Personal Learning Path

Personal Objective: For this week's entry, I wanted to focus on statistics specifically the three M's (Mean, Median, and Mode) and Range. These concepts are useful tools for analyzing large groups of numbers. Students may find the statistics overwhelming. Common Core Standard: Sixth Grade: 6.SP.A.2 Understand that a set of data collected to answer a statistical question has a distribution which can be described by its center, spread, and overall shape. Activity: MathWorksheets4Kids.Com Other Resources: The Animated Classroom: Math Antics: Teachers Pay Teachers Fortune Teller: Reflection: Mean, Median, Mode, and Range require students to learn a new set of rules. Students would have to understand that the mean is another name for average and the student will need to add up all the numbers and divide by the sum of the numbers added. To find the median, you must arrange the numbers in sequential order and determine the number in the m...

Personal Objective: Sixth graders have prior knowledge of geometry from previous mathematics courses. When geometry is discussed in their current classroom, they are expected to make a connection between prior and current knowledge. This week's blog will focus on helping students link prior knowledge and newly acquired knowledge. Common Core Standard: Sixth Grade: 6.G.A Find the area of right triangles, other triangles, special quadrilaterals, and polygons by composing into rectangles or decomposing into triangles and other shapes; apply these techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems. Activity: K-5 Learning: Other Resources: Math Antics: Khan Academy: Teachers Pay Teachers: Discussion Question Provided by CK12.org: If you connect the midpoints on each side of a parallelogram to form a figure, can you find the area of the new quadrilateral? How? Reflection: Students will be entering their mathematics classroom...

Personal Objective: This week's entry will focus on introducing a coordinate plane to fifth graders. Coordinate plans are useful for interpreting graphs. Common Core Standard: Fifth Grade: 5.G.A Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and mathematical problems. Use a pair of perpendicular number lines, called axes, to define a coordinate system, with the intersection of the lines (the origin) arranged to coincide with the 0 on each line and a given point in the plane located by using an ordered pair of numbers, called its coordinates. Understand that the first number indicates how far to travel from the origin in the direction of one axis, and the second number indicates how far to travel in the direction of the second axis, with the convention that the names of the two axes and the coordinates correspond (e.g., x -axis and x -coordinate, y -axis and y -coordinate). Represent real world and mathematical problems by graphing points in the first quadran...

Personal Objective: My topic this week is introducing conversions to fourth-grade students. Conversions are closely related to proportions and can be a troubling topic for students. For students to comprehend the S.I or metric system students need to understand the powers of ten. Common Core Standard: Fourth Grade: 4.MD Solve problems involving measurement and conversion of measurements from a larger unit to a smaller unit. 1. Know relative sizes of measurement units within one system of units including km, m, cm, kg, g; lb, oz.; l, m; hr, min, sec. Within a single system of measurements, express measurements in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit. Record measurement equivalents in a two-column table. Activity: Education.com: K5 Learning: Other Resources: Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/commoncore/grade-4-MD Class K12: https://www.classk12.com/practice/grade-4-math/5 BrainSTEM: Math Antics: Reflection: The Edu...