- Collecting Data
- Data Relationships
- Probability: how likely something is supposed to happen.
I personally loved this section within the math curriculum as a kid, and so I pursued my interests and took a data management course in high school. Its a section within math that students are easily capable of seeing how it could be applied to real-life situations. I think this is a reason why I enjoyed it so much, because I got to see the application of it outside of the classroom. I believe by incorporating real-life situations into the lessons other than data management, it really engages the student and makes it more meaningful for them to learn.
Some fun ways to incorporate probability within in the classroom is to teach lessons based on the weather, sports such as batting averages, chances of winning the lottery, rolling a number of the dice and flipping heads or tails. Within our presentations this week, one of the teacher candidates had 3 different groups focusing on either flipping a coin, rolling a dice, or using a deck of cards. Each group had to predict the likelihood of the events listed on the sheet provided to occur. After each group predicted, they were then asked to complete the task to see if our predictions were correct. I thought this was beneficial because students were able to see more than one option if each group had the chance to rotate tables.
Some fun ways to incorporate probability within in the classroom is to teach lessons based on the weather, sports such as batting averages, chances of winning the lottery, rolling a number of the dice and flipping heads or tails. Within our presentations this week, one of the teacher candidates had 3 different groups focusing on either flipping a coin, rolling a dice, or using a deck of cards. Each group had to predict the likelihood of the events listed on the sheet provided to occur. After each group predicted, they were then asked to complete the task to see if our predictions were correct. I thought this was beneficial because students were able to see more than one option if each group had the chance to rotate tables.
Duncan Hall. (December 6, 2010). Dice. (Flickr Image). Retrieved from http://bit.ly/2gkWNry
Click here to see some great probability and statistics activities for kids!
Lesson Plans
One of the challenges I have faced within creating a lesson plan is figuring out some accommodations and modifications to use. Since the audience is not specifically stated, I find that there can be multiple of answers to this, and I am just writing down a broad answer. I find that creating lessons are beneficial. however without actually implementing them within the school it is hard to think if it is even a good lesson plan or not until we actually go into a classroom. This gives us the time to reflect on some things that worked or did not work as well as we planned. Another positive aspect to writing lesson plans is that we are able to look at the curriculum and become familiar with it. One thing that I hope we are taught is how to create unit lesson plans, this has always been something I have thought about.
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