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发帖数: 19398 | 1 Fla. school incorporates song and dance into math, reading
http://www.news-journalonline.com/article/20140410/NEWS/1404199
概要翻译：
美国佛罗里达一所小学的五年级学生通过歌曲和舞蹈学数学概念。
这个项目是从前的一位老师开发的，
里面包括诸如“八边形或者其他多边形里面有多少个边”之类的问题。
Students at an elementary school in Florida are using song and dance to
remember key math and reading concepts. Students use the program --
developed by a former teacher -- to learn concepts, including how many sides
are in an octagon and other polygons. "It's a great way for the children to
use movement and song to help them solve problems," teacher Joseph
Interdonato said. "It's also a great way to get them moving and active."
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DAYTONA BEACH — One quick question about triangles from Stephanie Pasley-
Henry and a class of fifth-graders started singing and dancing on the
sidewalk at Turie T. Small Elementary School.
Teacher Joseph Interdonato didn’t mind his students’ quick-steppin’
antics at all because he knew the lively music and lyrics they had learned
from Pasley-Henry would help them remember how many sides are in an octagon
and other polygons without even having to think about it.
“It’s a great way for the children to use movement and song to help them
solve problems,” he said. “It’s also a great way to get them moving and
active.”
Pasley-Henry, a former teacher and developer of the Math Party and Reading
Party programs, has been working with children and teachers at Turie T.
Small since December. She’s also offered to lead free student assemblies at
other Daytona Beach elementary schools through the end of the academic year
as part of an education initiative promoted by her husband, Daytona Beach
Mayor Derrick Henry.
The former cheerleader and Miss Bethune-Cookman University started
developing the math and reading programs — including software and videos
being used in classrooms at other Volusia schools and across the country —
10 years ago while teaching fifth grade in Broward County.
Frustrated when her students had trouble grasping the concept of division,
Pasley-Henry tried creating songs and dance moves to capture the children’s
attention and help them remember the math rules to follow.
“I was repeating myself day after day and it wasn’t working,” she said.
“I created a song about how to divide and the lesson turned into a song.
Then I created other songs, and their test scores soared.”
It wasn’t long before other teachers whose students overheard the music
coming from Pasley-Henry’s classroom were asking her to show them how to
add the songs to their lessons. She ended up training other Broward teachers
in her methods and taught some classes at Barry University in Miami before
leaving her daytime teaching job to work full time developing the math and
reading programs through her company, Step by Step Expressions.
Using song and dance to teach the basics of math and reading was a natural
evolution for her, said Pasley-Henry, who grew up in DeLand singing in her
church choir and cheerleading at Pop Warner football games and DeLand High,
where she graduated in 1992. She earned a bachelor’s degree at Bethune-
Cookman and master’s, educational specialist and doctoral degrees at Nova
Southeastern University, attending classes at night while teaching in
Broward County.
She writes, sings, dances and records all the teacher and student materials
for the Math and Reading Party programs, which also offer kits for parents
to use with their children at home.
“Being in the studio, it’s like being in the classroom,” said the 39-year
-old Pasley-Henry. “It’s my teaching moment.”
She’s finding other “teaching moments” closer to home these days, too,
now that she has a 20-month old son. Pasley-Henry often plays some of her
CDs about letter sounds or counting when they’re in the car together. “He
’s not even 2 yet, and he’s picking it up,” she said. |
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