Reflect:
- Video Link: Part 5: Importance of Visuals in Math
- Log in to Brainingcamp and create a task or four 😉 that could help students build their number sense and/or fluency through visuals.
- Brainingcamp log in: tsdmathteacher and password: tsdmathteacher
Consider the following questions:
- What tasks did you create using Brainingcamp? Describe them or, better yet, give us the sharecode!
- Aside from Brainingcamp, what other ways do you incorporate visuals in math?
- What caused you to pause and think during this video?
Respond:
After watching the video and exploring Brainingcamp, please post your response to one {or more} of the prompts above.
Interact:
Read your colleagues' reflections. Feel free to respond to someone by sharing a comment, insight, or interesting possibility.
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I had fun looking around in Brainingcamp. I have played with the app a bit before, but it was great looking at it with visuals and this new learning in mind. I just finished adding and subtracting fractions and I am now moving into decimals. I was trying to think about how to use the Brainingcamp resource to look at that skill. I tried using the decimal place value tiles and those seem to work well in terms of really building understanding around place value and the expanded notation. Link to a quick activity I made: https://app.brainingcamp.com/s/NUCGU6CZ
ReplyDeleteI draw a lot on the board while I teach. I encourage other students to come up and draw as well. We are modeling a lot as we talk and thinking of different ways to explain the concepts. We also use Kahoot and other stations that rely heavily on visuals to support thinking.
In the video there are so many awesome strategies about visuals. I love the way it starts with asking how we visual 9 versus a cat. The intentionality of including really vivid and clear visuals is so important. Without the visuals students are relying on memorization or skip counting. Using the visualizations will allow them to internalize their memorization/facts and have something for them to tie their concepts to. All of this really helped me understand how I can use visualizations of numbers and facts in fifth grade. It is going to be hugely helpful in supporting my students who are still working on some of those more basic skills.
The "cat" vs "9" example blew my mind as well. Making connections and supporting new content with visuals is so important in math!
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ReplyDeleteHere is a short Brainingcamp General Overview Video that is pretty helpful: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1INSeJP-oH3j0--EyzEZyIdNrHkkDvLld/view
Here is a slide deck that you can use to help your students log in and explore Brainingcamp: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1n4j2D0ZhUj8N1IwS9WT8MPJkfKIPiHP3fQcAg4d69nA/edit?usp=sharing
Visuals are so important in kindergarten, especially in math and as we teach brand new concepts such as addition and subtraction. This video really solidified everything I already kind of felt about visuals and I like that is highlighted the importance of visuals when working with addition especially. Truly understanding the concept of what you are doing when you add two things together is so important for math fluency.
ReplyDeleteI was very excited to use BraningCamp this year. I took the training over the summer and instantly knew it would be a great tool for kindergarten. We started using BrainingCamp when we got out ipads in the classroom, and I actually allow students to use the ipads as an additional math center. Right now we are mostly using pattern blocks, but I have enouraged them to use both the connecting cubes and ten frames. I have also used brainingcamp as a teaching tool. Most recently we (myself and the ipad group) did an activity where we were playing a game with dice and representing that number on a 5 frame and we came up with the problem, what do we do if we roll a 6? Each of them came with a different solution on where to put that extra disc and while this lesson easily could have been done on paper, they were so much more engaged using Brainingcamp and I think that was reflected in their creative solutions.
I need to come in and snap a few pics of your kids on Braningcamp. Someone just asked me this week if Brainingcamp is appropriate for kindergarten and I said yes, but it would be wonderful to share a few pics with those who might be skeptical...
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