Putting Ideas into Practice: Lesson 1

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Introduction

Teachers use different materials and strategies to integrate visualizations into their lessons and promote learning with understanding.

By the end of this lesson, participants will be able to answer and reflect on the following question:

• What are some tools and strategies you can use to create visualizations to teach mathematics with understanding in the classroom?

Assignments

Watch these videos:

• https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/visualizing-geometry-lesson
• https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/visualizing-number-combinations
• https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/algebra-lesson-planning

Reflection Using the videos provided, information from this course, and your own experiences, write a 2 paragraph reflection on how these teachers are integrating visualizations into their lessons. What are some strategies these mathematics teachers use to promote learning with understanding? How to they incorporated visualizations into their lessons? How would you rate these lessons? What would you change to make them better? Share your findings in the discussion tab for this lesson.

Links

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Mini-Course: Using Visualizations to Teach Mathematics with Understanding (Spring 2015 Mini-Course)

Portfolio Page: Melissa Connor's Portfolio Page for Spring 2015 Mini-Course