Phase I
i-Image
As a 5th Grade Math Teacher, I want my students to become mathematicians. I want my students to see, think, reason, act and communicate as mathematicians. At this grade level, I see growth learning opportunities in collaboration socially and academically, strengthening of number sense and perseverance in problem solving. To take it a step further for even deeper understanding of becoming a mathematician, I want students to be able to seek out and identify mathematical problems in the real world and every day life.
In this assignment, I chose the option of posting three images with a key idea from my teaching goal. This key idea is transposed onto each of the images. I hope these images visually represent different elements of students seeking and identify mathematical problems. The brain represents creativity needed to seek out and solve problems. Lots of data lends itself to mathematical problem solving and the last image of a traffic jam represents a real world problem where mathematics can be used to solve.
In this assignment, I chose the option of posting three images with a key idea from my teaching goal. This key idea is transposed onto each of the images. I hope these images visually represent different elements of students seeking and identify mathematical problems. The brain represents creativity needed to seek out and solve problems. Lots of data lends itself to mathematical problem solving and the last image of a traffic jam represents a real world problem where mathematics can be used to solve.
i-Video
I created this video to introduce my ImageIT project. My big idea is to create mathematicians out of my students and how they seek and solve mathematical problems from the real world. Images include famous mathematicians to show students they actually exist. I then included slides that show some mathematical equations and symbols to show students that mathematics is, in fact, manipulating numbers and the symbols that relate to these numbers. Finally, I used images from nature that show mathematical patterns, so students can see that mathematics is related to nature and the real world.
The narrative is a description of my “Big Idea” to make all my students into mathematicians. I discuss why mathematics is important and what it means to be a mathematician.
I created this video to introduce my ImageIT project. My big idea is to create mathematicians out of my students and how they seek and solve mathematical problems from the real world. Images include famous mathematicians to show students they actually exist. I then included slides that show some mathematical equations and symbols to show students that mathematics is, in fact, manipulating numbers and the symbols that relate to these numbers. Finally, I used images from nature that show mathematical patterns, so students can see that mathematics is related to nature and the real world.
The narrative is a description of my “Big Idea” to make all my students into mathematicians. I discuss why mathematics is important and what it means to be a mathematician.