Adults encounter ratios and proportions all the time in news or media statistics as well as when estimating risk, shopping for the best deal, creating mixtures and recipes, or performing countless other daily activities. The ability to reason about these numerical relationships develops over a long period of time and through deliberate exploration of the mathematics involved. Language teachers can provide opportunities for students to encounter and expand their ability to reason with ratios in real-life contexts.
This course is for English language teachers who want to deepen their own conceptual understanding of ratios and proportions and to learn strategies for helping students build ratio reasoning skills.
- ESOL instructors interested in integrating math into their language acquisition classroom
This professional development activity/course is designed for:
This 6-hour, asynchronous course is divided into five core lessons on ratios and proportions. Each lesson contains math practice activities and lesson ideas for adult ESOL classes. You are also strongly encouraged to attend the community of practice virtual meeting on June 6 that follows the closure of the online course. There, you will have a chance to ask questions, share ideas, and experience activities as learners.
Schedule
- Self-paced online modules: Open May 7 through June 6
- Community of Practice meeting: June 6 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. (optional)
Please note: About one week before the event, you will receive a separate email from the SABES Math Team at TERC (sherry_soares@terc.edu) with instructions on how to access the course.
Did you know? This course may be bundled with other ESOL and Math PD offerings to earn professional development points (PDPs). Learn more here.
- Identify contexts that involve ratios and proportions that would make sense in an ESOL classroom and use them to create activities/lessons
- Explain what a ratio is and is not, and determine whether ratio reasoning is appropriate in a situation
- Connect different types of mathematical comparisons to language structures
- Explore the different multiplicative relationships in a proportion
- Use concrete strategies to help students reason about ratios
- Identify different ways of expressing ratios and how these can be used to persuade
- Differentiate activities with open-ended math questions for ESOL learners
Upon completion of this professional development activity/course, you will be able to:
You are not required to have a math background, but we recommend taking this course after Getting Started With Integrating Math in ESOL.
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