Graphic+Organizer

=Absolute Value Graphic Organizer=

Strategy: Network Tree



According to Vacca, Vacca, Mraz (2011), using graphic organizers is an effective strategy to "help students anticipate concepts and their relationships to one another" (p. 243). This network tree is similar to a graphic organizer, as it "represents the network of relationships that exists between superordinate concepts and subordinate concepts" (Vacca, Vacca, & Mraz, 2011, p. 330). Thus, it would serve as an effective supplement to help engage students in text since it clearly illustrates the steps involved in solving absolute value inequalities. According to sociocultural learning theory, dividing a complex task into multiple smaller, simpler tasks is an effective strategy to help students reach a solution or accomplish a larger task at hand (Ormrod, 2011). Network trees also help visually organize content and appeal to students’ spatial intelligence as well as their logical-mathematical intelligence (Brahier, 2008). Therefore, this graphic organizer will help facilitate students’ comprehension of this topic in the textbook by appealing to the wide range of learning styles of my students, which is supported by Gardener’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences and sociocultural learning theory (Ormrod, 2011; Brahier, 2008).