Albion College Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium

 Title: Integrating Hands-On Exploration to Build Student Understanding: Pedagogically Based Reasoning behind Including Hands-On Manipulatives in Secondary Math Classrooms Speaker: Cara Delaney, 14 Senior Mathematics Major Albion College Albion, Michigan Abstract: Teachers have to make decisions everyday- about what material to cover, what activities to plan, how those activities will be assessed- and good teachers make pedagogically based decisions. In math classrooms, abstract content can, at times, be seemingly inaccessible to some students. By including hands-on manipulatives into the classroom, students can kinetically explore content to help bridge their understanding. These manipulatives can be incorporated in a variety of ways depending on the intended purpose. Using an example of a movable integral model, some of those possibilities for activities will be shown and explained. Location: Palenske 227 Date: 5/1/2014 Time: 3:30 PM

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author  = "{Cara Delaney, 14}",
title   = "{Integrating Hands-On Exploration to Build Student Understanding: Pedagogically Based Reasoning behind Including Hands-On Manipulatives in Secondary Math Classrooms}",
address = "{Albion College Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium}",
month   = "{1 May}",
year    = "{2014}"
}
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