Just Say NO to Worksheets

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Just Say NO to Worksheets

• Presented by Michelle Flaming
• michellef_at_essdack.org
• ESSDACK

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Opening Activity

• Probability lies between 0 and 1
• Please line up according to where your event
  falls on the continuum.
• No Way Jose
• Please line up according to where your event
  would fall in the story setting - The Titanic

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Opening Activity

• Draw a line segment on a 1/2 sheet piece of
  paper.
• Measure your line to the nearest inch.
• Write your measurement next to the line.
• Line up in order from minimum to maximum.

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Why Use Manipulatives?

• Helps children to understand mathematics.
• Provide concrete ways for students to bring
  meaning to abstract mathematical ideas.
• Helps children to learn new concepts and relate
  new concepts to what they have already learned.
• Assist children with solving problems

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Important to focus on

• Thinking and reasoning must be the TOP priorities
  when students are engaged in learning
  manipulative materials.
• Scaffolding from concrete to pictorial to
  abstract.
• Connections of multiple representations.
• Pictures - Written Examples
• Spoken Language - Written symbols

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Cheap Manipulatives

• My Function Book
• Proportional Functions
• Foam Creatures from Oriental Trading

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Wheres the Mathematics?

• Make a list of mathematical concepts and
  processes used during this activity?

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Two- Day Format

• Focused Activity with the Manipulative
• Watching Lessons of Students Work with
  Manipulative
• Videotape Discussion
• More Lessons
• Day 1 Focus
• Cheap Manipulatives
• Foam Creatures, Toothpicks, Cards, Dice etc.
• Color Tiles
• Geoboards
• Day 2 Focus
• Base-Ten Blocks
• Pattern Blocks
• Unifix Cubes

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Color Tiles

• Presenting Color Tiles
• Viewing the Videotape
• Focus on the teachers thinking and reasoning.
• More Explorations using color tiles.
• Discussion of the Videotape

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Color Tiles Uses

• Counting
• Estimating
• Measuring
• Investigating multiplication patterns.
• Solving problems with fractions
• Exploring geometric shapes
• Carrying out probability experiments

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Viewing the Videotape

• What did you observe about the teaching? Refer
  to specific examples from the videotape.
• What did you observe in the childrens responses?
  Refer to specific examples from the videotape.
• What questions do you have as a result of
  watching the videotape.

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Videotape discussion

• In the first activity, in which the 4th graders
  build rectangles for different number of tiles,
  the students were given a chance to explore with
  materials, then they were given a worksheet so
  that they could reflect on what they had done,
  and finally the class was brought together at the
  end for a class discussion. Discuss the benefits
  of each aspects of the lesson.

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Videotape discussion

• You saw Hal and Myisha and then Russ and Shane
  working together on the Fraction Rectangles
  activity. Explain why it is beneficial for
  students to work together.

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Videotape discussion

• Explain how finding areas with Color Tiles can
  help develop the second graders understanding of
  place value.

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Videotape discussion

• The 4th graders on the videotape were playing
  Four in a Row for the first time. What would you
  have the children do now?

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The Toothpick Problem

• Using four toothpicks, determine all the
  different ways you can put the four together.
• All right angles (if there is an angle)
• Touch end to end

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Wheres the Mathematics?

• Make a list of mathematical concepts and
  processes used during this activity?

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Making Useable ClocksX Marks The Spot
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Things I want to Remember

• Share one idea you wrote down.
• What are the benefits of using manipulatives?
• Two day workshop scheduled for
• August 2nd and 3rd
• November 20th - Day 1
• January 24th - Day 2