I was a Mathematics major in University when I got my Bachelor of Education (with an English minor), and have lots of experience with Math both theoretically and practically. Math is one of the subjects that I love (although in a much different way than History and Literature...) and I've loved teaching it since I was in high school and taught my friends algebra during our lunch hours!
JUMP is a very well laid out program. It takes an incremental approach to teaching math, taking very small steps and offering suggestions to the teacher of how to present the concepts in a real way. I've read John Mighton's books and find his theory and approach to fit very well with a CM education.
Last week I received this email from JUMP and wanted to pass the info along to you. The TVO program mentioned has already aired, and I don't know if the program is available in their archives.
(Sorry for the goofy colours of the text below. I had some trouble making the formatting work and didn't have the hour or more it would have taken to make it beautiful.)
(Sorry for the goofy colours of the text below. I had some trouble making the formatting work and didn't have the hour or more it would have taken to make it beautiful.)
Read the Recent Globe and Mail Profile on JUMP Math
The Globe and Mail recently published an in-depth article on JUMP Math, which includes new research results from a 2009 study done in London, England. Here is a link to the article:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/program-could-help-kids-get-jump-start-in-math/article1433199/
Please send this link to anyone you think might be interested or post it on Facebook.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/program-could-help-kids-get-jump-start-in-math/article1433199/
Please send this link to anyone you think might be interested or post it on Facebook.
Watch John Mighton as a Guest on TVO’s Your Voice
John Mighton makes a guest appearance on TVO’s weekly program Your Voice on Sunday, January 24, at 6 pm, to discuss “Discovering Dyscalculia: The Math Learning Disability.” You can watch the show at http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/tvoparents/index.cfm?page_id=483&event_id=2925 after January 22.
Attend the First JUMP Math Conference Coming in March
Save March 5 on your calendar for attending a JUMP Math conference in Toronto, Ontario, featuring workshops, speakers, and research news. Visit http://www.jumpmath.org starting on January 28 for conference and registration information.
Check Out Our New 2009 Edition Workbooks
Interested in seeing the results of our comprehensive revisions to our workbooks for Grades 1, 2, 7, and 8? You can get sample sections of all the workbooks for Grades 1 to 8 at http://www.jumpmath.org/new-2009-workbooks. To purchase the new workbooks from our distributor, University of Toronto Press, visit http://www.jumpmath.org/publications/order.
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Jennifer
ReplyDeleteDo you have any recommendations for high school level math since JUMP does not have a high school curriculum? I too have loved JUMP, but now at high school, will miss it.
Sorry it's been so long since you asked this question.
ReplyDeleteI'm at that point, too, with my eldest, and we're trying something new this year. We've decided to go with Teaching Textbooks for Math for gr. 9 (and 10, incidentally, simply because we had to make that decision in advance for personal reasons).
With Teaching Textbooks there is a textbook, an answer key, tests and answers, as well as an instructional dvd and solutions dvd. The student would watch the lesson on the dvd, go through the sample questions, and then do the assignment from the text. After marking the assignment, any questions that were wrong can be looked up on the solutions dvd and the area of difficulty in that question can be identified. It makes it a learning experience, because the question isn't simply marked wrong and left at that, but the question is worked through, step-by-step so that the error can be located.
Teaching Textbooks came highly recommended to me and if you go to their website you can see sample lessons, placement tests, etc.
For Grade 9 math we are using Algebra 1.
Hope that's helpful!