Teacher Talk – Conversational Sets

    This bulletin board would be used for second or third graders. The concept of sets is portrayed in this bulletin board. In order to create our bulletin board we discussed several different themes and ways to present sets, which will help us later when we have to create our own bulletin boards as teachers. We also looked over our chapter trying to understand the concept of sets so we could present this information successfully through our bulletin board. This bulletin board should only be used during the month of February because it displays Valentine’s Day as the central theme. The students should already have an understanding of sets and how to use them while doing mathematical problems. The sets on this bulletin board are used as reinforcement strategies in order for the student to better understand this mathematical concept. 
    

    The teacher could ask the students what are sets used for and why is it useful to have an understanding of sets. This bulletin board also helps the students logically solve math problems. When using sets, the student are forced to think about what could be right or wrong, the students cannot get the right answers without going through an educated thought process. Extension activities that could be used with this bulletin board would be reading or writing and allowing the students to explore different sentence patters and tell if they would use those types of sentences in their everyday lives. The teacher could also change the theme of the bulletin board and have the student’s complete sets with different types of examples and a completely different theme for the students to work with. One major construction problem we encountered was color contrast. We had too many reds on the bulletin board so we solved that problem by adding more pinks and purples into the bulletin board. We also could not get the magnets to stick together and hold the sets together causing us to replace some of the magnets with other ones or simply turning the magnets to a different direction.