Exploration and play can be more effective than a worksheet, just add some creativity.
Students loving their fraction centers: group games, creating word problems based on pictures, memory, Go Fish. In another fraction class, students went outside with chalk to practice evenly dividing shapes. Exploration and play can be more effective than a worksheet, just add some creativity.
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"What's a Fraction Unit?" Ariana asks when she sees the agenda message for the day.
Another student says a bit worried, "Oh my gosh, we have to learn fractions this year." We introduced fractions with Smartie's this week. They picked up the concept of Fractions of a set very quickly. After a group demo, each student got a box of Smartie's and completed a tally chart of Smartie colors inside. We practiced how to say a fraction and how it looks when written in numbers and words. Then they got to customize a poster about their box. I can't believe how much they got done in a period. It's a beautiful day to enjoy the sun and practice math with some exercise. Students stationed number sentences under pylons all over the playground, and got clipboards with workspaces. They had to run to different stations, stack up the number sentence, solve it (paying attention to it's operation and whether you need to borrow or carry), and run to me for marking. It was a great way to entice those students who are not 'math lovers' or who were struggling with the regrouping skill.
Will a paper clip, a pipe cleaner, or Plasticine make a better connector when joining straws?6/6/2016
Students had time to research elements of India's culture. They will be 'travelling' there on Tuesday and had some time to prepare themselves for what they might see. We reviewed that culture is a way of life of a group of people, and touched on elements that make up one's culture, such as: beliefs, traditions and celebrations, clothing, food, language, etc. The students are getting very excited to learn about a culture so different from their own. Especially after learning about a culture much like their own, Ukraine.
We took an unplanned break today in Math class to try out some multiplication and division games! Visit: http://www.mathplayground.com/index_multiplication_division.html to play them yourselves!
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