Tutoring Math Virtual Class

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Tutoring Math

Week 6

Assignment due Tuesday, October 13 by 4 p.m.

Probability: A Math Poem by Bob

Probability Probability

Knowing this gives math facility

More than just odds and evens

It is all about what you’re believing.

Look at the weather outside your door

Will the sun shine even more?

Will the temperature continue to soar?

Will you get what you are hoping for?

Flip a coin, roll the dice

Is your prediction always right?

You can’t control what happens with your might

But knowing that is a huge insight.

Like all math investigate

Figure it out! Don’t wait

Numbers alone are not your fate.

Know the odds and you will create

Knowledge no one can negate!

Learning Activity 1

Where is Math in Our Daily Lives?

1. DO YOU HAVE A BUDGET and do you save for unexpected expenses?

VIEW 00:00-01:13 "More Americans say they are living paycheck-to-paycheck" , CNBC

2. What facts in the report, More Americans say they are living paycheck-to-paycheck, did you not know or surprised you?

Play Spent, the online simulation about trying to stretch money and control finances.

3. Identify three choices you made while playing Spent that reminded you of the video's information about living paycheck to paycheck.

Describe each of your 3 choices in its own paragraph. Thank you.

Learning Activity 2

Making Math Meaningful using GAMES AND MONTESSORI LEARNING

View Motion Math in the Classroom

Point of Interest-- something piques the learner's curiosity and attention to the experience

Self Correcting Feedback-- materials offer self-correcting information

Continuous Learning-- every play of a game increases learners' knowledge, skills and understanding

4. Where in Motion Math do you see each of Montessori's Principles engaging students' learning?

Read this diagram and information to answer question 5:

Flow Zone diagram

5. Throughout K-12 classes, did you play online games or use a gaming system in classes to learn math?

If yes, how or why did the games keep you in or out of a Flow Zone?

Learning Activity 3

Math And Gender

A Photo of a Child at a computer

Researchers studying STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and math) have identified a marked gender gap.

Girls are less likely to major in these fields in college or enter them in the job market.

A recent study from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign suggests that "children can adopt beliefs from information they hear about their gender" through literature, television and media, toys, and conversations with adults.

"A girl who hears that “girls are bad at math” can internalize that message, believe she IS bad at math, and do worse at math because of it." -Maggie Severns, Future Tense, June 14, 2012

Hear How One College Is Closing the Tech Gender Gap

6. Which of Harvey Mudd College's initiatives to attract women into the computer science program and help them successfully learn might have interested you in the program?

Why?

7. If you were expanding this program to attract and interest all kinds of students in computer science, mathematics and engineering design courses, what would YOU CREATE THAT IS NOT PRESENTLY part of Harvey Mudd's initiatives?

Learning Activity 4

Stop Motion Animation Videos -- View Them/Create Your Own!

Image of a child's stop motion video View THE HUNGRY MONSTER in the Odyssey Bookstore videos.

(The monster in photo on the right.)

VIEW Video from Odyssey Bookstore

What Stop Motion Animation Video Will You Make?

If you are experienced at digitally making stop motion animations w/an iPad and drawing, use a new tool for this assignment!

Download a stop motion video making app. We use the FREE Stop Motion Studio

Stop motion animation INSTRUCTIONS on YOUTUBE

Log your time making a Stop Motion Animation Video as SELF-TUTORING hours OR TUTORING OTHERS hours.

8. Submit your stop motion video animation as a media file in your Canvas assignment.

Learning Activity 5

Learning resources can build our mindsets and help us learn!

9. Applying your knowledge of factors that produce growth and fixed mindsets (Assignment 1 wikipage), analyze in a few sentences your mindset about learning mathematics and how you developed it.

10. How might learning with multiple kinds of resources like those in this assignment-making a Stop Motion video, playing Motion Math or Spent-develop your mathematical growth mindset?

Not Part of the Assignment

Resources for Additional Learning

Toy Theater Multiplication Table: https://toytheater.com/multiplication-chart-1-to-12/

Picture of Qwirkle game board

After OUR Tuesday class, students may use this link to play Qwirkle online.

The free online version with friends or someone you are tutoring, here is the link- Qwirkle Freeware

Qwirkle - a game of MATH WITH NO NUMBERS and WE LEARN BY MAKING MISTAKES.

