Topic
for week of April 23, 2012:
Use
of Multi Flow Maps – Flow maps assist students with understanding cause and
effect. How have you used a multi flow map to show cause and effect in
your teaching this week? What was the main topic/event How did the
causes effect the event and what were the effects? Did the student's
Frame of Reference help guide the map?
Going
a bit further – Divide the class in half and have one half give causes and have
the other half give effects to an event.
Please
post your blog response to this topic by Friday, April 27, 2012.
I did a multi-flow map when reviewing solving inequalities with my Math Tech 2 class. On the left were Multiply with a positive number, Multiply with a negative number, Divide with a positive number, Divide with a negative number, Add a term, and Subtract a term. In the middle was Solving Inequalities and on the right was the effect or non-effect of the left categories.
ReplyDeleteI created a multi-flow map to introduce polynomials to my students. This was useful to help them determine the direction to take when finding zeroes. It helped bring together previous lessons on factoring, square root method, quadratic formula, etc.
ReplyDeleteI had trouble coming up with a multi-flow map but decided to use one with exponent rules. I focused on multiplication, division, and raising to a power and wanted to make sure that students knew what to do to the exponents when doing those operations. I may tweak this in the future because I am not sure this was the best use of a multi-flow map, but I do think that the visual helped students better link the exponent rules together.
ReplyDeleteI have a flow map for factoring that I have used in the past. I am giving a copy to my Algebra 2 students to help them with this final unit involving factoring. While it is not set up exactly like the multi-flow format, all of the different types of factoring problems are addressed and what to do with that type of format.
ReplyDeleteI had a hard time coming up with causes and effects to do with my math students. I chose to do a Multi-Flow Map with Fast Track Algebra 1 to introduce quadratics. I did the cause and effects when two linear lines are multiplied together.
ReplyDeleteI attempted to do a cause and effect relationship with the changes of vertical stretches and shrinkages as well as vertical shifts. The Algebra 1 students were asked to analyze patterns of various linear functions with changing leading coefficients in order to interpolate resultant features of the graphs. Very helpful map when used with teaching these standards. I still need to tweak the format for more students to establish connections.
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