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Teaching and Math Journals


             The following research is based on one first grade teacher's observations as she experimented with mathematical journal writing to improve her student's abilities to tackle a problem and show the strategies that were used to determine the correct answer to the problem. The main question being researched is whether or not utilizing a daily journal in math is an effective tool to assist first grade students in organizing, grasping, comprehending and explaining various mathematical concepts in a written form.
             In order to conduct a thorough research on the subject, a daily journal will be introduced to the researcher's first grade class. As suggested by Chelsea Fortescue (1994) the teaching strategies will incorporate a whole group session of modeling the use of oral language as well as the written language. Familiar and comfortable skills such as adding numbers to ten will be the beginning focus. The researcher will demonstrate how to talk through the problem and illustrate the problem. Finally, the researcher will demonstrate how to answer the problem with written word. After this is completed, the students will lead each other through the entire process. This will allow the students to talk the problem through with each other adding in the important details to provide a thorough picture of the problem. Writing about activities or problems in the whole group will give the students the experience they need in hearing and seeing a written problem. Eventually the students will move on to their own journal recordings. The researcher will take part in daily journal writing as well. She will write down the problem that the students are trying to solve and the solution to the problem as demonstrated by the students. The researcher will set guidelines that must be followed for each problem and then graph the correct and incorrect techniques. .
             As stated in the book, Introduction To Educational Research (2002) this qualitative technique assembles data that occurs naturally and is regularly collected by teachers and administrators.


Essays Related to Teaching and Math Journals

1. Journal

Observation Journal Entry #1 • Teaching Style o In my opinion the teacher is pretty much laid back. ... This I believe can be the basis for better teaching, were the kids do not feel so much pressure. ... Since he teaches math he uses drawings for problems so that students can see the picture and the numbers to better help them understand the lesson. ... Even though it is a math class each student writes a conclusion for each problem.  The students are also assigned projects. ... With math a student needs to go home and look at it to make sure that they remember ...

  • Word Count: 528
  • Approx Pages: 2
  • Grade Level: High School

2. Math In Everyday Life

Teaching Math in 1950: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. ... Teaching Math in 1960: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. ... Teaching Math in 1980: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. ... Teaching Math in 1997: A company outsources all its logging work. ... Teaching Math in 2000: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. ...

  • Word Count: 6364
  • Approx Pages: 25
  • Grade Level: High School

3. Methods/ Mathematics

Teachers should keep abreast with journals and visit seminars. ... (Math is an area where mental discipline can be very effective). ... Good expository teaching involves a clear or orderly sequencing of information to be taught. 2. ... Concrete teaching aids are often used in the initial stages. ... Limitations Poor expository teaching leads to passive learners. ...

  • Word Count: 5657
  • Approx Pages: 23
  • Grade Level: High School

4. Case Study

She hates English, and math. Math is her worse subject. ... She has problems in math. ... She needs individual help in several areas in math and English. ... Her math objectives or as followed. ...

  • Word Count: 2541
  • Approx Pages: 10
  • Grade Level: High School

5. Standardized Testing

According to a journal in Student Test Scores, a Wider Gap, African-Americans score increased to 6 points in the SAT verbal and 7 points higher in math in the past 10 years. In comparison, white student's score jumped 11 points for verbal and 18 points higher in math during the same time interval. ... However, from the journal In Student Test Scores, a Wider Gap, an administrative president at Bates College, he believes "there's virtually no access to coaching and testing in some of these minority communities." ... From the journal The Question is: Are Tests failing the Kids? a tea...

  • Word Count: 1161
  • Approx Pages: 5

6. math disabilty

Children that speak different languages seem to have the most trouble in math because their memory works differently, their organizational skills are different and they lack the symbolic understanding that English speaking children possess. ... Here the problem of teacher interaction becomes a problem because if the teachers do not spend a lot of time helping and introducing the concepts of symbols to these students at very young ages the students will give up at fail at math later in the future. ... Children with this issue have problems with math because they have problems sequencing, hal...

  • Word Count: 2252
  • Approx Pages: 9
  • Grade Level: High School

7. Technology and Teacher Education

Journals such as the Journal of Research on Computing in Education, Computers in the Schools, and Educational Technology all published occasional papers on ITTE. ... They include the specialized journals, Journal of Computing in Teacher Education, Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, and Journal of Information Technology and Teacher Education, as well as the Technology and Teacher Education Annual, published by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (www.aace.org). In addition to the general journals on technology and education and the journals on ITTE, there are...

  • Word Count: 8566
  • Approx Pages: 34
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

8. A Rhetorical Analysis of "Titl

She is writing this article to be published in a monthly journal produced by Phi Delta Kappan. ... She goes on to say there are more dimensions to teaching then knowing the facts. ... Recent data shows that over 60% of 6th and 8th graders don't make it above the basic level on the state's math and literary tests (Lewis 2003). ... The weakest being that it takes the joy out of teaching. ... However her use of the other dimensions of teaching really gives the reader an idea of what most teachers probably feel. ...

  • Word Count: 837
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: High School

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