Thursday, 19 December 2019
Semester Reflection
Overall, I really enjoyed this semester. The readings were really helpful to me developing my philosophies as a math teacher. It reiterated what I already felt about the math curriculum and inspired me to try hard in my practice to make math accessible and fun for everyone. I really enjoyed all the practice with physical objects, as that is something I never really got to try with math before. I think it will really help the students connect with math.
Sunday, 8 December 2019
Indigenizing the math curriculum
This topic is of great interest to me. My inquiry is on indigenizing the math curriculum, and how we can do that with more than token projects.
The first thing that really got me thinking was about the grid system. I've been doing a lot of reading about how Canada was before colonizers came, and one idea really struck me is that when Europeans first came here, the first peoples had taken such good care of the land that they thought it was uninhabited. I look around now, and it makes me sad to think how much has changed, and how much we've lost that we can't get back.
I thought it was really interesting to learn about Indigenous ways of farming. I think it makes so much more sense. I think we are too concerned with timelines and dates, and we stop listening to the world. Learning about math history with various cultures in EDCP 442, I've really come to appreciate how integrated math used to be into everything. Now, it seem so disconnected and without context that nobody wants to learn it. I hope to be able to give it context and relate it to the world around us again.
This helped improve my thinking of math education. It gave me lots of ways to incorporate the values into more of my classes. Although it was very geometry heavy, it gave me an idea on how to branch into more areas.
The first thing that really got me thinking was about the grid system. I've been doing a lot of reading about how Canada was before colonizers came, and one idea really struck me is that when Europeans first came here, the first peoples had taken such good care of the land that they thought it was uninhabited. I look around now, and it makes me sad to think how much has changed, and how much we've lost that we can't get back.
I thought it was really interesting to learn about Indigenous ways of farming. I think it makes so much more sense. I think we are too concerned with timelines and dates, and we stop listening to the world. Learning about math history with various cultures in EDCP 442, I've really come to appreciate how integrated math used to be into everything. Now, it seem so disconnected and without context that nobody wants to learn it. I hope to be able to give it context and relate it to the world around us again.
This helped improve my thinking of math education. It gave me lots of ways to incorporate the values into more of my classes. Although it was very geometry heavy, it gave me an idea on how to branch into more areas.
Sunday, 1 December 2019
Updated unit plan
Here is my unit plan with 3 attached lesson plans. I'm still not really happy with lesson 5, but I wasn't sure about how to change it. I made some small adjustments, but wasn't sure what to change overall. The lessons that are complete are highlighted in yellow, but they are lessons 2, 4 and 5.
I did not link curricular competencies, but made my own objectives. I learned in another class about backwards planning, and I think it helps me to make the activities fit the goals instead of the other way around.
I made the unit plan in excel, and then transferred it to google sheets, so some of the formatting may be off.
I did not link curricular competencies, but made my own objectives. I learned in another class about backwards planning, and I think it helps me to make the activities fit the goals instead of the other way around.
I made the unit plan in excel, and then transferred it to google sheets, so some of the formatting may be off.
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