*Individual purchase cost is $5 per credit hour for courses or some districts may have a contract.
Description
Investigate strategies for proficiency in number operations, computing fluency, computing with fractions, and computing with decimals. Practice problem solving using number operations to make real-world connections.
Learning Objectives
- Identify concrete and visual models for addition and subtraction.
- Identify concrete and visual models for multiplication and division.
- Identify technology resources for modeling whole number operations.
- Describe ways to use contextual and concrete models for problem solving.
- Demonstrate understanding of mental math strategies to build computational fluency.
- Define estimation strategies for computation.
- Identify strategies for students to show they can communicate mathematical ideas.
- Demonstrate the ability to encourage flexibility in strategies used for problem solving.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the progression of fractions and best practices for teaching fractions with older students.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how to model and represent addition and subtraction of fractions.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how to model and represent multiplication and division of fractions.
- Develop lessons that will promote understanding of fraction operations.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how to represent decimal addition and subtraction.
- Develop activities that will promote understanding of proportional reasoning.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how multiplication and division relate to ratios and rates.
Documentation Methods
Participants must document their learning by completing the following summative.
4 Reflections - Learner synthesizes previous knowledge and course content in
order to develop a narrative response.
The summative must meet 80% of the established criteria.
Project Team
Author:
Developed by Beacon Educator staff.
Course Last Updated: 2023