Week+7

**Presentations for Ch. 8, 9, and 10**
====This week was great! I learned a lot from the groups that presented this Monday! The group that presented for chapter eight, Fabiola and Suzette, presented the chapter using activities that truly let the students come up with answers on their own. Not to mention that the activities were like games and they felt like we were playing around with numbers and creating patterns. A majority of the centers had instructions, yet they did not require a teacher to be there explaining the entire time. My favorite was “The Designer’s Battle” because everyone is able to make figures (using a specific number) in a matter of seconds and be creative. I feel that this is something that is of great interest to the students because they get to play with geometric figures and they can make a figure to their liking. What is most important is that they have to count the amount of geometric figures to use every turn they get and this gives them a lot of practice. The group for chapters nine and ten, Natalia, Analaura, and Edgar, also gave interactive activities in their presentation. Both of these chapters were packed with so much information, but the group made it come to life with the exercises that were given. My favorite in this presentation was the “Bowl-A-Fact” because it is very exciting and it demands to constantly use your brain! Nobody is falling asleep while others are participating. The whole group is quickly thinking about equations so that we can cross out all of the numbers. I also enjoyed their activity about counting the corn according to our ages. This one was very interesting because it let the members of each group figure out a way to describe differently the sum of the corn. The neat thing about this exercise is that each member relates to it because you give your age and it becomes part of the equation! I liked how both groups did not consist of centers and different activities in each center, yet both provided really great strategies to use for math! These groups offered great strategies that encourage students to be interacting with one another and practicing their math skills. These are perfect examples of how to let students work together as a team and construct new concepts on their own. By the end of the activities, a class discussion can be started to let the students explain their thoughts and/or opinions. ====