Stonybrook
School
Enrichment Program
MATH
ENRICHMENT 3 - 5
Third,
Fourth, and Fifth Grade Classes
- One class
period, each grade level, once per week for half the year.
- Math enrichment
is offered in the heterogeneous classroom.
- Instructional
strategies vary.
- Realistic
ideas and projects are adapted to fit the existing curriculum.
- The full
potential of the student is developed through the use of higher
order thinking skills.
- Opportunities
exist to increase students' divergent thinking skills.
- Students
employ problem finding/solving strategies.
- The learning
environment expands beyond the classroom to the home and the community.
- To express
students' own unique ideas, images, and feelings.
- To look realistically
at problems and challenges and be able to deal with them in a
unique and ingenious way.
- To see existing
knowledge from new perspectives.
- To think
divergently, allowing more than one answer.
- To develop
a cooperative attitude through problem solving and interaction
with peers.
Sample
real life lessons include;
- Sorting
- Number
collages.
- Geometric
sculptures.
- Illustrating
mathematical devices.
- Timelines
- Computation
- Real
life measuring activities.
- Interpreting
and graphing data.
- Concepts
and techniques of data analysis.
- Probability
- Budgeting
and shopping on a budget.
- Banking
- Catalog
ordering.
- Fraction
quilts.
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