By: Samantha Lounsberry

Samantha Lounsberry — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 14:49:31 +0000

This is a good activity! It allows for the teachers to see their students have a number sense, and it it awesome to see each child is different in their prediction.

By: Becca Olson

Becca Olson — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 04:17:10 +0000

Nanette this is a really cool activity! I totally understand what you mean about the language being so crucial for a lesson like this. We did a similar activity in my class. We were given a sheet of bubble wrap and were told to estimate how many total bubbles are on the sheet. Our teacher explicitly told us to estimate and try to problem solve how we would get the solution. I feel as though if she had told us to \”guess\” or perhaps to \”predict\” we would not have attempted to problem solve has we had. I am a student studying to become a teacher and I have encountered several situations in my practicum where language effected the results of a lesson. It is so important to say exactly what we want our students to do and to make it as explicit as we can to avoid any misconceptions. One of my favorite memories of practicum in regards to language is when I was teaching them a lesson and asked the students to \”run\” back to their desk to get a pencil. I obviously didn\’t mean for them to actually \”run\” to their desk but they took me literally. I corrected myself and explained they were not to run but overall it gave me a very rude awakening to just how much students respond to our language. Overall, great activity tho!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:24:36 +0000

Nanette this look like fun for all even the teachers to see what the children guess is of how many in a jar.

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