Name of Strategy: Using Math Cartoons to Support Critical Reading Skills
Source: Secondary Reading Resources Portal (SRRP): Reading Strategies for Math Teachers
Link to the Strategy: http://sharepoint.chiles.leon.k12.fl.us/lcsreadingstrategies/Reading%20Strategies%20for%20Math%20Teachers/Forms/AllItems.aspx
Give a thorough description of the strategy and how it will be implemented. This should be a summary of the strategy according to the original source:
This is a way of promoting reading and thinking skills with the use of mathematical cartoons. Students are given cartoons to observe and then are asked to create questions based on Bloom’s Taxonomy. Classmates are given the opportunity to respond and then have the chance to explain the cartoon. The process of questioning and explaining help promote high level literacy.
Explain what part of the standard course of study is addressed by this activity.
The cartoon that I have chosen corresponds to:
Goal 1: The learner will understand and compute with real numbers.
Objective 1.02: Develop flexibility is solving problems by selecting strategies and using mental computation, estimation, calculators or computers, and paper and pencil.
Explain why you think this strategy will work. How does the strategy help your students learn?
I think that using cartoons as a source of reading material would be very useful in the math class. This would be a different approach that most students are not used to but they would find it interesting since math terms and ideas are communicated to them in a way they are comfortable with. Also this activity will be challenging their thinking and questioning skills which should be put into practice with every kind of material they may read. They would be using Bloom’s Taxonomy as a guide to their questions. I would have them try to make out as many questions as they could, working their way up the different levels. With this cartoon, I would have students focus on the difference of guessing and estimating.
