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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Standards and Math Lessons
In the following essay there will be four lesson plans discussed from four different websites. All of the lessons concentrate on the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Standards for Number Sense and Operations. The four lessons will be analyzed using the following criteria; the NCTM Standards, the use of differentiated instruction and the use of manipulative. The four lessons that will be looked into focus on addition, subtraction, fraction and number values. The NCTM focuses on encouraging instructors to allow students to use their natural insights when discovering number sense and operations. According to the NCTM standards, students would rather explore concepts to figure out each time, instead of just memorizing formulas or using calculators to get the answers. For some students memorization does not always come easy. When students have trouble memorizing information then the students may fall behind in class. Students are using their number sense and operation sense, rather than just learning to add, subtract, multiple or divide. Standards are not the only thing that needs to be taken into consideration as a teacher. The teachers also need to get to know their students because each student has different strengths, weaknesses, abilities or disabilities. Teachers need to learn what skills work best for the students and how to incorporate them into the lesson plans. This is where the use of differentiated instruction takes place. The use of differentiates instructions means that the teacher needs to capitalize on the strengths and abilities and challenge and conquer the weaknesses and disabilities. Differentiated instruction refers to the alternative methods of instruction used in each lesson as well as the teacher figuring out what skills work best for each student. As mentioned above manipulative will also be
In the following essay there will be four lesson plans discussed from four different websites. All of the lessons concentrate on the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Standards for Number Sense and Operations. The four lessons will be analyzed using the following criteria; the NCTM Standards, the use of differentiated instruction and the use of manipulative. The four lessons that will be looked into focus on addition, subtraction, fraction and number values. The NCTM focuses on encouraging instructors to allow students to use their natural insights when discovering number sense and operations. According to the NCTM standards, students would rather explore concepts to figure out each time, instead of just memorizing formulas or using calculators to get the answers. For some students memorization does not always come easy. When students have trouble memorizing information then the students may fall behind in class. Students are using their number sense and operation sense, rather than just learning to add, subtract, multiple or divide. Standards are not the only thing that needs to be taken into consideration as a teacher. The teachers also need to get to know their students because each student has different strengths, weaknesses, abilities or disabilities. Teachers need to learn what skills work best for the students and how to incorporate them into the lesson plans. This is where the use of differentiated instruction takes place. The use of differentiates instructions means that the teacher needs to capitalize on the strengths and abilities and challenge and conquer the weaknesses and disabilities. Differentiated instruction refers to the alternative methods of instruction used in each lesson as well as the teacher figuring out what skills work best for each student. As mentioned above manipulative will also be
References: www.educationfund.org http://illuminations.nctm.org/Lesson.apx?id=276 www.teachthechildrenwell.com www.thirteen.org/edonlin/ntti/resources/lesson/m_half/