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Building a Sense of Community—With Math | Edutopia

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It's well known that children learn by playing and that playing has numerous cognitive benefits, including flexibility, focus, self-control, organization, and planning. Playing games may also help children develop logical, executive, and social skills. Some studies show that such benefits can come from video games, as these can strengthen a range of cognitive abilities, including visual and spatial discrimination, memory, reasoning, logic, and problem solving.

Because play is self-motivated and fun, students learn without feeling that they're working hard or that the task is too difficult. They focus for long periods and become completely immersed in what they're doing. In short, offering children playful lessons or the opportunity to play taps into their natural predisposition for intense, self-directed learning.

In addition to delivering lots of practice for hand-eye coordination, strategic planning, and decision making, educational video games structure problem solving and train students to "fail up"-to learn from their mistakes, try again, and persist until the problem is solved.

Most importantly, research shows that video games sharpen visual discrimination skills, spatial thinking, and the ability to visualize and interact with 3D objects-good predictors of not only academic achievement but future engagement and success in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics- the STEM fields. And there's evidence that spatial skills can get better with practice.

MathMobs

As the school curriculum becomes ever more crowded, informal educational experiences that take place outside the classroom are a strategy we use at my school. An example for middle school is the MathMob. That's our version of a flashmob-a group of people mobilized by social media who meet in a public place to participate in a brief unusual or entertaining activity. At my independent all-girls school in Bethesda, Maryland, the students assemble in a common area to play math games on iPads or smartphones for up to 20 minutes.

One of our favorites is 2048, a single-player strategy puzzle that involves combining two tiles with the same number-all powers of 2-so that they merge into one tile with twice the value. The goal is to reach 2,048 before the board fills up completely. This game encourages strategic thinking and planning, as well as focus, as it challenges players to solve ever more complex configurations.

Another favorite is Flow Free, a simple yet challenging game that focuses on visual discrimination, spatial thinking, logic, and creativity. The playing grid has a series of colored dots-the more dots, the more challenging the game-and the player must connect two dots with the same color without leaving any spot empty and without crossing any other flow line. The time trial mode, which we play, challenges the students to complete as many puzzles as possible within a given amount of time.

Other potential games include sudoku and KenKen puzzles as well as 1010!, Flow Free Hexes, Block! Hexa Puzzle, and Roll the Ball (all are available for iOS and Android devices).

In our school, the entire community of students, faculty, and staff belongs to either the White or Blue team, and during the school year the two teams compete for points in various events, such as Field Day or Problem of the Cycle.

MathMobs are included in these events for middle school, so they're a team competition. The winner of the activity is the team with the highest aggregate score. This means the girls-including those who think that math is not their thing-have an incentive to participate as they all like the perks (usually a day out of uniform) that come with winning the team competition over the course of a trimester.

We set aside about 20 minutes at the beginning or end of study hall, or lunch, or otherwise flexible time. MathMobs are kept short to maintain the focus and keep the excitement high. When time is up, the students sign out with their score (for example, their highest tile in 2048 or the number of games they completed in the time trial mode of Flow Free), and the winning team is usually announced at the next assembly.

Building a Sense of Community

MathMobs are very popular: Usually a third or more of the middle school students participate. These events encourage community building as students from both grades (7 and 8) play math-oriented games together regardless of their math ability. Because the team competition is very stiff, and often the difference between winning and losing is just a few points, each student feels that her contribution can make a difference.

In addition, the girls enjoy the low-pressure environment and the collective nature of the games, especially in a subject area that is usually very structured, high stakes, competitive, and individualistic. While we don't formally evaluate MathMobs, outside observers-including colleagues from other disciplines-often remark on how impressive it is to create a safe space in which middle schoolers are comfortable playing math games in public for fun.

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It's well known that children learn by playing and that playing has numerous cognitive benefits, including flexibility, focus, self-control, organization, and planning. Playing games may also help children develop logical, executive, and social skills. Some studies show that such benefits can come from video games, as these can strengthen a range of cognitive abilities, including visual and spatial discrimination, memory, reasoning, logic, and problem solving.

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"CanFigureIt Geometry was exactly what I was looking for! It is an interactive way to complete proofs online, which is especially useful for remote learning and/or differentiated learning. One of the frustrating parts of teaching proofs is the lack of students having the opportunity for immediate feedback.

