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Boost Your Students’ Math Performance and Scores While Teaching Science!
One Day Math Seminar
Fee for the workshop is $199. Groups of 3 or more is $189. per person. Lunch is included.
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Science is the perfect context to help bring meaning to the mathematics students must learn. Data analysis, measurement, computational skills, and problem solving are all mathematical areas that gain meaning when used in a scientific investigation. Students frequently ask, “Why do I need to know this?” or, “So—am I ever going to use this?” This workshop for teachers K-5, is full of mathematical science that will answer this question for your students. Some of the topics this class will cover include median, mean and mode; data representation, interpretation, and computation (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division); problem solving; and measurement.
This class will focus on two essential ingredients to improve achievement in measurement, which continues to be an area of low performance for all students. This class will make and use a clinometer and protractor to measure, measure, measure! Number crunching will gain relevance and become an important skill to use with calculations. You will leave this seminar with a tremendous number of ideas to make math meaningful while teaching science in your classroom.
For the reluctant learner or English Language Learner, this integrated approach provides a setting for greater language acquisition. The more students read and write, the better readers and writers they become. Science demands increased communication that generates reading and writing opportunities.
Come spend time with Barbara learning to boost your students’ math performance while teaching science!
What You Will Learn:
- Two easy ways to improve student achievement in measurement
- How to use science as a vehicle for teaching math and problem solving
- Management tips for handling inquiry-based math/science investigations
- Effective strategies for improving student achievement in all content areas
- Ways to use literature and music in your math/science classroom
- Newly created songs and poems from Barbara to help you in your math/science investigation
- How to effectively ask questions in ways that create thinkers and learners
- Effective strategies for your English Language learners
Program:
- 8:00-8:30 a.m. Registration
- Research showing why science will increase students’ understanding and achievement
- Two ways to improve students’ understanding and performance in measurement
- Life science investigations that make mathematics meaningful
- Management tips for hands-on math/science investigations
- 12:00 -1:00 Lunch Provided
- The importance of thoughtful questions in creating thinkers and learners
- How do we use math in Earth Science?
- Blasting off to improve students’ math scores
- 3:00 p.m. Adjourn
Who Should Attend?
All K-5 Classroom Teachers, Resource Specialists, Curriculum Co-ordinators and Administrators should attend.
Cancellations/Substitutions:
Substitutions may be made at any time. All cancellations received the day of the seminar or afterwards are subject to a $15 service charge.
This Seminar Includes:
- Coffee and Lunch
- Door Prizes
- Extensive Resource Handbook
University Credit:
½ unit of credit from Humboldt State University is available for an additional charge. These credential/licensure courses offered are designed primarily for elective or professional development purposes. Clock hours may also be available - please check at the workshop.
What To Bring:
Scissors, marking pens, scotch tape, glue stick, stapler and camera (optional).
How To Register:
Call (800) 841-5193 ~ Or Use Our Online Registration Form: Either Mail, Fax, or Use Your Credit Card on Our Secure Server. MasterCard and Visa Accepted (US funds only).
