JCMS Math Participants

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JCMS Math Participants

• Gail Jackson
• Robert Hinton
• Christina Diederich
• Giselle Ashford

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What?

• What have we learned?
• We learned quickly never to ride on a bus with
  Mr. Hinton! http//www.youtube.com/watch?vC8M4fdI
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What?

• At our first meeting at UNCW we were introduced
  to the book This We Believe.
• This book reaffirms what we know as teachers and
  professionals at JCMS.
• We know in order for our students to be
  successful we have to be a special kind of
  teacher. Our students are important to us and we
  are important to them. It is our responsibility
  and job to find ways in which to help and
  motivate them to learn.

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What have we learned?

• Even though we attend many workshops, we
  sometimes fail to incorporate the strategies we
  learn into our lessons.
• To motivate students we have integrated a lot of
  technology into our lessons.
• With the information we have been introduced to
  in this quest we have found new ways to help
  reach all of our learners.

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So What?

• The text we were given as math participants,
  Teaching Reading in Mathematics, is now
  instrumental in our classrooms.
• The graphic organizers, especially the K-N-W-S,
  were easy to implement and use in our daily
  lessons.

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Our specific favorites

• The Frayer Model helps to focus on math
  vocabulary. It provides students with the
  opportunity to understand what a concept is and
  what it is not.
• Activstudio3\My Flipcharts\NCQuest Frayer
  Model.flp

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Another math favorite

• Math isnt just about working out a problem, it
  is about reading the problem and figuring out
  exactly what we need to do to solve it.
• Word problems are the most tested on the End of
  Grade test.
• Students need a strategy to help them break down
  the contents of a word problem and plan an
  approach which will help them solve it.
• The KNWS (K-W-L for word problems) helps the
  students determine the information they need in
  order to solve the problem. Activstudio3\My
  Flipcharts\NCQuest KNWS.flp

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Now What?

• With the strategies we have been working with and
  our continuing education with the NCQuest group
  we will be able to further our student knowledge
  and understanding.
• Our goal is to continue implementing the
  strategies and sharing them with our colleagues
  who were not able to participate in the NCQuest
  program.