StandardsLesson

You will want to look at the NCTM Standards as you write up this lesson. http://standards.nctm.org/document/index.htm

Assignment:

Either watch the video lesson: # 20: Shapes from Squares in the Teaching Math Video Library K-4 at http://learner.org/resources/series32.html You will be asked to sign up for a free membership to be able to watch videos on this site. If your computer is a Mac, you will also need to install Flip4Mac

OR

Read the lesson More About Dates: A lesson for grades 4-5 from the Math Solutions issue 34 newsletter

Then write an analysis of the lesson telling 1 content and 1 process standard that are featured prominently in this lesson.

Identify one and only one specific content topic that is prominently addressed in the lesson.

Give as specific a description as you can of what the math content is. You may wish to quote sub-goals from the standards

Tell me what children are doing in the lesson that shows they are learning or practicing that content.

Identify one and only one specific mathematical process that is prominently addressed in the lesson

Quote an appropriate sub-goal from the standards that describes how the process appears in the lesson

Tell me what children are doing in the lesson that shows they are learning or practicing that process.

If you missed class or if you forgot what we did in class, you can watch the videos and do the readings that I put together for an on line class I have taught. Read/watch the stuff under the headings Format and structure of the math standards and Process standards.