Showing posts with label story. Show all posts
Showing posts with label story. Show all posts

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Spring Creek Mathematicians Tell Addition Stories!


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Mathematics is about far more than numbers - and certainly must include more than lists of rules. In her book What's Math Got to Do With It?, Jo Boaler describes math as
a human activity, a social phenomenon, a set of methods used to help illuminate the world
 Second graders at Spring Creek are exploring how mathematics can be used to illustrate simple stories. More specifically, they are crafting stories involving combinations of 10. Perhaps you can tell what time of day these were recorded by all the references to sleep.  /grin