New Adventures

This semester I’m teaching a college math course 2 nights a week. We’re off to a good start!
We covered many topics week 1 such as different sets of numbers, significant digits, scientific notation, while also getting practice working with each other in small groups.

It was interesting to see the different methods the students used to determine which lockers would be open or closed at the end. There are many different approaches and we all got to the same answer in the end.

We next got into some skills like multiplying with the area model, working with fractions, and converting between and among fractions, decimals and percents. We worked in small groups to order a sequence of fraction/decimal/percent cards, and space them like a number line.

We started to do some calculation with order of operations. This task involves using 4 4s to build expressions equal to 1-10. Groups worked together well and remembered what exponents do, and the importance of using brackets.

We also practiced some critical thinking about which corner doesn’t belong with the others.

It’s been a busy 2 days of math!