Some questions that I am struggling with through my problem of practice is:
- Why do the boys play more with the manipulatives then the girls?
- Do I still need to be using manipulatives with children who are understanding the math concepts?
- What am I doing as a teacher that is causing this to be a problem in my classroom?
Issues
Some issues or variables that present a problem for me:
- Teachers/students interrupting math lessons
- Having students understand what the manipulatives are for
- Students wanting to eat the food manipulatives
- Students playing or building with the manipulatives instead of doing their work
- Setting up a math block that I request to be uninterrupted by other teachers or students
- Do I completely remove manipulatives, and just use hands and drawings?
- Watching other teachers with their math blocks. What are they doing differently?
- Having other teachers watch me teach and give feedback on ways I can be more effective
- Starting next year off without having students play with manipulatives and only using them for math ideas.
- Having the girls work with manipulatives, while the boys have to use other means until they can understand it is not play time.
- Removing the manipulatives from the classroom.
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