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Activities for Super Bowl and Groundhog Day | Yummy Math

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Activities for Super Bowl and Groundhog Day | Yummy Math

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Greasing light poles - How much Crisco are the Philadelphia police using to grease their light poles to discourage climbers? 6.EE.A, 6.G.A, 7.G.B, 8.G, MP5

Typical Super Bowl scores - Students reflect on the mean, median, and mode losing scores, winning scores, and range of scores from past Super Bowls as they try to predict this year's scores. They decide how the next pair of scores will affect those central measurements. 6.SP.2, 6.SP.5, 6th, 7.SP.4, S-ID.2

Super Bowl cost of ads still increasing - The cost of a 30-second Super Bowl ad has continued to rise. Is the rise linear, exponential, something else? Students graph and examine an exponential function, decide on the growth factor, and predict the future. 8.F.3, 8.F.5, 8.SP.1, HSS.ID.B.6a, HSF.LE.A.1, HSF.IF.C.8b

Super Bowl Numerals - Roman Numerals, how they are used and surprisingly easy numerals arithmetic. 5.NBT, 6.NS, 7.NS

Super Bowl Cheesy pretzel poppers - Students follow a recipe that involves cutting a block of cheese, figuring how many servings, estimating how many times they need to multiply the recipe by to make enough pretzel bites, and multiplying and reducing fractions. 5.NF.3, 5.NF.6, 5.NF.7, 6.NS, 6.RP.1, 6.RP.2, 6.RP.3, 7.G, 7.NS

How many wings did the Bills send the Bengals? - The Bills sent a thank-you gift of Duff's famous chicken wings and sides to the Bengals. How many wings, pounds of carrots, and gallons of sauce, do you think that they sent to fill-up the whole Bengals team? MP1, 5.NBT.5, 6.RP.3

Super Bowl ads and scientific notation - On Monday, when the Super Bowl is over and all of the ads have been seen, use this scientific notation activity to involve math students in the talk of the day. Students practice using scientific notation as they calculate the cost of Super Bowl commercials. After working with these incredible costs, students get to express their opinions about the ads and decide who the marketing was geared towards. 5.NBT.1, 5.NBT.2, 6.EE.2, 8.EE.1, 8.EE.3, 8.EE.4, HSA.SSE.A.1

Which TV is the best deal? - Explore area and unit pricing to determine which HDTV offers the most screen area for the price. Students use scale diagrams to find the area of various HDTVs and make comparisons in actual screen area. 4.MD.3, 5.NBT.5, 5.NBT.7, 6.RP.3, 6.G.1

Will Punxsutawney Phil see his shadow? - The relative frequency of the groundhog's accurate forecasts. 7.SP.5, 7.SP.6, 7.SP.7

More Football activities

Home Team Advantage - Students study the data from a graphic to verify whether there is or is not a home team advantage. 6.RP.1, 6.RP.2, 6.RP.3, 7.SP.4

Big Bucks - Students look at various sport's contracts for highly paid athletes. How much do they earn per year? per season? per game? Students judge from slope which athlete receives the largest rate of pay. 6.RP.2, 6.RP.3, 7.RP.2, 8.EE.5

Do teams that spend a lot win a lot? - Students compare team wins with team salaries in the four major North American sports ... the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL. Students use data from recent seasons to create scatter plots comparing wins and salaries for each sport. 5.G.1, 5.G.2, 6.SP.2, 6.SP.5, 8.SP.1, 8.SP.2, 8.SP.3, HSS.ID.6, HSS.ID.C.8, HSS.ID.C.9

Extra point or 2-point conversion? - The NFL changed the extra point kick distance to 33 yards and now teams have a tough decision to make, go for one or two points? The one point extra point is no longer a given with a success rate of about 94%. Teams can go for two by trying to get the ball in the end zone from the two yard line. Teams have been successful at two-point conversions in the past about 50% of the time and 53% of the time after the first two weeks of the NFL season. So we ask students, which does it make more sense to do? 7.SP.6, 7.SP.7, HSS.MD.B.5, HSS.MD.B.6, HSS.MD.B.7

NFL draft picks - Every spring, roughly 250 college football players are drafted by NFL teams through the NFL draft. How much does where they are drafted effect their earnings? 6.EE.9, 8.F.3, HSF.LE.A.1

4th down - It's 4th down. Should you go for it? Punt? Kick a field goal? Instead of using your gut, use research, data and math to make the right call . 7.NS.1, 7.NS.2, 7.NS.3, 7.SP.C.7, HSS.MD.A.2, HSS.MD.B.5, HSS.MD.B.6 , HSS.MD.B.7

Watson Saves - 2005 video of Benjamin Watson running diagonally across the entire AFC divisional championship game to make a tackle just before the goal line. How far did he run? Pythagorean theorem, 8.G.7, G-SRT.8

Rush or pass - Are football teams better off having a great passing game or a great rushing game? Analyzing data with scatter plots, student group work, 8.SP.1, HSS.ID.B.6, HSS.ID.C.8, HSS.ID.C.9, HSS.IC.A.1, HSS.IC.B.6

