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Establishing a culture for learning middle school math.

Explore innovative strategies to enhance math education focusing on real-world problem-solving, language development, and cultural connections at Hannahville Indian School. Utilize advanced tools like calculators, SmartBoard, and digital resources to engage students effectively. Embrace the Medicine Wheel Model and Common Core State Standards to foster deep learning experiences. Follow a framework that integrates Michigan Standards and Benchmarks, encouraging collaborative learning and critical thinking. Discover effective pedagogical approaches for diverse student populations to create a vibrant math learning environment.

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Establishing a culture for learning middle school math.

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  1. Establishing a culture for learning middle school math.

  2. Hannahville Indian School • Potawatomi Indian Reservation • BIE Tribal Contract School • Michigan Public School Academy Chartered by Northern Michigan University • Tribal Contributions Especially Sports and Technology Rich Sgarlotti

  3. Frameworks • Michigan Standards and Benchmarks Grade level content expectations N.FL.08.05 Estimate and solve problems with square roots and cube roots using calculators. • Common Core State Standards Curriculum Crafter - Michigan 6.EE.9: Use variables to represent two quantities in a real-world problem

  4. The Medicine Wheel Model is used as the basis for activities.

  5. Center for Research in Education, Diversity & Excellence (CREDE) University of California, Berkley Standards for Effective Pedagogy. Strategies that work well with minority students (American Indian students)

  6. Joint Productive Activity •   Teacher and Students Producing Together • Language Development •   Developing Language and Literacy Across the • Curriculum • Contextualization •   Making Meaning: Connecting School to • Students' Lives • Challenging Activities •   Teaching Complex Thinking • Instructional Conversation • Teaching Through Conversation

  7. Talking about culture … If this was a strand of beads, and was 100 beads long, what color is the 100th bead?

  8. Tools- we use “mobile devices” • Calculator • Data Logger • SmartBoard • Laptop • Clicker • Virtual Museum • Robot • Digital Photo • Video • Audio • Communication • GPS • Weather Station • Internet

  9. Earl’s Wigwam

  10. REZZ RADIO

  11. GPS

  12. Data logger EcoLog

  13. Ecolog5

  14. SmartBoard

  15. Hannahville Indian School www.hannahvilleschool.net Click on Classroom Projects, Math Wall

  16. The Children's Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer. 1993. Seymour Papert It is often said that we are entering the information age. This coming period could equally be called the age of learning: The sheer quantity of learning taking place in the world is already many times greater than in the past… The most important skill determining a person's life pattern has already become the ability to learn new skills, to take in new concepts, to assess new situations, to deal with the unexpected.

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