Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Why Blog in a math classroom?
So many people think that writing is for all subjects but math. After all math is all about numbers and procedures with those numbers, yet writing about what we are learning helps us to cement the ideas into our heads. When our students write about the math they are learning, they are increasing their vocabulary usage, they are summarizing what they have been learning and they are able to find ways that the math they are learning can be used in the real world. A question that I am asked so often in middle school "When will I ever use this in real life?" Hopefully the use of this blog tool will allow us as a class to discover the answers to that question.
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I think that what you are talking about, writing in the Math classroom is so v ery important. So many of the classes I have taken stress the writing, yet the standardized tests seem to stress getting the right answer. This may be the way to incorporate the writing into the curriculum!
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