Bring Your Math Class To Life ICTM 2015

Bring Your Math Class
to Life
Engage your students!
Mary Kienstra ICTM 2015

Bring Math to Life
• Make it Social
• Leave the Worksheet behind
• Rituals They’ll Love
• Let the Kids Create

Make Math Social
Include
Discussion and Collaboration
in Every Lesson

Make Math Social
• Collaborate
• Discuss
• Share ideas

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

Let Them Teach Each Other
• Group kids to teach each other
• Strategy groups
• Ability groups

Keep Them Talking
• Check homework with a partner
– Engaging
– If they don’t agree – they have to work the
problem again

Keep Them Talking
“Training wheels” –
sentence starters for math discussion

Leave the Worksheet Behind
There are so many
other
ways to practice a skill

Practice with Online Games
• Gregtangmath.com – My favorite website!
– Break Apart
– Expresso
– Kakooma
– Satis-fraction

Greg Tang’s Expresso

Greg Tang’s Minus Mania

Greg Tang’s Satis-fraction

Kenkenpuzzle.com

CalculationNation.nctm.org

My Favorite App

Practice with 24 Cards

Practice problems in New Ways
• Dice
• Cards
• Lanyard Math

Use Dice
• Dice
– Roll dice to practice
any operation

Use Cards
• Cards
– Pick cards to practice any
operation

Lanyards?
• Lanyard Math
– Each kid “wears” an
equation or word
problem
– Becomes “expert”
– Solve each others’
– Record on sheet

Kahoot
• www.getkahoot.com
• Interactive online game using iPads or other
device as controller
• Kids work together
• Kids can create these problems

Make it Real
• Bring the Boxes
– Volume and surface area
– Measure the sides
• Great discussion
• Great discussion

Make it Real
• Real life Projects:
– What is the sugar content of these beverages?

Make it Real
• Shark Tracking
– Shark lengths
– Average miles traveled
http://www.ocearch.org/#SharkTracker

Shark Tracking
Katherine the Shark’s Path @Shark_Katherine on Twitter

Make it Real
• Bring the pumpkins!
– Estimating weight

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

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

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

Kakooma Challenge
My classes “compete” against each other

Kakooma Challenge
• Competition is motivating for some kids

Don’t forget our Math Holiday
• Many resources with
ideas for celebrations
• Pinterest boards
• NCTM
Have some fun!

PI Day – Annual Party
• Kids create a project
• Measure circles
• Create pi chain
• Sing pi songs

Sing Holiday Songs

Numbers in the News

Numbers in the News
• Kids research an event
• Find ways math is used
• Create graphs

Live on the Coordinate Plane

Play SET on the Coordinate Plane
http://www.setgame.com/set/puzzle

Play SET on the Coordinate Plane

Dance Dance Ordered Pairs

Estimation Station
• Outstanding website created by Andrew
Stadel
http://www.estimation180.com/

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!

My 2 “Favorite Words”
If you ask any one of my students what
my 2 favorite words are,
they will tell you!
PLACE VALUE

My 2 “Favorite Words”
Because it’s a joke…
They remember it!

Let the Kids Create
• Foldables
• Videos
• Puzzles

Kids Create Foldables
• Just another way to review or show
understanding

Kids Create Foldables
• Complementary and Supplementary Angles

Kids Create Videos
• Web-based
– Smart Board
– iMovie
• APPS
– Explain Everything
– iMovie
– Telagami Video from iPad or other camera

Kids Create Videos
• Explain their thinking or show their work using
Explain Everything App on iPad

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?

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’

Kids Create Puzzles and Games
From NCTM Illuminations Created by a student

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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