For 5/2 - Response to Chapter 23

What strategies can you use to help students understand and appropriately use the order of operations?

For 5/2 - Response to Chapter 5

How can you incorporate observational assessments into your daily lessons?  What is at least one method of recording observations?

For 4/18 - Response to Chapter 21

Data should be collected to answer questions.  What are some examples of questions that students might explore with data at the K-2 level? 3-5? 6-8?

For 4/18 - Response to Chapter 6

How is equity in the classroom different from teaching all students equally?

For 4/11 - Response to Chapter 20

Find one of the suggested applets or explore GeoGebra and explain how it can be used.  What are the advantages of using the computer instead of hands on materials or drawings?

For 4/11 - Response to Chapter 19

Three reasons were offered for using nonstandard units instead of standard units in instructional activities.  Which of these seem most important to you and why?

For 4/4 - Response to Chapter 18

Make up a realistic proportional situation that can be solved mentally by a scale-factor approach and another that can be solved mentally by a unit-rate approach.  Explain why you think these situations would be good ones to use with students?