62% of Americans Are Still Living Paycheck to Paycheck (CNBC, October 31, 2023)

STEM Statistics 2023

More college degrees earned by women:

Psychology 78%;

Biological sciences 72%;

Social sciences 63%

Fewer college degrees earned by women:

Engineering 26%;

Computer science 23%;

Physics 24%

Hear Tom Lehrer perform his song, "That's Mathematics"

https://tomlehrersongs.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/thats-mathematics.pdf

https://www.earth.com/news/early-math-instruction-may-unintentionally-favor-boys/

We are unconsciously teaching boys differently from the ways we teach girls in all maths.

Angles Math Poem by Bob

Angles make my day

Guide my way

What do you say

Learn them where they lay.

Some angles are congruent

Find them and you are fluent

Some angles are supplemental

Note how they are assembled.

Learning angles is a tangle

Unless you live in a quadrangle

Angles cannot be cancelled

But they must be disentangled.

quad·ran·gle

/ˈkwäˌdraNGɡ(ə)l/nounGEOMETRY

a four-sided plane figure, especially a square or rectangle.

a square or rectangular space or courtyard enclosed by buildings.

https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/06/17/many-students-are-bored-in-math-class-and-want-less-online-work/

By the end of elementary school students believe they are or aren't math people.

Geoboard, MLC

University of Cambridge interactive geoboard

View GoldieBlox Commercial

GoldieBlox, a toy company determined to raise the number of female engineers, uses their innovative toys to draw interest in the STEM subjects in young girls, which is often lost as they get older.

Does this commercial upend the argument of the judges in the next story OF A FEMALE? For your consideration and discussion in the Zoom conversation.

Mathematics Visible Through Narrative

Who are these NASA employees?

Mae Jemison

10 Facts about Mae Jemison

Feb 2023 video interview w/Mae Jemison

Girls, music, math

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/11/1140858096/willie-mae-thornton

https://www.livescience.com/what-is-birthday-paradox?utm_campaign=368B3745-DDE0-4A69-A2E8-62503D85375D

Tutoring Maths Fall 2021 (2).docx

Animations and Storytelling from Young Writers Bookcase

https://www.exploratorium.edu/tinkering/blogs/getting-started-with-stop-motion-studio

A Ingham's List of Technology & Teaching Resources, Updated Frequently

Link to Using the Google Suite for Student Centered Teaching of Mathematics, Maddy Hill Slide Deck (Spring 2021)

Link to the Tutoring Math Digital Choice Board

More information about money and the state of our economy: https://www.marketplace.org

What happens when poor families are given SMALL guaranteed incomes monthly?

Find out what happened in this pilot study w/ Stockton, CA families.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/stockton-ca-gave-residents-a-guaranteed-income-heres-what-happened

A game for tutoring yourself or others!

Qwirkle: Math Without Numbers

Math is the least favorite of more than one-third of students, the highest unfavorable rating of any subject.

34 percent say math is least favorite in 2017 report What Teens What From Their Schools: A National Study of Student Engagement

See chart from Grant Wiggins

Math is only subject among all the least favorite choices in which the leading response was "I am bad at it!"

Today we are going to play a game of shapes and colors that promotes mathematical thinking and mathematical learning, both procedurally and conceptually.

It is called Qwirkle

Used to teach math problem-solving skills

Improve children's capacity to think logically and solve problems in novel situations

Promotes visual-spatial reasoning

Math concepts of sets with characteristics

Activities

Qwirkle consists of 108 wooden blocks of six shapes and six colors.
Briefly explain and demonstrate rules (procedures) for playing the game

Use game from the previous group to show how rows are built and points are scored

Create teams of 2 or 3
Ask each team to create a team name
Draw 6 blocks and begin game play

4th Grade Rules: Play as many blocks as you can during each turn
Ask team players to call the points as they get them

Play Qwirkle Against the Computer with the Qwirkle APP

Qwirkle App from the App Store

Qwirkle Freeware

20 Years Later, Humans Still No Match for Computers on Chessboard

What is the procedural and conceptual learning in the game?

Math TUTORIALS

Khan Academy, is an online tutor for elementary, middle, high school, and college students learning astronomy, biology, calculus, chemistry, geography and more, has the mission "to provide a world-class education" experience free online to everyone.

Video

View TED talk: Kahn Academy
Khan's original intent for creating his tutoring site completely changed when users he had not planned for found the videos.
Summarize Khan's initial intent for his videos and compare that to what Khan Academy is now.

Would you conclude that this change resulted because of a mistake, having a growth mindset,creating a change of purpose or something else entirely?
What is Khan Academy offering schools and students to positively influence teaching and learning? (View 11:00-15:20)

Interactive TimesTable from NCTM