I am glad we spoke about manipulatives in class, again. There are a ton of manipulatives out there and being a new teacher with a small budget I was worried about which manipulatives would be most beneficial to purchase first. From our conversation in class, it seems base ten blocks are a good start. I found Robin's advice to get the manipulatives I am most comfortable with to be very useful too. As teacher, we need to be comfortable with what we are teaching and/or what we are using to teach a concept because our students will know. It's always interesting using manipulatives for the first time, like the Mira blocks we used in class.
In class last week we started talking about our interdisciplinary lesson plan assignment. This lead my partner and I looking into G.L.E.'s that would fit our lesson topic. Our lesson topic is along the lines of having students look at media statistics and determining whether or not the stats are reasonable. Students will have to be able to read and analysis multiple types of graphs and numbers to determine if the Media is portraying a reasonable picture of the data. At first we were concerned because our lesson topic didn't actually have students doing equations or learning a new theory. After looking at G.L.E.'s and speaking with Robin we found that our lesson still focuses on math as it is a mathematical concept to accurately read data given from charts and graphs. I am glad I found this information out, because math class can go above and beyond just doing equations.
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