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The Stories Numbers Tell

The Stories Numbers Tell. Making sense of numbers and arithmetic operations. Welcome.

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The Stories Numbers Tell

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  1. The Stories Numbers Tell Making sense of numbers and arithmetic operations

  2. Welcome • I’m Sue Jones, and I've put together these slide shows and activities to try to help people understand math. These are mostly about what I call "number sense," which is understanding what numbers and equations mean. • This is especially for folks who find working with numbers frustrating or stressful.

  3. Language – symbols with meaning • Math is a language, with numbers and symbols like + and % instead of words. • There are rules for calculating with numbers, which are like rules for spelling. They’re important! • However, just as spelling doesn’t tell you what words mean, calculating doesn’t tell you what arithmetic means.

  4. We’ll do some calculating too… • We won’t ignore the calculating, but we’re going to focus harder on understanding what’s going on.

  5. How to use the slide shows • These powerpoints are narrated, and will automatically play, but you can still click to move forward. • If this is a movie, you can click “pause” and “stop” with the controls on the bottom. • I’ve also tried to include everything I say in the captions, so you don’t *need* to hear it. • If you want to hear a certain part of a slide show again, you can start it and click through to that part.

  6. What will I cover here? • I’ll start with a “big idea” from math, the relationship of “parts” to “wholes.” • We’ll explore the concepts of adding and subtracting in ways you might not have thought of. • We’ll introduce adding positive and negative numbers. (We will not subtract them yet.) • We’ll extend the ideas of addition and division to some work with fractions. • Finally, we’ll take a look at what happens when we include “variables” in this process to solve equations like “x + 2 = 4” • The goal is for you to be able to use these ideas every day, and also to be able to understand more advanced math ideas better, especially if you take a higher level course later.

  7. Let’s learn some math! • I’ve also tried to add a little creativity to things, just for fun. You’ll meet “Gravity,” an adorable dog, and the folks at the Mary Ellen Carter Academy.

  8. Your comments are welcome! • The Mary Ellen Carter Academy has a blog at http://mecacad.wordpress.com/ • I’d love to know what math you already feel comfortable with, and/or what parts of math you are worried about being able to do well in. Go to the blog and make a comment! (I’ll try to set things up so they don’t get posted to the public, though it’s not a site that people are likely to find if they don’t have a link to it.)

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