Professional Development Session

I was honoured to lead a professional development session with our in-house feeder school. We looked at various ways to use manipulatives in math class.

We made a concept circle to show various representations with money.

A similar strategy can be used with base 10 blocks to represent integers

We can change what’s in he middle as well and look at fractions decimals and percents

We then used toothpicks and plasticine to build models of exponents, and see how x squared, x cubed, and x are all very different and can’t be added or subtracted.

next we introduced algebra tiles as another way to show algebra.

we took a bit of time and worked with tiles and the “bucket of zeros” for adding and subtracting and multiplying integers. Then we also spent time using tiles ro solve equations.

my presentation is listed in the professional development tab on this site if you want to see more! It was a pleasure working with such enthusiastic educators. We look forward to doing something similar next term with our other local feeder schools.