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Math Games - Part II

Thursday, May 28th, 2009 10:49 am

Written by: Terese Herrera

You probably already incorporate games in your teaching. We even highlighted math games in an earlier post - Let’s Talk Teaching: Math Games. Games are a great way to focus students’ attention as few other teaching strategies can. The ones selected here deal directly with the math content covered in the middle grades. Each has […]

Posted in Topics: Algebra, Factors, Geometry, Graphs, Math, Patterns, Polygons, Quick Takes

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Let’s Talk Teaching: Games in Math Class

Monday, October 27th, 2008 11:50 am

Written by: Terese Herrera

In my years of teaching grades 6 through 8, I generally used games only for reviewing before a test. What I didn’t realize was how effective games can be for teaching the content. Each of the games below has a learning objective; each could be embedded in a lesson plan for middle school math. And, […]

Posted in Topics: Algebra, Factors, Fractions, Graphs, Math, Polygons, Process Skills (Mathematics), Quick Takes, Statistics

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Geoboard Geometry

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 7:41 am

Written by: Kimberly Lightle

Sometimes geoboards are left on the shelf because we don’t know what to do with them. They can be powerful tools for students to study, length, area and perimeter. (But remember to be careful with the perimeter part because the length of one unit is only measured on the horizontal or vertical, not the diagonal.) […]

Posted in Topics: Area, Geoboards, Geometry, Math, Perimeter, Polygons, Quick Takes, Triangles

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