Mashing Up Digital Manipulatives and Screencasting in your Math lessons
I recently wrote a blog post about using VoiceThread to provide opportunities for students to engage in math discourse and how this type of engagement allows students to Present and explain ideas, reasoning, and representations to one another. Listen carefully to and critique the reasoning of peers Seek to understand the approaches used by peers Identify how different approaches to solving a task are the same and how they are different During this dialogue, teachers can recognize errors in context and reinforce that they are natural occurrences that enhance learning. This post will support the same strategy but uses digital manipulatives and screen recording as the process to present and explain their math reasoning and participate in math dialogue with both peers and teacher. Math Learning Center is a website that offers free manipulatives that PreK-5 students can use to practice and demonstrate their understanding of a mathematical problem. These manipulatives are available