Math Madness: Coloring, Reasoning, and Celebrating

Autor/in	Wasserman, Nicholas H.
Titel	Math Madness: Coloring, Reasoning, and Celebrating
Quelle	In: Teaching Children Mathematics, 23 (2017) 8, S.468-475 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1073-5836
Schlagwörter	Mathematics Instruction; Elementary School Mathematics; Grade 2; Elementary School Students; Mathematics Teachers; Geometric Concepts; Plane Geometry; Graphs; Mathematics Activities; Mathematical Applications + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Elementare Mathematik; Schulmathematik; School year 02; 2. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 02; Mathematics; Teacher; Teachers; Mathematik; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Elementare Geometrie; Planimetrie; Grafische Darstellung; Angewandte Mathematik; Innermathematische Anwendung
Abstract	As a parent, the author stepped into his child's class on a Friday morning to a room buzzing with activity. Parents walked around the room, coffee and bagel in hand, reading stories that their child (and others) had drafted, revised, written, and illustrated. Students eagerly shared their stories and drawings, cherishing the comments and praise from their parents (and others). Writing was a favorite subject, and "reaching a higher reading level" filled the hallways as students' goals for the year. All of this was great. The problem was the lack of anything remotely comparable in mathematics. So, the author's daughter's second-grade teacher and the author, a mathematics teacher educator, brainstormed ideas to do something similar in mathematics (at least once). They decided that this project would have to accomplish a few things: It must: (1) be a problem that students would work on, revise, and reason about for multiple days; (2) result in a student-created work at the end, that students' parents would have to explore; (3) be enjoyable; and (4) have some meaningful mathematics that related to what they already had learned or were learning. And so it--what would later be dubbed "Math Madness"--began. The project ultimately introduced students to graph theory--in particular, graph coloring. In this article, the author describes the activity and some of the thinking behind the decisions as well as some of the reactions to it. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. 1906 Association Drive, Reston, VA 20191. Tel: 800-235-7566; Tel: 703-620-9840; Fax: 703-476-2570; e-mail: NCTM@nctm.org; Web site: http://www.nctm.org/publications/teaching-children-mathematics/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01