Picassa

This week in class we talked about taking pictures and using them for our classroom. Since we are all very familiar with digital cameras these days, it was a very short class. It was so short that I had a lot of time to think about what I could do to incorporate this activity into my classroom.

I love taking pictures, and I think most people would have a lot of fun with it as long as they had the resources to do it. It would be a fun assignment for them to participate in. We could even work with the photography class at the school if we didn't have the time or the resources to take pictures ourselves.

I could also have my students take pictures of ways they might see math displayed throughout the real world. If we talked about using triangles to measure buildings, I would have them take pictures of different sized buildings around town that they could use to make up their own problems and solutions. It could be a really applicable group project. Most importantly, it's good to remember to use differentiation in your teaching strategies to make sure that the students are interested and can keep focus.