Are you looking for engaging and effective ways to help your upper elementary students gain confidence and competence with key math concepts? Come prepared to play math games that incorporate the use of cards, dice, multi-sided dice, number lines, math shakers and other easily found math manipulatives.
Concepts covered include:
understanding the place value system including whole numbers and decimals, fractions decimals percent including operations with fractions, numbers and operations in base ten, multi-digit operations, rebuilding fact fluency, statistics, data management and organizing data.
Throughout the workshop participants will have the opportunity to play each game, learn how to differentiate the activities to meet the needs of all learners, how to develop math journal and math talk extensions, and how to use the game activities for assessment purposes Student samples, gameboards, ides for whole/small group instruction will be provided. Interspersed throughout the workshop will be practical ideas for classroom organization and management to ensure effective implementation of games as a teaching strategy. Ideas for developing weekly lesson plans and samples will be shared. John has not been to the SW area in years, and will bring lots of new games and strategies, and resources!
For the literacy section participants will have the opportunity to play literacy games that incorporate the use of letter tiles, literacy dice, word decks and other easily found manipulatives. Lots of new games will be taught that focus on the following concepts:
vocabulary development, parts of speech, spelling simple to complex words, cloze and predicting activities, word patterns and more. Ideas for journal response and assessment will be shared. The games and strategies are great for all students including ESL and special ed, and are easy to integrate into any literacy program. Ideas for differentiating the activities will be provided.
An extensive handout will be provided for both the math and literacy sections.
Resources will be available for purchase on site.
*This learning opportunity is made possible through funding from Alberta Education.*