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Puxi Grade 1: Subjects Combination on Math Teaching

January 3, 2017

Puxi Grade 1: Subjects Combination on Math Teaching

Math is a very essential and basic subject in first grade. In their first year, they must build up many essential math concepts which they have never learned before. The grade one leading teacher for math, Ms Chris Zhu, along with all the other math teachers, designed many interesting math projects. Some of these projects combined with other subjects, trying to encourage every student to learn math in a more reasonable and flexible way.

During IT class, the first graders were required to grasp some commonly used drawing apps such as Skitch, Drawing Desk, and YouDoodle. At the same time, students learned to create their own addition and subtraction math stories. The math teachers made a math project on an iPad called “Write Your Math Story”. The students were required to draw two different pictures showing one addition sentence and one subtraction sentence. Then the two number sentences were written down below the two pictures. The students were learning how to use Book Creator to do an E-book. The teachers combined the IT teaching with a math project and taught the students to do an E-book, “My 3D Shape iBook,” introducing the features and samples in real life about five solid figures.

In math class, students learned many different plain shapes, along with basic definitions of fraction. The math teachers made two math projects, “My Shape Collage” and “Fraction Flowers”, combining math instruction with art. The students made very colorful and creative shape collages and fraction flowers, all while reinforcing their knowledge of shapes and fractions.

After the students learned “Doubles” and “Comparing Numbers”, the math teachers instructed the students to understand these basic math concepts within a real-life background. The students were asked to design a voting paper about their family members and classmates’ favorite festivals and class subjects. The students also made an E-book called “Doubles in Nature”, which required them to find examples of “doubles” in nature.

The first graders have finished many interesting and creative math projects in math class this semester. The students have observed nature, improved their manual dexterity, and fostered their aesthetic feeling while doing these math projects. The students have improved their comprehensive abilities by, doing these math projects. Hopefully, more creative math projects will be waiting for the students in the next semester.

(Written by Jane Wu Picture by Chris Zhu and Jane Wu)