Journal Assignment 4: Discussing Articles from Teaching Children Mathematics, Assignments of Data Analysis & Statistical Methods

Download Journal Assignment 4: Discussing Articles from Teaching Children Mathematics and more Assignments Data Analysis & Statistical Methods in PDF only on Docsity! M316L - Journal Assignment 4 Due Monday, April 20, in class For this assignment, you will read and discuss three articles of your choice from the journal Teaching Children Mathematics, issues of which are available in the main campus library. You should try to select articles that relate either to a topic we have covered in class, or to a topic you have experience of teaching. Occasionally the Explorations book references articles in this journal, and so if you’re stuck for ideas, here are three: - “Third-Grade Students Engage in a Playground Measuring Activity.” November 1997. - “Image Maker: Developing Spatial Sense.” February 1999. - “Developing Spatial Understanding through Building Polyhedrons.” April 2002. State clearly which articles you discuss, so that I may read them for myself. For each article, you should answer the following questions: What is the article about? What does it say? Summarize this. Do you agree with the author on any claims they make? Do you have any personal experience of the subject of the article? Do you have any other comments on the article? Did the article tell you anything new? Would you take any advice it offers in planning your own class? In order to fully explain each article, I’d expect around a page on each. Don’t write too much - the length shouldn’t exceed four or five pages (unless you have gigantic handwriting). The journal will be graded based on effort and readability (essentially spelling and grammar). 1