three thirds, four fourths. Recognize that equal shares of a identical wholes need not hbae the same shape. Activity: Other Resources: Reflection: I found two worksheets from Education.com that would be a good way for students to see shapes and fra

Personal Objective: This week I wanted to look into the best ways to introduce place values and value comparisons of the ones and tens place to a first-grade class. My goal was to focus more on conceptual knowledge rather than procedural knowledge.  Common Core Standard: First Grade:1 .NBT Understand that the two-digit number represents amount of tens and ones.  Compare two two-digit numbers based on meanings of the tens and ones digits, recording the results of comparisons with the symbols >,=, and<. Activity: Place Value Activity:       Comparing Numbers Activity: Other Resources: Reflection: I really enjoyed the Khan Academy video. For me, it has been a while since I have actually thought of the meaning and importance of the place values, specifically tens and ones. The Khan Academy video provided essential background knowledge. While completing both worksheets, I noticed that there was a method that used memorization that did not r