Download Effective Strategies for Math Education: A Master's Student's View and more Thesis Business Accounting in PDF only on Docsity! 1 MATH 6562 Concepts and Procedures for Instructional Strategies Master of Science in Education, Walden University MATH 6562: The Base Ten Number System and Operations: Addition/Subtraction Concepts and Procedures for Instructional Strategies Taking this course was very eye-opening for me and my teaching methods. Teachers must continue to grow as an educator, and each day is a new learning experience. I learned many new strategies to implement into my classroom, while it also helped me recognize the ones that I do use daily and how to better them. Working in an inclusive classroom setting, it is critical to give students multiple strategies to be successful. The strategies presented within this course are comparable to the ones I currently use. The first strategy that I find most important is incorporating modeling and the use of manipulatives. Students need to be engaged in their learning and have multiple opportunities. It is vital that students can practice the given mathematical task with time to ask questions and engage in meaningful conversations to become successful. Uribe-Flórez and Wilkins state (2017), "to provide students with opportunities to actively experience mathematics through different representations, teachers can use various tools as part of their mathematical instruction" (p. 1542). Within our classroom, we provide many mathematical tools for our students to use to meet the standards. A strategy that I believe I could implement right away is the show all totals method with addition. I think that students would be successful with this method as they can use base ten drawings. Students are also comfortable with place value and should be successful in setting up 2 this method when solving. The show all totals method does not require re-grouping, which is easier for students. I have realized that many students within our classroom have difficulties with addition when they need to re-group because they forget that step. The strategy I would like to implement within my classroom is adding up to find the unknown addend method. This method will be useful for students that struggle with subtraction. I believe that students will feel comfortable with this method as they can make a ten. It may take a little extra time because students will need to remember that though the equation is subtraction, they will solve it by counting on. I do anticipate some students to be resistant, though I believe others will be excited. I may have to work more closely with my small group students when introducing a new strategy. Many students are so comfortable with what they have learned from previous years and do not want to do math in other ways. I will remind the students that as we grow, the mathematical tasks do as well, and we want to find new strategies that will enhance their learning. Making connections within the teaching of the new strategy will be beneficial for students. Fuson et al., (2011) explain the importance of having students build upon what they already have learned. We also incorporate many singing and chants that our students love, and I believe it makes learning more engaging for them. When it comes to differentiation, I feel very confident in finding ways to meet all students' needs. I work in the third-grade inclusion math classroom, and we have students that are made up of many abilities. My co-teacher and I work hard to make sure that we find ways to make all students successful in math. When needed, we incorporate small group instruction and give students visuals, extra time, and a lot of modeling by making connections to what they have previously learned. Many of our students are not on grade level and require us to reteach the
