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Math Activities


 

 

Mathematics Activities for Preservice Elementary Teachers

Marvin Harrell and Nancy Smith, Emporia State University, 1997

 

 

 

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A. Problem Solving Read How many feet? How many tails?

Pentominoes-Box no tops

Who Dunit, pg. 11

How many squares on a Geoboard?

Color Balls in Jar, pg 13 only & can problem

Read Math Curse, PS Books

Magic Square

Get It Together

Number Tiles

Horse Problem

Act It Out

Analytic Scoring Scale Work Samples

B. Communications Journals  

 

Math Survey

C. Reasoning  

 

 

 

Attribute Block Paths AC 6-1, 6-2

Attribute trains

Who Am I?

D. Connections  

 

 

 

Science Interdisciplinary Connections

Lesson Plans Themes

Software Demo

 

E. Number Concepts & Number Relationships

Calculator

1, 2, 3, . . .9

what next

Tie to base-ten block.

Estimation & Ordering Fractions.

Bean Sticks, Counting Sticks, Base-Ten Blocks

Charged Particles/Poker Chips Model, p. 64

What is a Fraction? p. 92

Equivalent Fractions p.94

Build a Mat

How Big Is It? p. 96

What Is My Name: Decimal & Fraction Relationships

Who's First? ordering decimals p. 116

M&M Activities

From Fractions to Decimals to Percents, p. 136

What is a percent? p.135, 100 grid

Gravity & Weight, Mission Math K-6, p. 83. Decimals/Base 10 Blocks

Read Frog & Toad, Lost Button

Treasure Box Sorting

Read More Spaghetti I Say

Cuisenaire Rod Fractions

Geoboard Building Halves

AC 6-9, 6-10 Estimating Dots (group recognition)

Ten Frames

Pasta Activities

Counting Books Early Number

ID Counting Principles

Writing Samples

Place Value Books

AC 13-5 Painting Problems

AC 14-6 Using Percents

F. Number System & Number Theory

Place Value Connections. Create Kit.

Blocks

Discuss 1,000,000 dots

Read One Watermelon Seed

Read How Many Eggs

Read The King's Chessboard

100 Board LCM

 

Trading-Race to a Flat (Race to Zero)

A Square Experiment. p. 72

Arrays Anyone, p. 80

GCF and LCM using Cusenaire Rods. Burn's Video

GCF and LCM Revisited, p. 82. Venn Diagrams & Prime Factorization

Calculators Can Do It! p. 84

Add Big Numbers 1,000,000 dot activity. (Build m3 with cm3)

Burns Pockets

Burn's Video Place Value Interview

Read How Much is Million

Million Dots

AC 7-11 How big is Big? (million) calculator

Building Rectangles with multilink factors, primes, composites, odds & evens

Multiples on a 100's board

Number Facts or Fantasy

Read M&M Counting Book

Calculator Counting 10ths

Calculator Reading Numbers

Race to a Green

Calculator Space Invaders (wipe out)

AC 7-4 Find that Number 100's Board (Counting by 10's)

Rolling Zeros for Decimals AC 13-8 Plugs-In Puzzles Calculator

Percent Models including AC 14-4 Solving Proportions

Percent benchmarks Mental Math AC 10-7 What's Missing Number Tiles Calculator

G. Computation & Computational est.

Counting on by N. on the Calculator

Calculator Powers of Ten

Keystrokes (Exploring New Topics Decimal Products, p. 49

Concrete materials for basic facts

Relate more estimation to computation

Read Bunches and Bunches of Bunnies

Read Too Many Dinosaurs

Use base-ten to model algorithms

Division Handout

Add Fraction Bar Activity

Use Base-ten blocks decimal algorithm assignments.

% properties

When Door Bell Rang Journal Activity writing stories for Operation Meaning

Marilyn Burns Tape on addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division using base-ten blocks

Adding & Subtracting Integers - charged particles, p. 67

Integer +, -, x, using patterns, p. 69-71.

