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MATH ACROSS THE
CURRICULUM Harper-Archer Middle
School Barbara A. Bieniemy, M.A., NBCT
Arn St.Cyr, M.S.
Instructional Math Coaches
Essential Question
How can I effectively implement math across the content areas?
Will my students benefit from math across the curriculum?
Purpose
Make math welcome and even indispensable across the entire curriculum.
Motivate students to take math seriously. To increase student confidence. To enhance student’s critical and analytical
skills. Increase the ability and willingness of students
to use math they already know, to facilitate their understanding of other subjects and to draw upon other subjects to improve their math skills.
Process
Collaboration Planning Implementation Integration
Payoff
Increase student achievement in math. Meeting AYP in math
How and Where???
Analyzing data Using patterns Using formulas Probability/statistics/graphs Central tendency (avg., med., mode) Correlation Designing
Content areas and Math
Math Topics
Language Arts /Reading
HistoryGeography
Physical Education
Art Science
Central Tendencies
X X X
Stats/graphs
X X X X
Correlation X X X X
Patterns X X
Formulas X X
Models X X X
Shapes/spatial ideas
X X
Measurement
X X X X
Etc.
History/Geography
Maps: scale, direction, coordinates Statistics/graphs: analyze data Predications from data
Science
Recording/interpreting data Predict from graphs/models Measure, calculate Formulas
PE/Health
Height, distance, time Data logging Statistics Correlation
Art Math Concepts
Scale Ratio Symmetry Spatial ideas Shapes
Johnny Apple Seed
Using the book Johnny Apple Seed today we will discover math, geography, science, writing and reading.
T-Chart Subject : Questions
Subject: Answers to the questions
What did Johnny do? Why is Johnny important? What do you know about apples? How do they grow? Where do they grow? When are they picked? How many different types are there? What is an orchard?
Venn Diagram
Frayer Model
Technology and Math
Georgia Online Assessment www.georgiaoas.org
Study Island www.studyisland.com Brainchild (online and handheld) I-Pods Unitedstreaming Videos www.unitedstreaming.com AYP math program
3, 2, 1 Three things you’ve learned in this session:1. 2. 3.
Two resources needed for math integration across the curriculum
1. 2.
One thing you will implement tomorrow to help students with problems in math:
1.
Success in math
Depends more on the student’s interest rather than the students’ perceived math ability.