4. Make Math Social
• Collaborate
• Discuss
• Share ideas
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5. Make Math Social
• Discussion = talking about math
– Explain their thinking
– Listening to peer’s thinking
• Collaboration = working together
– Students can do more with a partner than they
can do alone
– Learn from each other
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6. Let Them Teach Each Other
• Group kids to teach each other
• Strategy groups
• Ability groups
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7. Keep Them Talking
• Check homework with a partner
– Engaging
– If they don’t agree – they have to work the
problem again
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22. Practice problems in New Ways
• Dice
• Cards
• Lanyard Math
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23. Use Dice
• Dice
– Roll dice to practice
any operation
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24. Use Cards
• Cards
– Pick cards to practice any
operation
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25. Lanyards?
• Lanyard Math
– Each kid “wears” an
equation or word
problem
– Becomes “expert”
– Solve each others’
– Record on sheet
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26. Kahoot
• www.getkahoot.com
• Interactive online game using iPads or other
device as controller
• Kids work together
• Kids can create these problems
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27. Make it Real
• Bring the Boxes
– Volume and surface area
– Measure the sides
• Great discussion
• Great discussion
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28. Make it Real
• Real life Projects:
– What is the sugar content of these beverages?
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29. Make it Real
• Shark Tracking
– Shark lengths
– Average miles traveled
http://www.ocearch.org/#SharkTracker
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31. Make it Real
• Bring the pumpkins!
– Estimating weight
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32. Make it Real
• Use real numbers when ever possible!
– Compare census numbers or area of states
– Percent problems from REAL shopping
– Graphs from current events
– Use real data
• Generate the data in class if possible
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33. Create Rituals The Kids LOVE
• Weekly Kakooma Challenge
• Pi Day
• Numbers in the News
• Living on the Coordinate Plane
• Estimation Station
• My 2 FAVORITE WORDS
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34. Kakooma Challenge
• Every Friday
• Kids work in groups to
solve the puzzle
• Record their times
• Find mean, median of
the times
• Create line plot
Gregtangmath.com
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52. Estimation Station
• Outstanding website created by Andrew Stadel
http://www.estimation180.com/
• Kids answer question with an estimate
• Determine “how close” they are
• Calculate % off
Fabulous Discussion!
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53. My 2 “Favorite Words”
If you ask any one of my students what
my 2 favorite words are,
they will tell you!
PLACE VALUE
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54. My 2 “Favorite Words”
Because it’s a joke…
They remember it!
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55. Let the Kids Create
• Foldables
• Videos
• Puzzles
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56. Kids Create Foldables
• Just another way to review or show
understanding
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58. Kids Create Videos
• Web-based
– Smart Board
– iMovie
• APPS
– Explain Everything
– iMovie
– Telagami Video from iPad or other camera
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59. Kids Create Videos
• Explain their thinking or show their work using
Explain Everything App on iPad
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60. Kids Create Videos
• Rules for rounding – do they always work?
• Why does the reciprocal work?
• How do you compare fractions?
• Why do the denominators have to be the
same when you add or subtract fractions?
• Why do we need the order of operations?
• When do people round in real life?
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61. Kids Create Videos
• Kids are familiar with watching a video to
learn something new
• Let them be the video creators – watch their
creativity soar!
• Share on class website
• Kids comment on each others’
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62. Kids Create Puzzles and Games
From NCTM Illuminations Created by a student
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63. What ideas can you use?
Think about how you can
incorporate these ideas with your class
Check my website:
Marykienstra.com
@beebekienstra
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Notes de l'éditeur
Lucky for me – my goal is to teach the standards, not require my students to do every problem in the book or finish all the worksheets
Census numbers, area of states, play games to get data for analysis
Census numbers, area of states, play games to get data for analysis
Census numbers, area of states, play games to get data for analysis
Census numbers, area of states, play games to get data for analysis
Census numbers, area of states, play games to get data for analysis
Census numbers, area of states, play games to get data for analysis
