Early Field Experience Paper
Early Field Experience
Lesson Plan
Fractional Growth Factor
CMP
Math
8th Grade
Ms. Tanisha Wilson
Fifer Middle School
Tanisha Wilson
MTSC 403
Fall 2011
CONTEXTUAL FACTORS
Student Characteristics
There 28 students and they are in 8th grade CMP math class. There are some students in this are inclusion so there are two teachers in the classroom. There is a regular mathematics education teacher, and there is a special aid teacher. The students in this class have to take two mathematics classes each day, a CMT course and a prep course which will help them score high on their DCAS scores. They are from different nationality backgrounds and they understand English well. There is one student in the class who has a wheel …show more content…
Assume this growth pattern continued. Write an equation for the rabbit population p for any year n after the rabbits are first counted. Explain what the numbers in your equation represent.
3. How many rabbits will there be after 10 years? How many will there be after 25 years? After 50 years?
4. In how many years will the rabbit population exceed one million?
Do not give students the answers. Have students come up with the answers on their own, then they could discuss with a classmate, then the whole class would discuss the correct answer and why. While students are working in groups, the teacher would be walking around and looking at student’s notes to see their understanding. If you see that there is more than one approach to the answer, then call on the different students with the different approaches so there could be variety.
Post Assessment
The class would sum up what we did in today’s lesson by answering the exit cards with a question similar to the one we did in class. Students must answer the question in details. The teacher will explain to the students that the main point of the lesson today is to recognize that the growth factor may not always be a whole number. By the end of this lesson, students should be able to solve a problem dealing with exponential growth with the growth factor not being a whole
Lesson Plan
Fractional Growth Factor
CMP
Math
8th Grade
Ms. Tanisha Wilson
Fifer Middle School
Tanisha Wilson
MTSC 403
Fall 2011
CONTEXTUAL FACTORS
Student Characteristics
There 28 students and they are in 8th grade CMP math class. There are some students in this are inclusion so there are two teachers in the classroom. There is a regular mathematics education teacher, and there is a special aid teacher. The students in this class have to take two mathematics classes each day, a CMT course and a prep course which will help them score high on their DCAS scores. They are from different nationality backgrounds and they understand English well. There is one student in the class who has a wheel …show more content…
Assume this growth pattern continued. Write an equation for the rabbit population p for any year n after the rabbits are first counted. Explain what the numbers in your equation represent.
3. How many rabbits will there be after 10 years? How many will there be after 25 years? After 50 years?
4. In how many years will the rabbit population exceed one million?
Do not give students the answers. Have students come up with the answers on their own, then they could discuss with a classmate, then the whole class would discuss the correct answer and why. While students are working in groups, the teacher would be walking around and looking at student’s notes to see their understanding. If you see that there is more than one approach to the answer, then call on the different students with the different approaches so there could be variety.
Post Assessment
The class would sum up what we did in today’s lesson by answering the exit cards with a question similar to the one we did in class. Students must answer the question in details. The teacher will explain to the students that the main point of the lesson today is to recognize that the growth factor may not always be a whole number. By the end of this lesson, students should be able to solve a problem dealing with exponential growth with the growth factor not being a whole