Big Numbers, Small Numbers

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 18.04.08

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Content Objectives
  3. Teaching Strategies
  4. Classroom Activities
  5. Resources
  6. Appendix
  7. Notes
  8. Bibliography

Decimal Place Value: A Culturally Responsive Approach

Krystal Lynne Smith

Published September 2018

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Notes

  1. Hammond, Zaretta P “3 Tips to Make Any Lesson More Culturally Responsive,” accessed August 10, 2018, https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/culturally-responsive-teaching-strategies/.
  2. Boaler, Jo, and Carol S. Dweck, Mathematical Mindsets: Unleashing Students' Potential Through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and Innovative Teaching (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass; a Wiley Brand, 2016), 27.
  3. Delpit, Lisa D, "Multiplication is for white people": raising expectations for other people's children, (New York, NY: The New Press, 2012), 21.
  4. Boaler and Dweck, Mathematical Mindsets, 26.
  5. Department of Numbers, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Household Income, accessed August 13, 2018, https://www.deptofnumbers.com/income/pennsylvania/pittsburgh/.
  6. Sowder, Judith, Place Value as the Key to Teaching Decimal Operations, accessed August 15, 2018, https://web.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/CIESE/place_value-decimal%20operations.pdf.
  7. Number Systems, Egyptian Base Ten Number System, accessed August 14, 2018, http://www.math.wichita.edu/history/topics/num-sys.html#egypt.
  8. Howe, Roger and Reiter, Harold, The Five Stages of Place Value, unpublished, accessed, July 15, 2018.
  9. Beckmann, Sybilla, Mathematics for Elementary Teachers, (Adison Wesley, Hardcover) 25.
  10. Pankhurst, Richard, An Introduction to the Economic History of Ethiopia, (London: Lalibela House, 1961).
  11. The World Factbook, Appendix G: Weights and Measures, accessed August 14, 2018, https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/appendix/appendix-g.html.
  12. Mathematics for Elementary Teachers (36).
  13. Packard, Edward, Little Numbers: And Pictures that Show Just How Little They Are!, (Brookfield, Connecticut: Millbrook Press, 2001).
  14. Eames Office, “Powers of Ten.” YouTube Video, 9:01. August 26, 2010. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0.
  15. Obreschkow, Danail, “Cosmic Eye (Original HD Portrait Version 2011).” 3:09. January 11, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfSNxVqprvM.
  16. Salyers, Casey, “The Story of King Henry,” YouTube Video, 8:42. January 26, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lstm7bBqxFI

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