Learning+Profile

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toc A learning profile is how an individual student learns.

=Learning Styles=
 * What's your learning style?
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Choice Boards
Choice boards are organizers that contain a variety of activities. Students can choose one or several activities to complete as they learn a skill or develop a product. Choice boards can be organized so that students are required to choose options that focus on several different skills.

For example, students are given a choice board that contains a list of possible activities they can complete to learn about volume. For example, students can choose to complete an inquiry lesson where they measure volume using various containers, use a textbook to read about measuring volume, or watch a video in which the steps are explained. The activities are based on the following learning styles: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile. Students must complete two activities from the board and must choose these activities from two different learning styles.

Cubing & ThinkDots

 * [[image:http://c1.wikicdn.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png height="32" link="file:yukon-math-differentiated-instruction/Cubing & ThinkDots© Differentiated Intructional Strategies.pdf"]] [[file:yukon-math-differentiated-instruction/Cubing & ThinkDots© Differentiated Intructional Strategies.pdf|Cubing & ThinkDots© Differentiated Intructional Strategies.pdf]]

Tiered Lessons

 * [|http://www.doe.in.gov/exceptional/gt/tiered_curriculum/welcome.html]

=Multiple Intelligences= Multiple Intelligences @http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/strategy/strategy053.shtml

Multiple intelligences refers to a theory of intelligence developed in 1983 by Howard Gardner, a professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Howard Gardner defines intelligence as the ability to solve problems, fashion products, or provide services that are valued in a culture. Based on that definition, he has identified at least eight different intelligences. They are:
 * linguistic
 * logical-mathematical
 * musical
 * spatial
 * bodily-kinesthetic
 * interpersonal
 * intrapersonal
 * naturalist

[|Big Thinkers: Howard Gardner on Multiple Intelligences] An [|interview] with the Harvard University professor about multiple intelligences and new forms of assessment.


 * Multiple Intelligences Assessment


 * Find Your Strengths


 * Multiple Intelligences Screening Tool - What Are Your Child's Special Gifts?

Edutopia.org

 * [|Video: Embracing Individual Smarts]

Linguistic
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Logical-mathematical
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Futures Channel

 * Rhythm and Math: Introduce them to world-renowned drummer, Ndugu Chancler. This six-minute movie contains amazing drumming, a breakdown of the mathematics of rhythm and a professional's opinion on technology and creativity. Watch the movie and download the classroom activity here: []

Miscellaneous
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 * [] Adding Music to Your Math Poems (Math Performance Festival)
 * How To Write Your Own Math Rap []
 * Kim Sutton's Triangle Song and Dance

NCTM

 * "Lollipop" Statistics by Dianne S. Goldsby from September 2003, Volume 9, Issue 1, Page 12 Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School Abstract: This article uses music to introduce statistics to intermediate students. Yukon educators can request a copy of the article from Paula.Thompson@yesnet.yk.ca.

PBS Teachers

 * [[file:Jazz and Math - Improvisation Permutations.pdf]]

Scientific American

 * @http://www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow.cfm?id=bridging-the-gap

Mathematics Teacher

 * Algebra Aerobics A kinesthetic approach to developing ideas of function transformations can get students physically and intellectually involved.
 * Walking a Radian Kinesthetic explorations of the radian in a classroom setting help students internalize the concept.
 * Early Secondary Mathematics: Teaching Sums of Angle Measures: A Kinesthetic Approach A different approach to teaching students how to measure the sums of angles of various polygons. They employ kinesthetic activities with easy-to-follow diagrams and instructions and provide activity sheets for recording activity experiences.
 * [|Sharing Teaching Ideas: Function Notation] Auditory, visual, symbolic, and kinesthetic approaches for introducing function notation in algebra. The use of a computer algebra system is one component of this lesson.
 * Sharing Teaching Ideas: Demystifying Systems A multi-day introductory lesson on linear systems in two variables that utilizes kinesthetic and technology-based activities to create mathematical connections to the methods of graphing, substitution, and linear combination.
 * [|Illuminations Unit: Human Conics] Students use sidewalk chalk and rope to illustrate the locus definitions of ellipses and parabolas. Kinesthetics, teamwork, and problem solving are stressed as students take on the role of focus, directrix, and point on the conic, and figure out how to construct the shape.

Interpersonal
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Intrapersonal
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Naturalist
(K-2 Mathematics Activity)