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If you teach math, this situation will likely be familiar to you. Students need to solve a problem but they refuse to show their work. I am on a mission to get them to solve problems AND show their work without making funny faces like you are giving them bitter syrup. It is being a tough mission, they do good for a couple days, but then they forget...Anyways, as part of the mission I am creating posters like this so that they see it the way I want to see it. I think I am not asking too much but...maybe by the end of the year? I hope so , this mission is turning out to be an odyssey for now. Pssst...it is in Spanish, but you can easily relate.

Yesterday, Sra. Hernandez taught our class and Srta. Palma's class a recipe from El Salvador: "Pupusas" . We started by washing our hands properly, like Mrs. Larsen taught us, everybody came ready to be cooks. Mrs. Hernandez had all the ingredients ready when we came to the kitchen. First our students  measured using fractions ( 1/2 cup, 2/3 cups...) , after the dough was done, students split it in two parts and made two balls. They flattened the dough using a dish, after they put the filling inside. Finally, they covered the pupusa with the other layer and put it on the pan to toast. They were ready in a few minutes. While a group was cooking the other half were playing a fraction game in spanish.  The pupusas were so yummy! Everybody had so much fun while learnt more on practical use of fraction in our everyday life and learning a recipe from El Salvador. Thank you Sra Hernandez! PS Every student got a copy of the recipe in Spanish, please let me know if you try it

We have been doing multiplication for the last few weeks. One of the art projects was related to one of the multiplication strategies: using an array. Students had to design an "Array City" ( Ciudad de matrices in Spanish) designing buildings that had different number of rows of windows. They had to be able to express that with a multiplication equation . They first did a draft on their journals. Then they transferred that to an acetate page using a sharpie. The "windows" have to be big enough to be able to color in with a pastel crayon. Then they colored it using pastels . We finally glued it to a black piece of cardboard. After the art was done, I wanted them to work on the language component of it. We used the iPad app  'thinglink "  to label the pictures with the descriptions , both written and orally in Spanish. They posted them on their kidblog page. This is one example: I really like how thinglink provides a whole different level of c

Este año estamos incorporando los Robots de Lego Mindstorms a nuestro proyecto de aula, nuestra investigación sobre los peces. Los alumnos diseñaron un programa para calcular cuántos peces hay en un lago. Había tres lagos, unos estaban más poblados que los demás. Las causas no las sabemos, pero hay que contabilizar la población de peces para comprobar si hay menos o no. En esta foto, D.S. nos descubre por qué hay una parte del programa que no funciona. Durante una sesión de trabajo, los alumnos expusieron qué problemas tenían con los programas, había un grupo que decía que su programa no contaba los peces. D.S. nos dio la solución: los iconos de las funciones deben estar conectados entre sí con un enlace amarillo, si el enlace aparece gris, no está conectado y no da la orden. La programación que hemos utilizado ha sido bastante compleja , usando multiplicaciones, estimaciones, decimales y variables. Los programas están terminados y todos funcionan, aunque hay que ir perfeccion

QUE ES LA MULTIPLICACION? CON ESTOS JUEGOS PUEDES PRACTICAR LA MULTIPLICACION TABLA DE MULTIPLICAR INTERACTIVA EL ESCONDITE MULTIPLICA SIN PARAR

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Math Cilenia-División

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