Re: help with elementary math education please?
From: shedar (nobody_at_nonesuch.com)
Date: 09/26/04
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Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 02:50:36 GMT
"k wallace" <wallace.k@comNOSPAMcast.net> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have been asked to tutor some elementary students at my son's school.
> These kids range from 2 first graders to a fourth grader and 3 5th
graders.
>
> I have tutored a lot of high-school students, and some middle schoolers as
> well, but I have few ideas on what to do for/with these little kids.
> Any book recommendations for curriculum/ teaching theory would be greatly
> appreciated.
> I have ideas re. how to help kids grasp ideas using tangibles and
> manipulateables, but I need more ideas and more data.
>
> TIA,
> k wallace
>
>
For the fourth graders and fifth graders, ask them to compute S =
(1+2+3+...+100) to see if there is any living "Gauss" among them, :-)
Then, show them (1) a geometric "view", and (2) an algebraic "view" of why
the following is true:
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = (4) (4 + 1) / 2
Then, show them how to compute S.
BTW, do they know how to multiply and divide in first grade (don't remember
any more)?
Shedar
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