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Teacher is teaching lesson about factors. Gives students 8 plastic cubes. What question would
she ask in order to teach factors? - (ANSWER)How many different rectangles can you make?
100/(2/3) is the same as? - (ANSWER)100x3/2
Game with kids, guess # between 1 and 20. Teacher says, "no it's more than this" or "it's less",
etc. Why is she doing that? - (ANSWER)building math with vocab
How would you teach kids difference between size of apple and orange and about elapsed time?
- (ANSWER)put props in dramatic play area
If child has IEP and cutting shapes and pasting to graphic organizer, what should you do? -
(ANSWER)Have them draw shapes to see if they can identify where to put shapes on organizer
If teacher asks a child to cut two rectangles in half in a diagonal, what are they doing? -
(ANSWER)practicing right triangles
Congruency - (ANSWER)exactly the same
Similarity - (ANSWER)only similar
1x5 rectangle plus 3x5 rectangle. What 2 things are being taught? - (ANSWER)area and
multiplication
,What is a variable? - (ANSWER)x + 4 = 10. What is x?
What is teacher working on with variables? - (ANSWER)factoring
How do you build math inquiry and how do they figure out the answer? - (ANSWER)allow
students to listen to one another's problem solving skills; by sharing problems/skills
Why use math journal? - (ANSWER)to record strategies children talk about and build inquiry
Student have trouble with single by double digit addition. What assessment would you use to
pinpoint problem? - (ANSWER)error analysis
There are 6 or 12 problems. Half of them are addition, half subtraction. All the addition problems
have correct answers. Majority of subtraction are wrong. What should you do with child to help
them? - (ANSWER)teach them to use addition to check subtraction
What mistake from kids should you look for in subtraction? - (ANSWER)borrowing
What mistake from kids should you look for in addition? - (ANSWER)carrying
Child makes a mistake in a problem. What should teacher work on? - (ANSWER)order of
operations or PEMDAS
Teacher has blocks piled up in room and kids have to stack them vertically. Some come out
exactly the same, others have some left over. Why is the teacher doing this? - (ANSWER)to
teach even and odd numbers
GPS Satellite system works with what? - (ANSWER)geometry
, What does sorting teach kids? - (ANSWER)Allow kids to choose own characteristics then
explain it and teaches items in a set
Purpose of circle graph? - (ANSWER)to show parts of a whole
Line graph - (ANSWER)1 entity
Bar graph - (ANSWER)more than 1 at a time
What is an abacus used for? - (ANSWER)place value
A child is counting blocks. Every time he is off by 1 # because he is not using one-to-one
correspondence. What should you have child do? - (ANSWER)drop blocks in buckets
How do you know if a child displays number sense? - (ANSWER)If they understand it is
quantity, not quality/size of an object
If a child sees the same number or elephants and same number of crayons and understand they
are equal, what do they understand? - (ANSWER)number sense
What is counting on? - (ANSWER)When a child does not go back to zero to add 2 things
together (ex. 3+3 - 3, 4, 5, 6)
What is considered measurement? - (ANSWER)comparing, sequencing, size, more or less
Teacher asks students favorite ice cream. Collects answers and compares them. What is she
using? - (ANSWER)data/statistics