Elementary mathematics

students will attend to get bored and lose interest of them after a while. There are cons of math manipulative because some elementary teachers don’t like the new ways of teaching because there so use of the old ways of teaching they learn about to teach their students because it seems way easier instead of the math manipulative there using today. One disadvantages for elementary teachers is that snap cubes are extremely high price than any other math manipulative in their math classroom since…

I felt a little awkward playing this gig. There I was, a white teenager, playing bass with a band of professional black jazz musicians. Needless to say, I stood out a bit. Afterward, the drummer approached me, curious to know who my teacher was because he was impressed with my ability. The compliment surprised me, but I shocked him more so by informing him that I was completely self-taught! Throughout my life, self-learning has played an important role in a variety of areas. I was nine when…

Lippitt Elementary School is a public school in the Warwick school district specifically located on 30 Almy Street, Warwick RI. This elementary school houses students between the grades of kindergarten all the way to sixth grade. These students have implanted into their brains an abbreviation “RRR”, these three R’s stand for Respect, Responsibility and Readiness, helping the teachers as well as the students to excel in every aspect of their learning, having positivity surround them and helping…

2005. He holds standard certification in K-8 elementary education, Structure English Immersion and a principal certification. In the Spring of 2014 Curry Elementary was designated as a “D” school by Arizona Department of Education. It was at that time the superintendent asked Ken White to leave Fuller Elementary School, an “A” school under his leadership to transform Curry Elementary. Today, Curry Elementary has been recognized by the Tempe Elementary School district as a school that…

School counselors are advocates, leaders, collaborators and consultants who create systemic change by providing equitable educational access and success by connecting their school counseling programs to the district’s mission and improvement plans (The ASCA Ethnical Standards for School Counselors, 2016). A vital component of a counselor job is communicating with parents and engaging them in their child’s academic career. Counselors ought to inform parents of the mission of the school counseling…

Six Dimensional Comparative Analysis For the remainder of this paper, the focus will be on the Downtown Middle School North Star Academy in Newark and the Riverside Elementary School in Princeton. For comparison purposes, I will describe and analyze these schools from six different dimensions including educational philosophy, climate and dispositions, content, delivery, assessment and evaluation, and family and community involvement. Educational Philosophy Similar to other charter schools…

Some parents and students are calling kids at Cherry Park Elementary School “lucky”. With the struggle for students to learn and meet academic goals is not providing homework for elementary school students preparing them for higher education and the…

Manipulatives and Their Importance in Education Mathematics can be one of the more difficult areas of curriculum for young children and even adults to grasp. Due to this complex challenge that math instruction provides, mathematicians have tried to come up with a various ways to teach mathematics in the classroom that is both effective and engaging. In the early 1800’s, a German teacher named Friedrick Froebel was credited with the creation of the first manipulatives. Froebel’s manipulatives…

I remember when I was in Elementary School and every day we had time to do music, art, and/or theater both in class and as an extra elective. I know that personally for me this was my favorite part of each day when I was able to have a bit more freedom and express myself the way I wanted to through the arts. Every day this is what my classmates and I looked forward to, every lesson we got to use the arts or every time we went to our electives we loved learning and remembered what we learned…

are a good thing, they also feel that the state tests, in science or other subject areas, do not accurately represent what their students know (Lindskoog, 2014). The pressures of accountability for high stakes tests have had a greater effect on elementary science instructional practices than do other factors such as socioeconomic factors such as race minority or poverty. (Hayes & Trexler,…