Understanding strategies and order for Additive and Multiplicative Reasoning, LaCroix & Gingras, Summer 2019

Note: Please register directly with the Vermont Higher Education Collaborative (VT-HEC.) VT-HEC will then give you the link to Castleton's online registration form. All payments are payable and due to VT-HEC.

Course Description

This course will focus primarily on additive and multiplicative reasoning. The use of routines and mathematical language in the elementary grades, while focusing on the development of tools, strategies and curriculum to best reach all students at the elementary school level.  Each day there will be elementary school topics which will be focused on.  Participants will learn about patterns and routines to introduce topics and how patterns and techniques learned in Elementary Grades Math Lab can be used to enhance the learning outcomes of students.

Audience:

K-5 math teachers

Course Goals & Objectives

To provide teachers with strategies on how to create lesson plans to teach a unit on additive and multiplicative reasoning using concrete models, pictorial models and abstract models.

Course Objectives: Students will be able to recognize the ways of knowing in teaching a given unit in the area of additive and multiplicative reasoning and start creating  a unit using the strategies and the structure of a math class that have been taught in this course.

Required Texts

Juli K. Dixon,  Edward C. Nolan, Thomasenia Lott Adams, Jennifer M. Tobias, and Guy Barmoha. Making Sense of Mathematics for Teaching grades 3-5.  Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree, 2016. Print.

Juli K. Dixon, Edward C. Nolan, Thomasenia Lott Adams, Lisa A. Brooks, Tashana D. Howse.  Making Sense of Mathematics for Teaching grades k-2.  Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree, 2016. Print.

Other Information Not Listed Above

Assignments:

• Students will collaborate with others to create a unit plan using the strategies and techniques demonstrated in the coursework and then present the unit on October
• Observe and critique another math teacher’s lesson in order to further develop teaching practice. (will be done as a group on the follow up date)
• Students will apply new learning in their own classrooms, document and share out.
• Course readings and conversations around the concepts of additive and multiplicative reasoning.
• Students will work on developing through the progressions from Kindergarten through 5th grade. Strategies for teaching addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division will be shown and progressed through topics covered in the elementary grades.
• Students will complete a portfolio of elementary school math questions where they use multiple strategies to solve problems and model strategies of both conceptual and procedural methods.

Students taking the course for credit will be asked to do an additional writing assignment about the necessity of both conceptual and procedural understanding of mathematics and how to implement into an inclusive classroom. 

Evaluation:

• Reflections 20%
•                 Lesson plans 30%
•                 Class Participation 30%
•                 Class Attendance 20%

For additional course information

Angela LaCroix
(802) 272-5506

Kathy Gingras

(802) 433-1176

For additional registration information

Julie Medose

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