My guess is that most of us employ evidenced based techniques when we teach and would like to stay up-to-date when it comes to learning about new research and testing those ideas in our classrooms. With this in mind, here is a list of strategies proven to be effective in education.
Your students will enjoy creating these squiggly designs to show multiplication facts. Have them check to make sure that each of the vertical lines crosses the horizontal squiggly lines. Students should circle each time the squiggle and the straight lines meet. Finally, they should write the multiplication fact shown by the squiggly design.
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Call it anything you want: Two Truths and a Fib, or Facts and a Falsehood, the math version of this game is just as fun as the original. Students will love to practice math facts with Two Facts and a FAKE. Keep your entire class engaged playing this fast paced, find the facts, fix the fraud type game.
The fun parts of this game are thinking of new and exciting ways to describe what you want to bring, and evaluating the ideas of others. So, you can carry on playing even after it is very clear that everyone knows what sort of thing to bring. In fact, playing the same game for a while gives your students plenty of time to think up loads of expressions that meet the criteria.
Make Language Games into Multiplication Practice Many of us ... Continue Reading
Writing literally helps students assign words to the logical ideas expressed in math. It builds critical thinking skills and gives students time to organize and processing their thoughts. Writing helps make academic problems more concrete and accessible.
Calculating the total number of combinations in a specific situation is an engaging way to provide learners with another model of multiplication beyond repeated addition. Mixing items of clothing to find unique outfits isn't the first activity that comes to mind when thinking of multiplication. However, this way of thinking shows students that multiplication can be viewed as identifying intersections, areas of overlap, or interaction between sets of items.
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