New semester, new course materials Bassarear/Moss Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers 7th Edition now has new content, including Virtual Manipulatives and Student Learning Videos. These can be assigned to your teacher math course in order to support student learning and practice.
Continue reading to learn how you can apply these questions and resources in your teacher math course.
Engage Math Teachers with Interactive Virtual Manipulatives
Students learn math best when they first work with concrete shapes and then use visual models to help them understand abstract concepts. Virtual Manipulatives are a tool that allows students to explore and investigate fractions and arithmetic. You can find the following Virtual Manipulatives in WebAssign:
Base BlocksPattern Blocks can be used to understand fractions and explore geometry transformations, rotations and translations found at chapter 10.
Base Blocks allow students to practice and visualize place values and arithmetic using bases 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, and 16.
Number Lines allow students to practice arithmetic problems in whole numbers, decimals and negative numbers.
Students can practice the rectangle method by multiplying fractions and mixed numbers.
These virtual manipulatives can be used in WebAssign exercises to reinforce in-classroom activities online.
You can better understand students’ thinking with In The Classroom videos
Classroom VideosWe have over 170 videos showing elementary students solving math problems to show how elementary school students think about mathematics.
These videos will allow you to:
Students will talk through their thinking in group lessons and one-on-one sessions.
Check out the mistakes that different grades of students make.
Learn how students use manipulatives to expand their understanding of math concepts.
These videos can be used as student resources or as problems with questions that students can solve.
New Practice Problems Improve Student Learning
Practice ProblemsPractice makes perfect right? Exactly! You can give your students access to a wide range of practice problems in algebra, fractions, ratios and percent.
These skill-driven problems offer personalized practice and step-by–step tutorials to help students acquire the math skills they need to teach future students.
To enhance students’ learning experience, you can use practice problems in many ways.
Pre-tests can be created for the course or for a particular unit.
Create practice assignments that are specific to a student’s needs.
WebAssign’s class insights can help you maximize the value of these issues.
How to Add These Teacher Math Resources To Your Course
Question BrowserAll the resources listed above can be assigned using the Question Browser or made available to students via Resources tab.
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