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MATH ACROSS THE

CURRICULUM Harper-Archer Middle

School Barbara A. Bieniemy, M.A., NBCT

Arn St.Cyr, M.S.

Instructional Math Coaches

Essential Question

How can I effectively implement math across the content areas?

Will my students benefit from math across the curriculum?

Purpose

Make math welcome and even indispensable across the entire curriculum.

Motivate students to take math seriously. To increase student confidence. To enhance student’s critical and analytical

skills. Increase the ability and willingness of students

to use math they already know, to facilitate their understanding of other subjects and to draw upon other subjects to improve their math skills.

Process

Collaboration Planning Implementation Integration

Payoff

Increase student achievement in math. Meeting AYP in math

How and Where???

Analyzing data Using patterns Using formulas Probability/statistics/graphs Central tendency (avg., med., mode) Correlation Designing

Content areas and Math

Math Topics

Language Arts /Reading

HistoryGeography

Physical Education

Art Science

Central Tendencies

X X X

Stats/graphs

X X X X

Correlation X X X X

Patterns X X

Formulas X X

Models X X X

Shapes/spatial ideas

X X

Measurement

X X X X

Etc.

History/Geography

Maps: scale, direction, coordinates Statistics/graphs: analyze data Predications from data

Science

Recording/interpreting data Predict from graphs/models Measure, calculate Formulas

PE/Health

Height, distance, time Data logging Statistics Correlation

Art Math Concepts

Scale Ratio Symmetry Spatial ideas Shapes

Johnny Apple Seed

Using the book Johnny Apple Seed today we will discover math, geography, science, writing and reading.

T-Chart Subject : Questions

Subject: Answers to the questions

What did Johnny do? Why is Johnny important? What do you know about apples? How do they grow? Where do they grow? When are they picked? How many different types are there? What is an orchard?

Venn Diagram

Frayer Model

Technology and Math

Georgia Online Assessment www.georgiaoas.org

Study Island www.studyisland.com Brainchild (online and handheld) I-Pods Unitedstreaming Videos www.unitedstreaming.com AYP math program

3, 2, 1 Three things you’ve learned in this session:1. 2. 3.

Two resources needed for math integration across the curriculum

1. 2.

One thing you will implement tomorrow to help students with problems in math:

1.

Success in math

Depends more on the student’s interest rather than the students’ perceived math ability.