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Building A Math Community

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Activities to generate conversation, engage students and encourage a positive mindset toward mathematics

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Resources Compiled by Jenn Kranenburg

Elementary Math Coach, Lambton Kent District School Board

Twitter @JennKranenburg

Click on slide links to go directly to the online resource

Math Is Like.....A Jon Orr Resource

Math is Like………..

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How do your students feel about math?

Encourage creativity!

Where’s Poly?

What do you see, and how do you see it?

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Where's Poly Activity - A G Fletchy Resource

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Where's Poly Activity - A G Fletchy Resource

Let’s start with the first set of slides

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Where's Poly Activity - A G Fletchy Resource

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from Pam Wilson

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Which One Doesn’t Belong?

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Would you Rather?

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Would You Rather Math

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Would You Rather Math

Would you Rather?

Math Before Bed Prompts

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A Jon Orr Resource

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Math Before Bed Prompts

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Building Skyscrapers!

A Mark Chubb Resource

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A Mark Chubb Resource

SKYSCRAPER RULES

• Build towers in each of the squares provided sized 1 through 4 tall
• Each row has skyscrapers of different heights (1 through 4), no duplicate sizes
• Each column has skyscrapers of different heights (1 through 4), no duplicate sizes
• The rules on the outside (in grey) tell you how many skyscrapers you can see from that direction
• Taller skyscrapers block your view of shorter ones

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Go Fish To Ten Card Game

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Build fluency in math facts

1. Each partner group gets a deck of cards with 10 - K removed. A’s are worth 1
2. Each player gets 7 cards.
3. Rather than finding pairs, they are looking for the 2 cards they need to make a total of 10
4. Students take turns until all of the pairs are found

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*Have students lay their two cards (or “parts”) they used to find the sum (or “whole”) face up

*Students can use 3 or more cards to find the total, however the deck won’t work out to be used completely if you do this, and you will have leftover cards

Salute Card Game

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Build fluency in math facts

A is worth 1, J is worth 11, Q is worth 12 and K is worth 13

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Students are placed in groups of 3, with like ability math partners

The dealer (or sum/product finder) gives the other 2 players a card.

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Without looking, each player will place the card on their forehead face out.

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The sum finder adds the value of the cards together.

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Each player tries to determine the value of their card, based on the total and the card they see on the other players forehead.

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The player to win the round keeps the cards and players rotate turns so that each student has a turn to be the sum finder.

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*For older students, the sum finder can become the product finder as students work with multiplication and division

*For students that are still developing their sense of number remove higher value cards. One group may have all cards A-5 while another could have the other half of the deck (6-K).

Math Exploration Through Dash and Dot

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Math Exploration through Dash and Dot, a resource created by Myria Mallette, Val Volland and a collection of LKDSB FI Educators

Program Dot to be a dice and turn your Learning Carpet into a giant game board, with your students as the game pieces!

Math Exploration Through Dash and Dot

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Math Exploration through Dash and Dot, a resource created by Myria Mallette, Val Volland and a collection of LKDSB FI Educators

Program Dash to collect all of the “parts” needed to get to the “whole”