Thursday, December 8, 2011
Math Centers
I am trying something new this year with math. I noticed due to the fact that it is my second year with the curriculum that math was going a lot faster, so I started math centers. Once we go through whole group together and students finish their work they move to their center. They get a new center each day for the 5 day week and I have been keeping the centers for 2-3 weeks. One station is me where I work with kids at their level (they are in level based groups), another station is shapes, another is the games on think central on the smart board that match the lesson, a dominoe adding game station and a card station. I am having difficulty finding new fun games for math. Any ideas or resources out there that you enjoy?
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I've often taught the kids different card games too. If you already know these, sorry for the repeat!
ReplyDeleteAdditional Battle: Each child lays down the top two cards from their pile face up. They add the numbers (can count the pictures on the card if need be) and see who has the higher sum. The higher sum adds all of the cards to the bottom of the pile.
General, Order, Report: This might be too tricky for first graders at this time of year but I'm not sure. They play in groups of 3. Two players hold a card up to their forehead without looking at it. Then, the player without a card tells the kids the sum. The players have to figure out which card is on their own forehead by looking at the other card and thinking about the sum.
You could also do addition dice coloring sheets. You have to prep a coloring page by writing possible sums inside each part of the picture. They roll two dice, add the sum (or count the total dots if necessary), and then get to color in the part of the coloring page that has the sum written in it. I like to make my own coloring pages that have the word of the week hidden inside so it's math and language arts.
Thank you!
ReplyDeleteIf you are willing to invest...kids love working freely with tanagrams, unfix cubes or geoboards. All three provide opportunities to work with shapes and patterns.
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