Reflect:
- Video Link: Part 5: Importance of Visuals in Math
- Log in to Brainingcamp and create a task or four 😉 that could help students build their number sense and/or fluency through visuals.
- Brainingcamp log in: tsdmathteacher and password: tsdmathteacher
Consider the following questions:
- What tasks did you create using Brainingcamp? Describe them or, better yet, give us the sharecode!
- Aside from Brainingcamp, what other ways do you incorporate visuals in math?
- What caused you to pause and think during this video?
Respond:
After watching the video and exploring Brainingcamp, please post your response to one {or more} of the prompts above.
Interact:
Read your colleagues' reflections. Feel free to respond to someone by sharing a comment, insight, or interesting possibility.
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I use this strategy when giving my students a visual for division on a whiteboard since division can feel so abstract. I am a visual learner myself and if I can't apply the abstract symbols to tangible things, then I really struggle to understand the concepts. I often worry in 4th grade about finding visuals for numbers up to millions, but based on what I gained from the video, I don't think I always have to as long as I'm using visuals wherever I am able because students can use what they know to help them with what they don't know. I don't know if my thinking on that is factual, but it alleviates some of that stress I have around creating. I think there are still ways to visualize larger numbers, but the smaller visuals seem to be just as important to practice and do seem to carry over when it comes to larger quantities. I would love to hear how some of you use visuals with larger amounts if you have them!
Here is a short Brainingcamp General Overview Video that is pretty helpful:
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Here is a slide deck that you can use to help your students log in and explore Brainingcamp:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1n4j2D0ZhUj8N1IwS9WT8MPJkfKIPiHP3fQcAg4d69nA/edit?usp=sharing
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I made a simple division problem that you can model with base 10 blocks. We did something similar with division in 4th grade, except we used a t-chart and drew groups underneath to show dividing the number apart and decomposing the 10's to the one's place if that was needed. I tried to make this model in Braining Camp and was having difficulties, so I made simple groups to divide into. When teaching division a big takeaway with the visual model is really getting kids to understand the need to decompose the tens and then moving onto the ones place. When doing the standard algorithm this is represented in the subtract, bring down step. By visually representing this step the students were better able to understand why we need to keep going in our math problem and finish solving the problem. Another way I incorporate visuals in math is still drawing out pictures to represent word problems. Just because we are middle/upper elementary doesn't mean we need to stop drawing the problem. That can really help kids understand what they are being asked. It also helps them understand the different parts of a problem if its a multi step problem.
In my MAP groups I've been really trying to encorporate visual flash cards - from subitizing with dots, ten frames, or dice, to multiplication facts. I really liked the visual model in the video of showing multiplication using the ten frame for visualizing how to break down difficult facts. I haven't had much time to explore brainingcamp, but it looks like it's a great way to model using the manipulatives and giving examples.
ReplyDeleteI loved taking the time to explore Brainingcamp again because I had honestly forgot about it as a resource! It is such a great way to incorporate visuals during math time without having to have a lot of manipulatives on hand. I have spent time in the past making slides and copying things like coins or cubes and now moving forward, I will not be wasting my time with that thanks to Brainingcamp! I'd love to get my students using it on our class iPads! I practiced creating a simple task where students build two digit number models using base ten blocks and identify the number of tens and ones in the number. In the video, I appreciated the reminder to be intentional about manipulatives and visuals to make them most meaningful. For example, giving students ten frames along with their unifix cubes rather than just asking them to build with the cubes. This creates a better visual for them as they fill in the frame.
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ReplyDeleteI made some addition up to 5 problems using five frames and yellow and red counters. The students could move the red or yellow counters into the five frames and then add them up in the equation below. I am defiantly going to explore some more. We have not used brainingcamp much yet, but I could see it being a great center in my math rotations. I will look into some of the already made things that they have but it said they are more for 1st grade. We have been using visuals in class. We do a lot with five and ten frames. I try to use a good amount of manipulatives and I think i will start incorporating even more.
I appreciate a visual as a learner, especially in math! In our class, we are currently working on division. We started simply with dividing up candy. One M&M for you, one for me! Then made it more challenging with dividing a bigger pile into more equal parts of 5, 6, 9, etc. The process of them dividing also enhanced their understanding of multiplication,"oh look, 7 groups of 7 is equal to 49!" In brain camp I made a model using money it show how to divide with a remainder. You can't go wrong with candy or money!
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I used ten frames often while teaching kindergarten. I do find it challenging sometimes in third grade to find creative ways to use visuals. Any tips are greatly appreciated!