Final Project
Throughout the semester you will complete parts of a portfolio.
Pieces
of this project will be collected and counted as your weekly
questions. A complete, organised, well-presented compilation of
all
materials
is due on the last day of class.
Your project will be checked for inclusion of all assigned topics and
will
be evaluated based on the clarity and accuracy of the explanations
given
as well as the overall presentation (neat, easy to find sections and
entries,
easy to read, well-written, & c).
It is possible that portions of this project can be adapted to be
included
in a portfolio for use when interviewing for teaching jobs to
demonstrate
your deep understanding of the content of the elementary mathematics
curriculum.
Somewhere in this portfolio you must demonstrate at least one (several
would
be better) appropriate use of each of the following manipulatives
Colour Tiles
Base Ten Blocks
Pattern Blocks
Cuisenaire Rods
Two Colour Pieces (may use colour tiles for this)
I encourage you to organise your project in a sequence that makes sense
to
you, as many of these topics will be connected. Connecting topics
using the following
themes
from the course will strengthen your project:
Extensions of Models for the Four Operations
Explanations and examples of how the models we learn for the four
operations
on whole numbers can be extended to other sets of numbers
Alternate Representations
Explanations of how alternate representations of values will allow us
to
do computations and explain various algorithms.