MATHia and More!
Hello families and
students. This is our first weekly communication home through the school page,
as we go on throughout the year, these posts may evolve.
The goal is to have
at least one of these posts a week that has a general overview of the week and
what our goals are. Other pop up posts throughout the week will be for specific
details.
So let's get this
started.
This is a B Week,
meaning Monday, Wednesday, and Friday are on the B Schedule.
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Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
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9/19
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9/20
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9/21
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9/22
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9/23
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12th
B Day
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13th
A Day
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13th
B Day
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14th
A Day
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14th
B Day
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Introduction
to
MATHia
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The
County Fair
Activity
1.2 and 1.3
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The
County Fair
Activity
1.2 and 1.3
Meet
the Teacher
Night
6-8
PM
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MATHia
BUI PTO
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MATHia
BUI PTO
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In week 6, we
continue our work with exploring how systems of equations can be used to
represent situations we come across in our day to day lives as well as
introducing the math practice software, MATHia. I will be out of the classroom
Thursday 9/22 through Monday 9/26, returning next Tuesday 9/27; expect the
weekly post some time around Wednesday before the "Meet the Teacher"
night.
MATHia is a great
practice tool created by Carnegie Learning, from where our lesson curriculum
also comes from, that provide a digital tutor that learns where you struggle
and provides guiding messages as a teacher would. By being a digital tutor,
students are able to get quality help without raising their hands. If students
are still struggling, the system will tell me to go check on that student
specifically to provide more personalized guidance.
With MATHia, we are
now completing our average 2-week cycle. Carnegie Learning's intended design
for learning is in 2 parts: Learn Together and Learn Individually. 60% of the
time, we are learning together in small group explorations through the Texas Math
Solution Lesson Materials. The other 40% of the time is individually with
MATHia and small group pull outs that I lead. With our 2-week cycle, each class
meets at most 5 times, meaning 3 days will be spent doing Learn Together and 2
days doing Learn Individual. Every now and then, we will have moments where
we'll take on an extra day or so of MATHia to provide more algebraic foundation
as we've had inconsistent math practice during the past 2 school years.
Some times we'll meet
the new math concepts during the Learn Together with the group exploration and
then continue to practice it with MATHia; and other times, students will have
had exposure to the concept through MATHia and bring to the Learn Together a
higher level of understanding.
We'll be using MATHia
at minimum on Thursdays and Fridays of every week. I'm throwing around the idea
of also having MATHia being the main activity on days where a substitute is
teaching too; that way students have personalized practice grow as mathematicians
with both the digital tutor that knows them and the math knowledge the
substitute brings.
Anywho, this is
already pretty long, hopefully future communications will be shorter. I hope to
see y'all this Wednesday from 6-8 PM at Meet the Teacher!
Warm Regards,
Mr. Bui