Intervention Math Ideas:
Setting Up Your Class Routine
1) Organize and label your math manipulatives: decks of card (incomplete sets ok), dice, game pieces, tanagrams, geoboards... Shoe boxes, plastic boxes with lids, and zip lock bags work well.
2) Share and trade with your grade level teachers. You may have extra base ten blocks and someone else may have extra tanagram sets. Share getting items ready for the parent club and distribute to your grade level: base ten cardstock pieces, hundred boards with number pieces, stacks of random card numbers, stacks of math symbols (if you don't want to use dice)... Teachers Pay Teachers is a great website to get activities if you do not want to buy math manipulatives.
3) Decide how you will offer material to the students: activities with directions and pieces in boxes, large envelopes that close, pocket folders, or binders. Next decide how you will rotate the activities: one practice a day, Daily Five, an exploratory wheel, or any other method that works for you or your grade level. The idea is to offer a variety of opportunities throughout the week, on a regular basis for your students to Practice the Practices.
4) Outline the Mathematical Practices with your grade level including applications, technology and manipulative activities for each practice. There are many resources to find activities for each practice. The EUSD Resources MBC math resources page is a great place to start. Some activities may fit into more than one practice category.
5) Create the activities with directions, manipulatives, and expectations for your students. You could share the prepping of the activities with your grade level teachers and each take on a few activities to prep. Get ready to have fun with math.
Sample Organization for the Mathematical Practices
1) Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Compass Learning RSP Number Sense pretest/post-test and Learning Path for grades K-5. Class Word Problem of the Day. Students write and share their own word problems. Solving puzzles, putting puzzles together. Students build a hundred chart.
2) Reason abstractly and quantitatively. Number Talks. Find similarities and differences in a random set of numbers (4 numbers in a box works well). Comparing equivalent fractions using Roll to One Whole fractions activity.
3) Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. Student created word problems and then check, solve with partners or group. Create input/output tables. Create a graph or chart to show results of a survey or class activity and be able to describe why you chose to represent the information the way you did.
4) Model with mathematics. Students can create 100's charts, number lines, pictures to represent word problems... activities support students having to create their own model to solve challenge.
5) Use appropriate tools strategically. Opportunities to use a calculator, an abacus, 100's chart, multiplication charts... items that help solve problems that are already created.
6) Attend to precision. 2-5 minute daily math quizzes, on paper, AR Math Facts. Race to the Top Math Facts challenge. Activities using dice, cards, stacks of numbers to add, subtract, multiply, divide, create the number with base ten pieces, roll dice with <, >, +, -, = and then turn over one digit, two digit or three digit cards and write numbers on white board and use the sign that was rolled to make a true math expression. Turn over 12 cards and players take turns making 10 (count face cards as wild cards or as 1, if you take them out, you need two sets of cards).
7) Look for and make use of structure. Find patterns in numbers. Use and create graphs and charts of data using everyday themes (who will eat what at lunch, favorite animals, birthday months...). Explore: Property of One, Associative Property of Addition and Multiplication, Distributive Property of Multiplication, Inverse Operations...
8) Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. Work with tens frames. Making doubles activities. Repeated dividing by the same number. Discover laws by trial and error (bring in round objects in various sizes and formulating Pi for themselves). Number Talks. Composing and decomposing numbers.
Reference:
http://www.insidemathematics.org/index.php/commmon-core-math-intro
"Many person have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." - Helen Keller
Setting Up Your Class Routine
1) Organize and label your math manipulatives: decks of card (incomplete sets ok), dice, game pieces, tanagrams, geoboards... Shoe boxes, plastic boxes with lids, and zip lock bags work well.
2) Share and trade with your grade level teachers. You may have extra base ten blocks and someone else may have extra tanagram sets. Share getting items ready for the parent club and distribute to your grade level: base ten cardstock pieces, hundred boards with number pieces, stacks of random card numbers, stacks of math symbols (if you don't want to use dice)... Teachers Pay Teachers is a great website to get activities if you do not want to buy math manipulatives.
3) Decide how you will offer material to the students: activities with directions and pieces in boxes, large envelopes that close, pocket folders, or binders. Next decide how you will rotate the activities: one practice a day, Daily Five, an exploratory wheel, or any other method that works for you or your grade level. The idea is to offer a variety of opportunities throughout the week, on a regular basis for your students to Practice the Practices.
4) Outline the Mathematical Practices with your grade level including applications, technology and manipulative activities for each practice. There are many resources to find activities for each practice. The EUSD Resources MBC math resources page is a great place to start. Some activities may fit into more than one practice category.
5) Create the activities with directions, manipulatives, and expectations for your students. You could share the prepping of the activities with your grade level teachers and each take on a few activities to prep. Get ready to have fun with math.
Sample Organization for the Mathematical Practices
1) Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Compass Learning RSP Number Sense pretest/post-test and Learning Path for grades K-5. Class Word Problem of the Day. Students write and share their own word problems. Solving puzzles, putting puzzles together. Students build a hundred chart.
2) Reason abstractly and quantitatively. Number Talks. Find similarities and differences in a random set of numbers (4 numbers in a box works well). Comparing equivalent fractions using Roll to One Whole fractions activity.
3) Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. Student created word problems and then check, solve with partners or group. Create input/output tables. Create a graph or chart to show results of a survey or class activity and be able to describe why you chose to represent the information the way you did.
4) Model with mathematics. Students can create 100's charts, number lines, pictures to represent word problems... activities support students having to create their own model to solve challenge.
5) Use appropriate tools strategically. Opportunities to use a calculator, an abacus, 100's chart, multiplication charts... items that help solve problems that are already created.
6) Attend to precision. 2-5 minute daily math quizzes, on paper, AR Math Facts. Race to the Top Math Facts challenge. Activities using dice, cards, stacks of numbers to add, subtract, multiply, divide, create the number with base ten pieces, roll dice with <, >, +, -, = and then turn over one digit, two digit or three digit cards and write numbers on white board and use the sign that was rolled to make a true math expression. Turn over 12 cards and players take turns making 10 (count face cards as wild cards or as 1, if you take them out, you need two sets of cards).
7) Look for and make use of structure. Find patterns in numbers. Use and create graphs and charts of data using everyday themes (who will eat what at lunch, favorite animals, birthday months...). Explore: Property of One, Associative Property of Addition and Multiplication, Distributive Property of Multiplication, Inverse Operations...
8) Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. Work with tens frames. Making doubles activities. Repeated dividing by the same number. Discover laws by trial and error (bring in round objects in various sizes and formulating Pi for themselves). Number Talks. Composing and decomposing numbers.
Reference:
http://www.insidemathematics.org/index.php/commmon-core-math-intro
"Many person have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." - Helen Keller