Living Areas in Mission Math K-6, p. 61 HEDS Scale Drawing, Measurement

Adding & Subtracting fractions using pattern blocks, fraction strips, and paper folding, p. 99

Multiply fractions using pattern blocks and paper folding, p. 102

Dividing fractions using pattern blocks, p. 105

Add, subtracting, multiplying decimals, p. 121 Marilyn Burns Video

Finding Percents, p 139.

Models & Meanings Basic Facts Multilink

Est/MC books

Calculator activity: Hide a Number

Read Computation Books

Read Basic Facts Ways to Get to 11, Mouse Count, Fish Lake, What Comes in 2's 3's 4's, Divide & Ride

Solving percent problems, using equation, ratio, and mental methods

Decimal square computation

Base-ten block decimal computation

Read Money Books

Mental Comp. Strategies

Estimation Strategies

Base-ten block Algorithms

Read Fraction Books

Estimating Fraction Card Sort

Fractions Strips Computation

AC 9-2: How Would You Do It? Comp Choice

AC 8-13: 21 or bust (calculator)

AC 16-8: Pascal's Triangle

AC 2-1: Patterns with Blocks (Multilink)

Ratio, Prop, and % Books

H. Patterns & Functions

Mission Paths from, Mission Math K-6 poster Sorting Classifying

Sums of evens/odds and squares #s using color tiles

Use attribute pieces with set theory

Yektti from Used Numbers: Groups and Graphs, p. 85

Geometric Patterns, p. 2, Number Patterns, p. 4, What's My Role, p. 7

What's in the Loop? Attribute Blocks, p. 27

Sort & Classify, p. 25 Attribute Blocks

What's my function?

Calculator: Nifty Nines

Calculator: Powers of 10

Palindromes

Growing Shapes with Pattern Blocks

Number patterns and number theory books

I. Algebra  

 

Equations, p. 126

 

 

J. Statistics

Weather - Temp collection Mission Mathematics K-6, p. 113. MTPE

ACruncher@ for weather data

 

 

Get Acquainted Graphs

Popcorn Estimate Graph

Mystery Graph

Rasin Data Vocab Line Plot Stem/leaf plot

MMMR Modeling with Multilink

K. Probability  

 

 

 

Probability Golf

Sum of 2 Dice

Cubes in a bag

Fair Spinners

AC 15-9 Check Your Probability Knowledge

Prob/Stat Books

L. Geometry Read The Greedy Triangle

Creating a Protractor & What's the Angle, p. 202

The Mystery Figure, p. 204

Classifying Triangles, p. 205

Toothpick Triangles

Angles on Pattern Blocks, p. 208

Tiles & Tesselations from Mission Mathematics K-6 p. 5

Covering An Airplane from Mission Mathematics K-6 p. 5

Tangram Make a Square

Read Geometry Books

Mira

Build 3D Geometric Figures D Stix etc.

AC 11-12 Geoboards

AC 11-10, 11-16 Less is Best Pattern Blocks

M. Measurement Read How Big is a Foot?

Build a Protractor

Protractor Rocket Launches from Mission Math K-6, p. 97 (angles, protractor measurement)

Probing the Planets from Mission Mathematics K-6 p. 75 (scale model)

Regular Polygons in a Row, p. 240.

What's My Area? (using Tangrams) p. 244

Pick's Theorem, p. 251

From Rectangle to Parallelograms, p. 253

From Parallelograms to Triangles, p. 254

From Parallelograms to Trapezoids, p. 255

Measure Hand Activity

 

 

Water, Water Mission Math K-6, p. 57

Mass capacity data collection

Calculator Estimate time to skip count

Measurement Books Read How Big is A Foot, Who Sank the Boat, Inch by Inch, Time Books, Money Books

Clock?

How Much Are You Worth? or How Big is this Shape?

Metric Step Chart

Big G Model

Money Board

Devices Homemade, Overhead Development

Basic Fact Books

 

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