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Wiki Review Questions

1) This game can be found at http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/635.html.

This game will be used to teach solving 1 and 2 step equations. The teacher will get 3X5 cards, enough for each person in the class. Label two of the cards with an A, two with B, and so on and so forth until you have enough for each person in the class. Pass these cards out to the class. The students match up with the person who has their same letter. One of the cards has an equation written on it, the other has a number. for example: card 1: y = 4x + 10 card 2: y = 30 The students will now substitute y for 30, and solve the equation 30 = 4x + 10. You can have more than one equation on each card. After students have worked out their problems, the teacher can have the students come to the board and explain how they solved each equation. 2) I felt that this inquiry rubric was one that could work really good in my classroom as is. There are a couple of modifications that I must make in order to tailor it to a mathematics classroom. These changes would include: part A; Student engages in Mathematically oriented questions, part C; Student connects explanations to mathematical knowledge. The other aspects including using evidence to formulate explanations and the students communicates and justifies explinations are ones that will be integral to my classroom as a teacher of mathematics.

3) I feel that it is important not only to collect assessment questions to be graded by the teacher, but, also to have assessment questions for the students themselves to assess. These questions will be given often (perhaps at the beginning of every day). Students will be allowed 2-4 minutes to work on these problems, which will be practice from the previous days. After the time is up the class will work through the problems on the board together. It is important that students do are able to see the work through the problems as well as to never have a problem assigned that they do not see the answer to. This is why it is important for the class to work through the problems. After this short activity is finished, students will hand it in, not to be graded, but to simply be looked over by the teacher to see if the students are understanding the material. This information will be integral for the instructor so they are able to know who needs more instruction sot that no child will be unsuccsessful in learning the material (mastery learning).