MS8+Questions

KCK Standard Using (7th grade math): Understand, explain and use equivalent representations for rational numbers and simple algebraic expressions including integers, fractions, decimals, percents, and ratios in real world settings (M7.1.1.1)

21st Century Literacy standard to focus on: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Questions How can this be applied in the real world?

Questions: What basic skills/background knowledge do the kids need to know? What can we do as teachers to help students understand the concept of fractions? Do we allow students to use calculators?If so when do we introduce these? How are fractions, decimals, and percents related to each other? How do we convey these relationships? Should the students be proficient in each one of these skills first or should the real world problem be introduced first to lead to the understanding of the relationship of these ideas? How hard of questions will be asked? There are some times in life when you just look at the problem and can figure out the answer, and other times when you have to combine a bunch of different skills and work BACKWARDS? What real-life examples have fractions in them? cooking? pizza? cake? Getting ideas beyond the basic examples.. When in real life would you really need to convert between fractions and decimals? Making it relevant. How do you explain how you subtract a negative? When in real life would you subtract a negative? WHY are you doing that? What systems of thinking do we use? How do we get the quiet kids/lower kids to speak up and get involved? How do we get kids to stop being afraid of failing? How do we get them to think outside the box? What kind of questions do we use? How do we give the kids the wait time that is needed without boring the other kids? How do we get them to care? How do we show them that they need these skills outside of math class?
 * What kind of jobs would use these skills?**
 * How do we teach kids to think critically?
 * How do we get kids to think beyond the "right answer" and get them to problem solve?**
 * How do we divide up roles and organize them without squashing their creativity?**
 * How do we get kids to take responsibility and ownership?**
 * What community resources can we use to get students excited and make the problems seem real to them?**