Week 3:
Monday, Jan 21: MLK holiday, no class
Due Wednesday, Jan 23: (to be scored) Write in detail about the three questions below, referring to the article by Nancy Mack that we discussed in class.
8 am class: for questions 2 and 3 refer to the potato chip teaching episode on page 286.
10 am class: for questions 2 and 3 refer to the cookie teaching episode on pages 290, 291.
1) What are the mathematical ideas involved in understanding fraction multiplication deeply?
2) What do the children understand about fraction multiplication at different stages of instruction?
3) How does the teacher/researcher help the children develop their understanding?
Week 4:
Due Monday, Jan 28: (to be checked) Write a problem for elementary school children that uses some of the mathematical ideas that you needed for the problems we solved in class on January 23. Your problem can be suitable for any grade PreK-5 and you don't have to specify the grade or age.
Due Wednesday, Jan 30: (to be checked) Write a problem for grades PreK - 2 that involves mathematical ideas that are in problems 6, 7, 8 (of the handout from Jan. 23), and that might help young children begin to develop those ideas.
The electronic examples we looked at can be found at