As a 5th-Grade Math teacher, I enjoyed listening to this podcast of Laney Sammons (author of Guided Math). She described Math Stretches as being another version of a math warmup where you have all students beginning math class by completing an activity where each student will have input and then you discuss their input in "math huddle." For example, you could have a question on the board that says, "draw a polygon" and then you could give each child a post-it note. They each write their own response and add it to the board and then at the end you go through and talk about the responses and what makes a shape a polygon. This was a great podcast for me to have found!
http://www.shelleducation.com/podcasts/Math_Stretches_Podcast_Final.mp3
I like that idea. It makes everyone feel included without the stress of sharing out loud!
ReplyDeleteI like the instructional content podcast you discuss in this post. I also noticed you created a Voki. Did you use a default voice on Voki or was it created by Vocaroo?
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