Math Strategies

Math Strategies
Number Charts
Number charts are amazing to use!!! I used this website http://www.homeschoolmath.net/ to create a lot of my own number charts. I was working with my students are counting numbers up to 1000 and some of the students had a hard time with the counting. I created a number chart for each of the hundreds and we taped them all in a line in the room. We then studied these charts over and over again to help them with their counting. Then when the students had to complete paterns of numbers such as filling in the 250,____, 252 or ____,400,401 the students could go the charts and follow the chart to help them. I believe that hundreds charts can be used in so many different ways for students.
Blocks
During my math lessons I used all different kinds of blocks in my lessons. When working with place value we used hundreds, tens, and ones blocks. These blocks were great for showing the place value representation for the students. The blocks were also great for when the student add to look at a number such as 100 and add one to the number or ten to the number. They could not understand this concept by just the numbers alone, but the visual of the blocks helped a lot. I used these blocks in many different lessons and there are something that I definitely want to have in the future! When doing geometry I used different shape blocks. Again this visualization helped the students to understand the different geometric shapes and concepts. There are so many different types of blocks available for lessons to help students with the visualization that they need in understanding difficult math concepts.

Games
My students loved to play different games. For math lessons I would spend time on a particular topic we would talk about it, do some worksheet, and then for a review/ something fun the students would play a game. I found several different website that had different math games that student could play. In my classroom we have a promethean board, which is like a smart board, sp the students could play the games on there as a group or individually. Here are some websites that I used,
• http://www.free-training-tutorial.com/place-value-games.html#3digits
• http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/tens.cgi?A1=c&A2=0&A3=0&A4=0&A5=5705.00000000&A6=2&A7=2&A8=[0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0]
• http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/bead/free/free.htm
• http://www.primarygames.com/math/timeclock/start.htm
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/math/teaching-methods/48952.html
This website was very interesting. There were a lot of different and helpful strategies to sue with our students. Some of them need to be adapted depending on the student and their level, but still useable. There are also fun lesson ideas for different topics. I really liked this website because there is a lot if information and because all the information is broken down into specific topics. This made it easy to go to the website and fins something depending on the topic I was working on at the time.