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Math CAMPPP 2011

Algebraic Thinking Session #4Nottawasaga

Working with Struggling StudentsCLIPS

Algebraic Thinking ~Session #4

Learning Goals:• Expose traditional and personal practices for

working with struggling students• Discuss different ways that students struggle• Explore CLIPS tools/activities as a possible

tool for working with struggling students

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Minds On: Graffiti

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Minds On: Features of CLIPS(see poster at back of room)• Focusing Attention• Interaction with Dynamic Representations

to Construct Understanding• Multiple opportunities for practice• Modelling with Representative examples• Immediate levelled corrective feedback

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Action: Exploring Different Representations Tool

To access CLIPS

a) www.mathclips.ca or

b) Math Camppp memory stickCopy the CLIPS folder to your desktop.

CLICK on index.html to start up CLIPS.

Allow ActiveX controls if warning message appears.

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Action – Exploring CLIPS (50 min)

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:

• Explore the Uber Tool in more depth• Explore the Integer and Fraction Tools• Explore the Integers CLIP• Explore the Linear Growing Pattern CLIP• Explore Fraction CLIP• Explore the Trig CLIP

Your Mission• Explore

• Post to the Cool CLIPS Collection at CAMPPP – Course– Which Clip/Segment/Tool– Helping Struggling Students CLIPS Feature (see back

wall)– How can it be implemented (e.g., whole class, small

group at lunch, Student Success, Homework, Resource Room etc.)

• These will be typed and posted on the Wiki

Consolidate: Reflection

• How might you use the dynamic CLIPS tools and/or activities with your students?

• How might you incorporate some of the “features” of CLIPS into your instructional practice?

Features: focussing attention, dynamic representations, multiple opportunities for practice, modelling with representative examples, immediate levelled corrective feedback

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Consolidate: Exit Card

Consider your experiences over the past 2.5 days in Algebraic Thinking:

List on the paper provided:

• 3 things that you learned about algebraic thinking

• 2 things that you have learned about responding to students

• 1 thing that you are still wondering about

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