Using Shel Silverstein's Works To Engage Students In Mathematics
Edgar Cisneros
English 2306
James
October 31, 2013
Annotated Bibliography
Bay-Williams, Jennifer M. "Poetry in Motion: Using Shel Silverstein 's Works to Engage Students in Mathematics." Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School 10.8 (April 2005): 386-93. This article shows a unique way of introducing Shel Silverstein’s poem in the math educational system. In this article the instructor gives a challenging but very fun and interactive way to learn math. Throughout the article, the author states that kids are learning so many forms of math such as; probability, circumference, linear functions, similar triangles, proportional reasoning and algebra. It is a very unique way to teach kids, but according to the article the way the lessons are combined with …show more content…
Bay-Williams. The reason there is a similarity because in this current article, the author, Jamie Reiser, is uniquely teaching students through poetry. The article continues to show how much this method of teaching through poetry becomes something the students begin to favor. The differences between the two articles are the age groups of the kids, which in the article “Success with Silverstein” the students are in 4th grade. In that time of being a child growing up subjects are not the only things being taught, but also qualities, confidence, ethics, and morals that will also be developing while getting older. The author writes how she does an experiment with the kids while developing their oral expression skills. The author makes the kids present but before presenting the kids are introduced to poems by Shel Silverstein, similar to “Poetry in Motion: Using Shel Silverstein 's Works to Engage Students in Mathematics.” Since the two articles are similar I would like to conclude that this article ends with the author writing, “…this activity could be adapted to any grade
English 2306
James
October 31, 2013
Annotated Bibliography
Bay-Williams, Jennifer M. "Poetry in Motion: Using Shel Silverstein 's Works to Engage Students in Mathematics." Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School 10.8 (April 2005): 386-93. This article shows a unique way of introducing Shel Silverstein’s poem in the math educational system. In this article the instructor gives a challenging but very fun and interactive way to learn math. Throughout the article, the author states that kids are learning so many forms of math such as; probability, circumference, linear functions, similar triangles, proportional reasoning and algebra. It is a very unique way to teach kids, but according to the article the way the lessons are combined with …show more content…
Bay-Williams. The reason there is a similarity because in this current article, the author, Jamie Reiser, is uniquely teaching students through poetry. The article continues to show how much this method of teaching through poetry becomes something the students begin to favor. The differences between the two articles are the age groups of the kids, which in the article “Success with Silverstein” the students are in 4th grade. In that time of being a child growing up subjects are not the only things being taught, but also qualities, confidence, ethics, and morals that will also be developing while getting older. The author writes how she does an experiment with the kids while developing their oral expression skills. The author makes the kids present but before presenting the kids are introduced to poems by Shel Silverstein, similar to “Poetry in Motion: Using Shel Silverstein 's Works to Engage Students in Mathematics.” Since the two articles are similar I would like to conclude that this article ends with the author writing, “…this activity could be adapted to any grade