Selecting, Sequencing, and Connecting: Using Technology to Support Area Measurement Through Tasks, Strategies, and Discussion
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2018
Publication Title
Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary STEM Teaching and Learning Conference
Abstract
This paper supports grades 3-5 mathematics teachers and considers how technology in the classroom can be used to support "low threshold, high ceiling" tasks and productive discussion. We present a description of a card-sorting task to support the “5 Practices of Productive Mathematics Discussions” focused on an online task designed to: be open to multiple levels of strategies, reveal misconceptions, and support students in developing more sophisticated conceptual understandings of area measurement. We present a sampling of strategies created by teachers (who were pretending to be elementary students) in past activities. We discuss approaches to connecting strategies for deeper understanding of area measurement.
Recommended Citation
Stehr, Eryn M., Jia He, Ha Nguyen.
2018.
"Selecting, Sequencing, and Connecting: Using Technology to Support Area Measurement Through Tasks, Strategies, and Discussion."
Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary STEM Teaching and Learning Conference, L. Millsaps (Ed.), 2: 74-79.
source: https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=stem_proceedings
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/math-sci-facpubs/727
