Math Introductions
As we
continue our tour through the eyes of Meg Marino and her students
from Hawaiian Elementary Academy of Research and Technology,
we'll see how the teacher and students took their first steps
to participate in the "Connecting Math to Our Lives"
global learning network project.
Meg
and her students brainstormed ideas to develop a shared writing
activity to create their "class portrait" introductory
message, then wrote the message onto a chart. They learned about
latitude and longitude to describe their location to their new
international friends in their introduction.
Meg
modeled inputting the message into the class computer to send
via e-mail to the CMTOL Coordinators. After the coordinators
received the message, it was translated into Spanish. The bilingual
message was then sent to all participants on a listserv to be
read by international friends, and then posted on the Project
Website. Students observed their own message sent off via e-mail,
then they eagerly checked back each day to look for new messages
and responses from other participants.
What
Mathematics Means to Me
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Our
third grade class has twenty students; ten girls and ten
boys. We are all eight years old. Our teacher's name is
Miss Marino. Our room number is P-2. We are located at
34 degrees latitude and 118 degrees longitude in Hawaiian
Gardens, California, USA.
We
are learning multiplication, and addition and subtraction
with regrouping. We get tested every day on multiplication.
We are going to start dividing numbers.
We
are learning about planting and growing plants. We have
a plant box outside of the science lab. We are growing
carrots and chives. All the third grade classes will be
growing and adding vegetables for a soup.
We have a program called SFA. It stands for "Success
for All". We have to change classes so we could read
with students who are reading on the same level.
Ms.
Marino's Third Grade Class
Hawaiian
Elementary Academy of Research and Technology
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¿Qué
significan las matemáticas para mí?
Nuestro
tercer grado tiene veinte alumnos, diez chicas y diez
chicos. Tenemos ocho años. El nombre de nuestra
maestra es Señorita Marino. Nuestra aula Es la
P-2. Estamos ubicados a los 34 grados de latitud y 118
grados de longitud en Hawaiian Gardens, California, Estados
Unidos.
Estamos aprendiendo a multiplicar y sumas y restas con
dificultad. Y todos Los días nos toman prueba.
Ya vamos a empezar a dividir.
Estamos aprendiendo a plantar y cultivar. Tenemos un macetero
afuera del laboratorio de ciencias, donde cultivamos zanahorias
y cebollitas de verdeo. Todo tercer grado va a cultivar
y a sumar verduras para la sopa. Tenemos UN programa llamado
EPT (en inglés SFA) Éxito para Todos. Nos
cambiamos de clase para poder leer con otros alumnos del
mismo nivel.
La
clase de Tercer Grado de la Señorita Marino
Academia
Elemental Hawaiana de Investigación y Tecnología
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Receiving
Messages
Many
benefits of participating in the project include discovering
unexpected outcomes, such as geography awareness. After learning
about latitude and longitude to describe their own location,
the Hawaiian Gardens class became fascinated with learning about
the locations of their new friends from around the world. Each
time they received a new e-mail message, students would take
out their individual atlases and work in pairs to try to be
the first to locate the origin of the message. They kept track
of all the locations on a world map on their classroom wall,
labeled with a flag of each country and a small note with the
latitude and longitude recorded for each.
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