The TIMS report, an international research report on math and science achievement, found students in the U.S. scoring very low in the area of measurement and geometry when compared with students in other countries. Many states that do statewide testing, Texas, Florida and California are also finding low scores in this area. Schools and classroom teachers are being challenged to address these areas of weakness. This workshop will support you in doing just that...becoming competent and confident in teaching measurement and geometry!!

When teachers are faced with teaching measurement and geometry their problems are multifaceted. The resource support that most teachers rely on (the text), usually puts measurement and geometry at the end of the book, and does not provide rich, engaging, interactive experiences for the learner. Students can find measurement and geometry an exciting area of study if taught correctly.

Come spend a day with Barbara Novelli exploring how to make the complex topics of measurement and geometry both student-friendly and teacher-friendly. Measurement should be connected to real world applications to be meaningful. The only way to develop an informal justification in geometry is through quantifying geometric shapes...measuring them!!

Barbara will explore the big ideas in geometry such as similarity and congruency, properties of both 2 and 3 dimensional shapes and the relationship between shapes with easy and classroom tested activities. Barbara’s class is a wonderful way for teachers to have fun while exploring activities and ideas that you can use immediately in your classroom to improve student achievement in measurement and geometry.

Barbara will have easy to use "Learning Centers" at the workshop that will allow you to experience Hands On – Minds On activities that make teaching geometry entertaining and exciting!

What You Will Learn:

• Teacher and student friendly ways to teach geometry and measurement to support student achievement!
• Effective strategies and suggestions on how to use manipulatives and measurement to teach the relationship among both 2 and 3-D shapes.
• How to integrate geometry and measurement!
• Easy to facilitate Learning Centers that teach geometry and measurement.
• Powerful ways to use geometry and measurement to teach vocabulary and english language development.
• How to ask thoughtful questions and get thoughtful answers in your math lessons.
• How to use art and literature to support your geometry and measurement units!
• An understanding of how kids learn geometry and measurement.
• A fun and fascinating way to teach proportional reasoning and use measurement to justify your reasoning.
• Ways to integrate other mathematics such as place value, fractions and decimals.

Program:

8:00-8:30 a.m. Registration/Coffee & Snack
 

Morning: Developing Your Own Content Knowledge

Understanding the Research behind how we Develop

Concepts and Skills in Geometry and Measurement

From 3-D to 2-D using Measurement to Develop Understandings

Teaching the vocabulary of Geometry and Measurement to

support English Language development
 

Morning Break: Experience Barbara’s Measurement and Geometry Learning Centers

Bookmaking to Develop Measurement Skills and Geometric

Understandings such as Spatial Sense and Symmetry

Games that help teach Measurement and Geometry

Easy to Make: Student Tools - Now Let’s Use them!
 

11:45-12:45 Lunch Provided
 

Afternoon: Similarity and Congruency: The Measurement Way

Proportional Reasoning and Fractions using Art

Using Literature to make your Geometry and Measurement Units come alive as well as support the English Language Acquisition
 

3:00 p.m. Adjourn

Who Should Attend?

Cancellations/Substitutions:

This Seminar Includes:

•Door Prizes

•Extensive Resource Handbook

University Credit:

What To Bring:

Scissors, marking pens, scotch tape, glue stick and camera (optional).