Five Minute Math with Digital Historical Documents

1
Five Minute Math with Digital Historical Documents
Engage learners through short activities that
use the Internet, computers, and/or projector to
practice Math skills while reviewing history.
Learn how to find these activities at
http//PrimarySourceLearning.org. Practice
creating a short tiered assignment based on a
historical source. Leave the workshop with a
short introduction activity that you can use with
students.
Unknown. (1912). Tyrus Raymond Cobb. Library of
Congress American Memory, Baseball Cards,
1887-1914.
2
Understanding Goal Math provides a lens that
helps us see our world. Investigative
Question How is Math used to comprehend real
documents?
Berry, P. (1986). Washington Monument, Fifteenth
Street between Independence Constitution,
Washington, District of Columbia, DC. Library of
Congress Prints Photographs, HABS(Historic
American Buildings Survey)/HAER/HALS.
3
Five Minute Math

• Knowledge participants will use
• Library of Congress resources can be used to
  widen and deepen students understanding of the
  curriculum.
• Primary sources facilitate efforts to
  differentiate instruction to address specific
  learner needs.
• Primary source analysis reveals student
  understanding and builds literacy skills.
• Skills participants will use
• Make connections between primary sources and
  prior knowledge through thinking.
• Recognize differentiated instruction in terms of
  content, process, and product.
• Use an understanding goal in a Learning
  Experience.
• Apply primary source inquiry strategies to
  current setting.

4
Science and Math Interpreting Primary Sources
from the Library of Congress

• Agenda
• Images Draw You In
• http//www.primarysourcelearning.org/db/LE/display
  .php?pOverviewk1193
• 2. Zoom-In Inquiry
• http//www.primarysourcelearning.org/teaching_mate
  rials/zooms.php
• 3. Investigations
• http//www.primarysourcelearning.org/teaching_mate
  rials/results.php?titleinvestigationsty2
• 4. Activity Maker
• http//www.primarysourcelearning.org/db/imagesdra
  w/index.shtml
• 5. Discussion and Questions

5
Introduction Images Draw You In
Understanding Goal Images draw us into a
subject. Investigative Question What do you see
in this image?

• Choose an image that
• relates to something that you teach,
• connects to a personal experience, or
• inspires questions.

6
Introduction Images Draw You In

• Add a question that would draw students into
  discussing the image.
• 2. Share your name, image, why you chose the
  image, and the question.

7
Introduction Images Draw You In

• Connect your image and question to a large scale
  understanding goal.
• Best PracticeTeaching for Understanding
• 4. Consider Best PracticeDifferentiated
  Instruction
• Content Library resource
• Process student investigation actions
• Product student outcome

8
Introduction Images Draw You In

• Activity Maker
• Go to http//PrimarySourceLearning.org.
• Create or log into your portfolio.
• Go to home page.
• Click on Activity Maker.
• Follow directions to create a pdf file.

9
Learn more about using primary sources to assess
student understanding
Zoom
10
Entry Points to the United States Civil War 1863
Bacon and Co. (1863). Bacon's steel plate map of
America, political, historical
military. Library of Congress American
Memory, Map Collections 1500-2004.
11
Learn more about using primary sources to assess
student understanding
Investigation
12
Discussion and Questions
Understanding Goal Math helps us see our
world. Investigative Question How can we help
students use knowledge to deepen understanding
and recognize different perspectives in the
world?
Berry, P. (1986). Washington Monument, Fifteenth
Street between Independence Constitution,
Washington, District of Columbia, DC. Library of
Congress Prints Photographs, HABS(Historic
American Buildings Survey)/HAER/HALS.