Multiplication

In the article “Why Do We “Skip to My Lou,” Anyway”, the author, Nancy L. Glen, educates the audience about things such as how to teach songs in music curriculum, descriptions about the lyrics, and the history behind the songs in America. According to Ms. Glen, many party songs sung by children today have transited throughout generations in America, and originated from immigrant settlers not only as entertainment but as ways to socially interact in rural areas (especially throughout the 19th and…

to get done. It reminds me of when I was in Mr. Johansson’s math and science class in 4th grade. We came into class one day and there, on our desks, were the most dreaded slips of paper known to every 10-year-old in the world. It was time…for multiplication tables. We sat down and he started explaining what we’d have to do with those small pieces of Hell and as he was talking I realized he was that teacher. The one that tries to make everything…

Science defines the world that we live in. Anything from making a salad to constructing roller coasters requires the involvement of science. But we as humans have not created a way to completely eradicate the error of a measurement reading. Even with all of the advancements we have made in regard to technology and scientific resources, there is no way of getting an exact measurement. This is extremely apparent when looking at chemistry laboratories. When looking at a 50 mL graduated cylinder for…

the trials with music than without music. I think the results came out the way they did is because when your doing a math worksheet especially basic multiplication you have to be able to think hard. Trying to think hard while listening to music isn’t easy. Therefore all the results show that you shouldn’t listen to music while doing a basic multiplication.…

Ashley is cheerful and radiates positive energy. She has a natural ability to work well with others. Her peers seek her out regularly to be part of their collaborative group. Ashley is insightful during class discussion and want her to increase participation because her ideas can help push the thinking of others. Additionally, we want to continue to encourage Ashley to take on more challenging tasks with independence. In reading, Ashley’s interest in reading is increasing. Clearly, she…

Some students would miss thing answer and put it incorrectly on the crossword. I have done to 5 minutes about missing left to the square in a grid are skip answer with multiplication. I made sure to check their finished homework from class then changed scats. Same as before, I enjoyed observing students in classroom. I saw the teacher do activities for teaching vocabulary words and math. My students asked how I learned sign…

READING The Basic Reading Skills composite measures EE107’s ability to read a list of words and correctly pronounce nonsense words. EE107’s standard score of 75 falls in the low range at the 5th percentile, indicating that she performed at or 5 percent of her peers. Based on EE107’s performance on this composite, it appears that she will benefit from explicit instruction on word recognition skills and phonics skills. Reading Fluency refers to the ability to read quickly and accurately. It is…

In Bertrand Russell's words: “Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.” Math is a language of logic. It is a disciplined, organized way of thinking. There is a right answer; there are rules that must be followed. More…

there are different ways to approach it. The first is to give students a multiplication table and force them to memorize it. This is rote memorization. The second is to tell the students that multiplication is the addition of a number to itself as many times as another number specifies. This is the general pattern. The third is to guide the student through a particular problem and explain to them the machination of multiplication. This is providing particular examples. The most useful of the…

“Math Facts Contest” where the students had to know their multiplication tables by heart. That night I went to an office supply store and bought a pack of multiplication times table flashcards and I printed off some worksheets that we could work together on. We studied a little bit every outing, we made little games out of it she wouldn't feel like she was at school when it was the weekend. A few weeks into Hope and I studying multiplication together she lit up when she told me that she got…