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1) The document discusses two tweets from a principal in Ottawa, Canada about innovative approaches to teaching mathematics and developing critical thinking skills. 2) One tweet recommends having students estimate answers to division problems before learning procedures, and gives an example of a student successfully solving a long division problem by estimating. 3) The other tweet discusses preparing students for today's information age by encouraging divergent thinking over repetitive memorization, and ways to develop critical thinking by understanding students' reasoning for answers instead of just correcting them.
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- 1. Michelle Martin Twitter Assignment-#3 Shannon Smith is a principal in Ottawa, Canada. She identifies that she like to play around with learning. She had some interesting tweets about learning. One was titled so long, long division. I found this very informative. In this discussion, the recommendation was made to encourage students not to memorize a mnemonic to complete the problem or to beat them up with the procedural process needed to solve the problem. A great example was given surrounding this thought. The information given encouraged the teacher to get to understanding division by utilizing estimation before they learn to compute. In the example there was a problem 700/20. The student was struggling to procedurally complete this problem, however when the teacher asked what is 100/20, the student answered five. The teacher asked them to now use this to solve the problem. The teacher relays it was like a light bulb being turned on. The student then wrote 5 down seven times and was able to come up with the correct answer. This encouraged the student to use their brain to find alternative ways to solve the problem. I thought this was an “aha” moment I could use in my instruction surrounding this concept. The next tweet I found very enlightening was one about creating divergence in your child. This tweet was linked to an article about preparing your child to enter the information age.
- 2. Past teaching methods were geared around the industrial age where repetitive, memorization of processes were important for the jobs that were prominent during this era. Today’s world is so much different and thinking outside the box is important with the jobs that are present during this era. Employers are no longer looking for the person that can memorize the answers for the standardized tests, but those people that are divergent thinkers. These type people are self- motivated, comfortable using technology to find answers and communicate with those around them. They are critical thinkers and want to find new answers and new ways to do things. This article discussed ways to encourage your student’s divergence. I found this very fascinating, because it directed you to look for the parts of the answer that were correct and build on that not the negativity that the answer was wrong. As a teacher the emphasis was to be on finding out the why’s of the answer the student chose, and then not just correcting the answer but encouraging them to look for the correct answer. This is important in developing critical thinking skills. I have always had an understanding that critical thinking was important, but this gave a good tool to use to develop a student’s divergence and critical thinking skills that I can utilize in my classroom one day.