Every student should have a math journal.
Stacking Cups Activity: Stack cups with different values written on them, they need to add up to 10 in every directions, then journal your strategies and represent what you did. This could also be a great beginning of year activity for students because they have to negotiate and get alone- it's a team-building activity...
- Fits all the Common Core "Mathematical Practices" on sheet
One of the "Mathematical Practices" is to: make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Another way to say this is stick-to-it-ness
Think of these mathematical practices when doing problem solving
Common Core:
Critical Areas--- they are your umbrella, they are your big ideas
Domains- overarching big ideas that connect topics across grades
Learning Progressions-- increase in complexity from one grade to next
Clusters- group of related standards that identifies what a student is learning
Trading Up or Down Game: This is the game with the dice and the plus/minus where you are trying to get to 0 or 100. Talking about the change in place value. The idea came up that students will choose numbers like 90 or 10 to try and win easily. The suggestion was to put number in a bag that students randomly draw or use a random number generator to help choose the number for the game- this way they can't try to use strategies.
Can use ten frames and maybe rekenreks for the Trading Up or Down Game...
Learning Progressions emphasize: Word to Quantity first, then Symbol
Game bone:
http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/DogBone/gamebone.html
This was a good game suggestion from Mary Davis, Marysville. She gave the suggestion at the conference. I haven't checked it out yet....
Post Card Activity:
They had us pick a post card that we connected to. After we sat down, they asked us to discuss how the picture on the photograph related to teaching math. All the postcards came from
Fotofolio.com Photograph activities could also be used for beginning of year parent activity, pick photo then say how it relates to how they feel about the 2nd grade year...
Crumpling Paper Idea Share:
Sharing ideas by writing on paper, crumpling up, throwing, taking someone else's idea and discussing it with someone different
Ten Black Dots book- you can do so much with this! See materials!!
Show, Make, Write activity- teacher shows the dots, students make them with counters, write in their journal what they saw, share what they saw. This could be a great activity before math class, like mental math and reflexes...
Perhaps this is a good way to structure your math: number talk, subtilizing, lesson-- Where would the read aloud fit into this?
"When you are a teacher and students are exploring, you need to have something that helps you assess rather than over help so they aren't problem solving. You need like a checklist. You can get that from the book:
How to Assess While You Teach Math."
The kids can have their own checklists as well so that they are also responsible for their own learning....
These are formative assessments--- see page 44 day 2
Concrete to Pictorial to Abstract.... This is how students should learn math...
Always do this when you are starting a new concept
Holding Kids Accountable: each table selects at least one person who is ready to share when the dice rolls their table number then that person comes up
Origo flash cards- this is a great company with good material, but they are a bit expensive. You could make similar materials...
http://www.origoeducation.com/
Align, Assess, Achieve, LLC
--This s where you can find Common Core aligned to UbD
www.qualityinstruction.org
Book-
Lottie's New Beach Towel-- Great to use with math activities, check out conference notebook
It's about persevering and precision- these are the Mathematical Practices that are overarching and most important and necessary for every problem solving and math activity
