Number

Willard Elementary is a Title 1 school that consists of around 72% free and reduced meal program students. Our school provides education for preschool, kindergarten through fifth, two functional life skill programs and a resource program. The staff at Willard also provides before school, lunch, and after school tutoring for students. The mission of Willard Elementary, “where students come first, is to create a challenging learning environment that encourages high expectations for success”…

knowledge, humans are the only creatures on earth that are able to contemplate infinity. We commonly talk about the infinite universe (which cosmologists now tell us is almost certainly finite but unbounded), we speak of infinite number series, such as the set of even numbers, and we use it metaphorically, as in saying someone has “infinite patience.” Time itself is spoken of as infinite, though it is always tied to finite objects which are changing and we can 't even come up with a coherent…

The second grade classroom I am in began this year the students in the classroom practicing their addition and subtraction in a one-digit numbers through various strategies, word problems, and diverse lessons. However, as the year went on my cooperating teacher had the students begin solving two-digit addition and subtraction problems. My classroom is set up for their numeracy portion of the class that they usually start with whole group lesson, then move into small groups to practice the lesson…

not imply a true understanding of number but that subitizing did. However, by the second half of the century, educator and researchers began developing did ideas about subitizing. Some believed that “subitizing was a more “basic” skill than counting” and others believed that “children develop subitizing later, as a shortcut to counting”(p.1).…

the students with different cues and questions played an essential role during this unit as they were able to help activate the students prior knowledge. The cues and questions provided when working one-on-one with students was also important as the number of prompting, cues, or questioning varied based on the student. Another equally important strategy was the use of Hands-on activities and a variety of manipulatives, possibly one of the most important components when working with this group of…

mildly annoyed that I didn’t know the school had an acapella group. Acapella groups have been close to my heart ever since I founded the glee club in my middle school and found my spirit animal in “Fat Amy” from Pitch Perfect. The group performed two numbers, both prominently featuring soloists. After spending about three minutes trying to situate the microphones, the group leader, Annie McLean stepped forward to introduce the group. The delay, however, was more comical than annoying, and the…

that do receive education at primary or secondary stages, Asians are considerably better at math than of the U.S. Educators, researchers, and many other personal beliefs have strongly made arguments over this given situation. Some stated that, the number system in Asian countries is intuitive which makes calculation very easy. Others expressed that students from Europe and US have way higher conceptualization math skills, than of the Asians. On the other hand, “ Why do Asians do better in Math?”…

numerical system where he assigns specific words to specific numbers. “Each word had a particular sign, a species of mark; the last were very complicated. I attempted to explain that this rhapsody of unconnected terms was precisely the contrary of a system of enumeration… Funes did not understand me, or did not wish to understand me”. In his attempts to make every number clearer, he decides to specify and assign a word to the number. However, the way that he goes about this assignment, which…

dark ages were not really a time of darkness. There were great advancements and inventions during that time. During the Medieval Times, there were many advances in agriculture, science and architecture. Some of the advances include the change of the number system, the change of animals in which they used to farm and the gothic architecture used during this time. There were many advances in agriculture during the middle ages. Many peasants farmed the land with different grains such as wheat,…

Counters are tokens which represent units or numbers, so they can be anything. Teachers can cheaply acquire or make a bulk amount of counters to use. Some examples of what teachers often use for this manipulative are: dried beans, popcorn kernels, jelly beans, colored paper squares, marshmallows or…