Clean close shave - Does facial hair improve a quarterback's performance? How large in an adequate sample? Can you deduce a correlation? How could you choose the data to ensure a correlation? what's the most effective graph to demonstrate the data? 6.SP.1, 6.SP.3, 6.SP.4, 7.SP.1, 7.SP.2, 7.SP.3, 7.SP.4, HSS.ID.A.2, HSS.ID.C.9

Losing team in the playoffs - How often do teams with losing records qualify for the playoffs? Who was the worst team ever to make the playoffs? In this activity students explore teams in the three major US sports who have made their playoffs with a losing record. How will they determine which team had the worst record. 4.NF.2 , 6.RP.1 , 6.RP.2 , 6.RP.3 , 7.RP.3

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Super Bowl, Groundhog Day, and football activities

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Greasing light poles - How much Crisco are the Philadelphia police using to grease their light poles to discourage climbers? 6.EE.A, 6.G.A, 7.G.B, 8.G, MP5 Typical Super Bowl scores - Students reflect on the mean, median, and mode losing scores, winning scores, and range of scores from past Super Bowls as they try to predict this year's scores.

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Math is always a tough subject for a good number of students. These students tend to go through a lot of struggle as they attempt to get good grades. While in school, no one can really run away from the subject because it is incorporated almost everywhere. The same also applies in our daily lives. There is almost no single day that goes by without having to solve a mathematical problem of some kind.

You can now see just how important this subject is and why we need to be good at it. There is no parent who loves to see their child go through any struggles in life. That is why whenever a parent sees their child having troubles with math they often go looking for the most viable solutions.

Some of them go for private tutors, while others decide to do that by themselves. But lots of parents who help out their children with math may not be aware of the applications that have been designed to offer assistance in understanding different math concepts.

This article offers up 11 math apps that can be used by parents to help their children learn math skills.

This app is designed as a super-fun math game that is appropriate for any toddler, and up to 5th-graders. What the app does best is that it helps the learner to understand and improve on their basic time table skills.

Developed by Yellephant, this cute-looking little app provides your child with a wonderful learning experience. Your child can explore the forest animals by engaging in 3 different activities.

This math app takes you through an entire math adventure with some of your favourite Disney characters. If your child has ever had fun exploring drawing, making music, and storytelling with the Mickey's Magical Arts World app, rest assured that they'll enjoy this one.

Developed by Freecloud Design, this app was featured in The New York Times and won the Editor's Choice Award at the Children's Technology Review. With this math app, math can be loads of fun. It allows you to build rockets and fly them, and with the 56 different math missions, math is made easy.

The game is both entertaining and educative and allows your child to practice math operations. Math Training for Kids comes with three different levels that can challenge your child to be better at math. This math app is not only good for children; it can also be enjoyed by adults.

This math app was featured in Common Sense Media's 2013 Holiday Gift Guide and won the Best Learning App during the iKids Awards in 2014. The app comes with a number of activities, games and videos which can help your child learn about counting and numbers. The songs and videos about numbers will greatly enhance their learning experience.

This app is perfect for both elementary and middle-school students and it guarantees them instant results. What is good about this app is that it adapts a learning model that is ideal to your child, ensuring that the lessons are personalized.

This game features Cheddar the Mouse and takes kids through a fun-filled but educative journey. While on the journey they get to meet new friends and solve loads of exciting puzzles that'll also help them learn the basics of chess. In addition to this, the game comes with over 80 different mini-games that are super-exciting to play.

This game has been rated as one of the top tower defence games where the player is allowed to defend their territories while at the same time taking on some amusing opponents. When defending the territory, you need to master the art of geometrical shapes in order to defend The Land of Venn.

This app comes with 6 activities that'll help kids discover the numbers up to 100. The app works best for kids between the ages of 4 to 7 years. As for the older children, they can learn about the numbers in a foreign language of their choice.

This game is played in such a way that kids get to defend Mathly Hollows from attack by developing their mental math skills. With the app, learning math is both fun and easy.

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These 11 Entertaining Math Apps are Perfect for Struggling Students

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Math is always a tough subject for a good number of students. These students tend to go through a lot of struggle as they attempt to get good grades. While in school, no one can really run away from the subject because it is incorporated almost everywhere.

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Choose your own maths adventure with our interactive tools that allow you to build a custom playlist of inspirational activities!

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North Country Community Based Mathematics Project - Google+

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North Country Community Based Mathematics Project - Google+

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North Country Community Based Mathematics Project

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Sharing resources, including local resources, for making math instruction relevant!

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TenMarks | Free Online Math Software | Grade 1-12

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TenMarks | Free Online Math Software | Grade 1-12