This podcast has helped me be a better math teacher and my students improve their skills tremendously. Teaching long division strikes fear in all my students. However, using skip counting to introduce division, as Jonily suggests, allowed every one of my students to get this problem correct: 8.5/0.5=17. They all could skip count by 0.5 until they reached 8.5. It took them 17 skip counts. How gratifying to have all students get it correct on their own!! After listening to this podcast and attending free Saturday Math sessions with Jonily and Cheri, my teaching has changed for the betterment of my students!
This podcast has helped me be a better math teacher and my students improve their skills tremendously. Teaching long division strikes fear in all my students. However, using skip counting to introduce division, as Jonily suggests, allowed every one of my students to get this problem correct: 8.5/0.5=17. They all could skip count by 0.5 until they reached 8.5. It took them 17 skip counts. How gratifying to have all students get it correct on their own!! After listening to this podcast and attending free Saturday Math sessions with Jonily and Cheri, my teaching has changed for the betterment of my students!