Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Kindergarten Math Interview
Today I conducted a math interview for my TE 402 class. My goal of the interview was to see how familiar the students were with measurements. This includes the tools they use to measure and the units. I was surprised to see that not many of the students were familiar with measurements. They did not even know what to call the scale that I placed in front of them. There was only one of the five students that was familiar with what a cars speed is measured by and how to find out how a orange weighs. When I asked her how she knew this she responded with "My mom told me her car goes 25 mph". Unlike the other students, this student has been exposed to multiple resources back home. This really showed me how important it is for young students to be exposed to as much as possible back home and at school. The more we can introduce to students the better chance that they will be able to retain this information later on when it is presented.
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I agree with you that kids should be exposed to things both in and outside of school. Because we live in such a technology driven world, kids tend to use technology tools to do everything, including solving math problems. I actually did this last night. My son needed help with converting decimals to fractions. I honestly forgot how to do this so I quickly Google searched for a decimal to fraction converter. Oodles of converters appeared and we found one to use. This was really sad on my part and I forget the importance of actually teaching my kids the way to solve problems without the use of technology since it is such a big part of my life and curriculum.
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