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Math Point Person Presentation 2/22/17 & 2/23/17

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Math Point Person Presentation 2/22/17 & 2/23/17

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Math Point Person Presentation 4/26 & 4/27

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Math Point Person Presentation 4/26 & 4/27

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Visual Representations Illustration from Principles to Action

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You and your child will enjoy these middle school math activities, and best of all they provide an excellent opportunity to learn math while having fun at the same time!

Dice can be used to teach a variety of math skills. Some children catch on to math more naturally than others. Regardless of how your child learns math, you can be sure adding some fun to the mix goes a long way in helping kids learn.

Exponents are a very important skill in middle school math. some games involving exponents? Try this Online Basketball Math Exponents Game to start practicing and building skill working with exponents! Slam dunk with the right answer!

If you're a teacher, you should check out our main classroom math games page. You can print a lot of these games off right from the computer for play in your classroom. Your students will get a kick out of math with these fun math activities!

BAKE A BATCH OF FRACTIONS: Cooking with math is always a fun way to reinforce general math skills. With this activity, you'll be practicing adding and subtracting fractions, but the activity can be modified to refresh multiplication, division, and more.

Learning about decimals is a skill students need to master during their middle school years. This online activity helps get practice with ordering decimals. See if you can switch the decimals around to put them in the correct order from the smallest to largest.

Practice decimals with this decimal dart game. See how many balloons you can pop by throwing darts and practicing working with decimals! Recognize which decimal is greater or less that another. can be played with one or two players.

By the 7th and 8th grades many students are introduced to pre-algebra and algebra. If not then definitely by the 9th grade. Check out these online games for Solving simple linear equations and the second one they solve linear equations while blasting the planets!

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You and your child will enjoy these middle school math activities , and best of all they provide an excellent opportunity to learn math while having fun at the same time! Dice can be used to teach a variety of math skills. Some children catch on to math more naturally than others.

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Celebrate Math Awareness Month with Education World's third volume of "Math Fun" lessons. These five activities can be used to reinforce a variety of math skills. Included: Activities that teach critical thinking, math facts and computation, decimals, more.
April is Math Awareness Month. To celebrate, why not set aside some time during math class to have some fun? Choose one day a week to play math games that provide real life math practice. Or try out a new fun activity each week. By the end of the month, you'll have a handful of activities to fall back on. (And won't you be surprised when your students play those math games in their spare time -- just because they're fun!)

Another way to celebrate "Math Month" is to simply introduce into your classroom routine a fun "invisible math" activity that students can do in their spare time. For example...

Concentrate!
For many students, memory skills are an important companion to math skills. Memory games help students exercise their brains too. Challenge and develop students' memory skills with two fun versions of the Concentration game atCoolmath4kids. Have students keep track of the fastest times in which they complete Concentration Puzzle 1 or Concentration Puzzle 2 and then award prizes for the fastest times and most improved times each month! (Classmates can verify one another's final times by initialing their charts.)

Now, let's turn out attention to...

FIVE MORE "MATH FUN" LESSONS

This week, Education World provides five lessons for math fun. Click each of the five lesson headlines below for a complete teaching resource. (Appropriate grade levels for each lesson appear in parentheses.)

Homerun Math
Students advance the bases as they correctly answer math questions. (Grade K-12)

High, Low, or in Between?
This card game involves predicting and probability. (Grade K-8)

"Weighing the Elephant"
A math problem presented in a Chinese folktale exercises thinking skills. (Grades K-12)

Decimal Bingo
This BINGO game reinforces computation with decimals, but can be adapted to other math skills. (Grades 3-5)

Math "Hoop-la"
Real-life math! Students figure the mean, median, and mode of basketball free-throw data. (Grades 3-8)

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Celebrate Math Awareness Month with Education World's third volume of "Math Fun" lessons. These five activities can be used to reinforce a variety of math skills. Included: Activities that teach critical thinking, math facts and computation, decimals, more. April is Math Awareness Month.

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Practice! Practice! Practice! That's how most students learn their addition facts or times tables. Rote drill is a popular and proven tool for learning math facts. But it's OK to lighten up and add some fun to math-facts learning. Included: Five games to engage students as they learn math facts.
Just as understanding letter sounds is fundamental to the ability to read, so is knowing math facts the foundation to future math learning. That's why teachers in the primary and elementary grades spend so much time practicing and memorizing and drilling and timing students in basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts. Accuracy and speed are the goals. Work sheets and timed tests and games -- yes, games! -- are often the tools.

Games -- relay races, card games, and computer games -- actively engage students as they reduce stress and make learning fun. Education World offers you...

Five Games to Engage Students as They Learn Math Facts

Click each of the five lesson headlines below for a complete teaching resource.

Math Facts Race
This fun math race reinforces math facts in a very visual way. (Grades K-5)

Math Facts War
Adapt a traditional card game to practice math facts. (Grades K-8)

Saved By the Bell
This fast-paced team game is a fun way to practice math facts. (Grades K-8)

Multiplication BINGO
Adapt the BINGO game to reinforce multiplication table skills. (Grades 3-8)

Online Math Facts Games
Online math-facts games for friendly classroom competition and at-home practice. (Grades K-8)

Additional Resources

Don't miss a page full of additional resources including more lesson plans and more than a dozen interactive online games that will engage students as they learn their math facts. (Please note that some outside links may no longer be operational.)

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Games for Teaching Math Facts | Education World

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Practice! Practice! Practice! That's how most students learn their addition facts or times tables. Rote drill is a popular and proven tool for learning math facts. But it's OK to lighten up and add some fun to math-facts learning. Included: Five games to engage students as they learn math facts.

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From Stanford Online's "How To Learn Math for Teachers and Parents": Number Talks

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Howard County School District Math Resources

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Howard County School District Math Resources

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Illustrative Mathematics provides resources and support for giving their students an enduring understanding of mathematics.

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