No Series: Keeping the Rigor while Making Math Fun

Keeping the Rigor while Making Math Fun

Lesson Objective: Turning social activities at a residential school into math lessons
Grades 6-8 / Math / Games
14 MIN

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Discussion and Supporting Materials

Thought starters

  1. See how teachers turn evening games into math lessons. How is the game "Four in a Row" connected to the coordinate grid?
  2. How could you take common outside activities and games and use them in a traditional school setting?

8 Comments

  • Private message to Jessica Byrd

The games coordinates with fractions it helps the student to identify the X and Y coornidates. 

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  • Private message to Mark Plimpton
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  • Private message to Taishen Liu

It is amazing to see the effectiveness of these learning activities as part of their daily life.

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  • Private message to Monica Woo

The instructor uses popular games and activities and incorporates them into his lessons to help students approach math in a easy-going and fun way. Math is a very challenging subject, and is a subject I have personally found to be the toughest subject. The instructor acknowledges the fact that his students come from a school where they may not have performed very well, and are vulnerable because they feel like "failures." I find it amazing how he can help students feel at ease while learning math.

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  • Private message to Mary Bartz
Having only 8 kids to do math in a game like format would be amazing especially plotting their progress in what they have learned in an engaging way. See notes for more.
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