Submitted by: Deborah Stroop
Collaborators: Whitney deBordenave, Elementary ITRT
School: Short Pump Elementary
Summary
This lesson was designed to develop and enhance students Number Sense and was adapted from a lesson in Math Solutions Online Newsletter entitled “Twenty Questions: A Lesson Using the Hundreds Chart.” This lesson targets students lack of vocabulary when describing properties of numbers. Students generate questions, use logical thinking to eliminate possible answers, and apply deductive reasoning while using the hundreds chart.
TIPC Ratings
Research was not a focus of this lesson, so it was not observed. Research could be added to this lesson by having students research examples of math vocabulary in everyday life as part of homework, as not to add to additional time in class to the lesson. Or additional time could be added to the lesson and students could devise questions to research and uses various resources to find these answers.
This lesson is Approaching in Communication and Collaboration as students worked together to generate questions using an online collaborative tool called willyou.typewith.me. This lesson could be Ideal/Target if students collaborated with another class using this web 2.0 tool in real time.
This lesson is Ideal/Target in Critical Thinking and Problem Solving as students must use logical thinking to eliminate as many possible answers they can with one question as well as apply deductive reasoning to solve a problem. Many students were very strategic in their questioning when putting it in the chat box. Students were encouraged to use mathematical vocabulary to describe properties of numbers. Some were waiting to see what others asked before they posted their question because they only had a limited number of questions they could ask. Student videos demonstrate students thinking about their learning.
This lesson is Entry in Creativity as students were not given a chose of digital tools and creativity was not a focus of this lesson. Students we creative in their questioning, but limited to what tools they could use.
