Making Math Fun Through Movement
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Chapter Seven
Integrated Math Through Movement Activities Aligned with Common Core Standards
The following math through movement games can be used by elementary classroom teachers to reinforce math skills. The games can also be used by the physical education teacher to integrate math in the physical education curriculum that can reinforce math skills taught in the classroom.
Name: Rope Geometry/Numbers
Grade Level: 1, 2, 3
Standard Math K. G. 6, Math 1.G2, Math 2.G.1 Skill Geometry
Skill: Geometry
Materials: Jump Ropes, Flash cards with shapes and numbers
Activity: Each student has a rope and finds a space of his own. The teacher holds up a flash cards that exhibits a shape ( triangle, circle, square, etc.) or a number and instructs to re-create the figure they see on the card using their ropes.
Name: Solve an Equation
Grade Level: K-5
Standard K.NBT.1, 2OA.3, 30A.4, 4.OA1, 4.NF.3b, 5.OA.2, 5NF6
Activity: After collecting a card from the teacher, students convene into groups to create and solve an equation by using all the cards collected( e.g. one exercise card 6,2,5,4,9 and symbols such as+,-,x and =). For example: students could arrange their cards to read 6+2+5-4=9 jumping jacks( cards should be a combination of numbers and operation)
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About the Book
Making Math Fun through Movement explores how to integrate math content with movement.
With more than sixty math movement games for reinforcing math skills, the guide is an essential resource for teachers, parents, daycare providers, and anyone who wants to help children get healthy and smart. Learn how to:
encourage children to be physically fit while having fun;
emphasize the importance of maintaining optimal health;
enhance and support the ability of children to learn math;
integrate physical activity throughout a math curriculum.
The author, a former physical education teacher and now a principal who continues to see inactive and overweight children year after year, explores how standard education ties into a lack of physical activity for many children.
He also highlights how instead of giving children with disabilities drugs to help them learn and behave, it can be more effective to incorporate physical movement into lessons. He also provides actual lesson plans that involve physical activitiy to meet Common Core standards.
Make learning fun and help children gain an appreciation for physical fitness with the lessons, exercises, and activities in this guide.
About the Author
Mark Dennison has been an educator in Maryland for more than twenty-five years. As a former physical education teacher and now a principal, his goal is to equip educators, parents, and students with academic math activities that will support a healthy lifestyle.