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Reading about numbers? Then it's likely your reading David Schwartz! Starting with How Much is a Million? in 1985 and taking us through googols, quarks and more, you can count on David to get kids thinking! |
English/Language Arts
Explore common misspellings
Author Schwartz tells the story of a misspelling that ended up becoming a household word - Google (should have been Googol). Use this Minute as the perfect opportunity to view and practice commonly misspelled words. Check out this guide from Oxford dictionaries or send students here for free grade-leveled spelling tests.
STEM
Explore Numbers: Place values
Use this Minute to reinforce student’s comfort with place value in numbers. Re-share the what, the why, the how it works. And toss in how to converts those lovely figures into words. A little practice never hurt anyone, and will likely help a whole lot of someone!
Explore Ratios and Proportional relationships
Talking about rations, conversions, decimals to percents and back again, percentage increase and decrease, and measurement of things over time and/or distance are all things that our students need to revisit on a regular basis to gain experience that translates into automatic mathematical thinking for life. Use this Minute to spur a little practice in your students. Have students that think they know it all? Let them come up with challenge problems for their peers. Or design a new kind of numbers game. Have some fun with the numbers.
Research Skills
Explore web searching: Keywords
Author Schwartz embeds the perfect nugget for issuing a challenge. He left out a key piece of information - who was that boy who coined the word googol? Set up a classroom competition of the keywords and have students race to discover which keywords will uncover this information first - a great way to reinforce the importance of critical thinking when considering effective search terms for efficient information retrieval.
Explore common misspellings
Author Schwartz tells the story of a misspelling that ended up becoming a household word - Google (should have been Googol). Use this Minute as the perfect opportunity to view and practice commonly misspelled words. Check out this guide from Oxford dictionaries or send students here for free grade-leveled spelling tests.
STEM
Explore Numbers: Place values
Use this Minute to reinforce student’s comfort with place value in numbers. Re-share the what, the why, the how it works. And toss in how to converts those lovely figures into words. A little practice never hurt anyone, and will likely help a whole lot of someone!
Explore Ratios and Proportional relationships
Talking about rations, conversions, decimals to percents and back again, percentage increase and decrease, and measurement of things over time and/or distance are all things that our students need to revisit on a regular basis to gain experience that translates into automatic mathematical thinking for life. Use this Minute to spur a little practice in your students. Have students that think they know it all? Let them come up with challenge problems for their peers. Or design a new kind of numbers game. Have some fun with the numbers.
Research Skills
Explore web searching: Keywords
Author Schwartz embeds the perfect nugget for issuing a challenge. He left out a key piece of information - who was that boy who coined the word googol? Set up a classroom competition of the keywords and have students race to discover which keywords will uncover this information first - a great way to reinforce the importance of critical thinking when considering effective search terms for efficient information retrieval.
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