Monday, February 14, 2011

Chapter 2 ?

The visual model that I recently used in Math class seemed quite helpful for many to understand the meaning of division, in a picture. The top area has a large center bubble with an amount written in it such as $100.00 and then you draw lines coming out of it- below it would be the number of bubbles you are dividing that money into or by- such as 5 bubbles and then they can see that if you take the $100. and spilt it or divide it by all 5 people/bubbles, each would get $20.00. This seems so simplistic but we often forget that is exactly what many students need to see.

1 comment:

Kathryn said...

Visuals ARE very important in Math Gerri. No matter if kids are in first grade, fourth grade or sixth grade I think they can all benefit from some sort of visual no matter what concept you are teaching. I like the idea of the visual you use to help students with division.