Are You Teaching With Context?

- Teachers need to create lessons that involve story problems that have context instead of just the equation

- By giving students problems with context, we can give them the opportunity to solve it using their own understanding and strategies

- Context needs to be seen

        - Not just as an equation to be solve

Context: 

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- Lessons simply given naked number problems with no word sentence for context

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- The pages of the story book have context and illustration of what the naked problem is 

- Context is given in great depth

- Some include a lot of background information for students

How Can You Develop Conceptual Understanding?

-The different types of math problems are for teacher to know, not for students to learn and identify

-We should be able to understand student solutions and the strategies that they used

-Students are supposed to understand math ideas

       -Then be able to transfer and apply that knowledge to new situations

Develop Conceptual Understanding?

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-students are memorizing isolated facts

- Some lessons ask students to recall knowledge

            - 23x9 --> 10x9    10x9    3x9

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- Students understand math ideas

- Given the opportunity to create an equation or math drawing to represent the word problem they are given

- Can apply the knowledge they gained to new situation and different word contexts

How Can We Increase Students Engagement?

- Let students "show and tell"

        -Students come up and show the other student the             strategy that they used to solve the problem

        - Have a discussion to connect the strategies 

- When creating story problems: 

         - use students names

         - number sets that are appropriate for students

         - use context that has our students interests

Increase Student Engagement?

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- Lessons are more traditional 

           - Teacher "lectures" first 

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- Captures students attention

- Uses students interests

- Picture book and illustrations

           - Creates a clear image for students 

- Fun to look at