Movers and Shakers: Using Movement in Mathematics

1. Movers and Shakers:Using Movement in Mathematics Jacqueline Poirier and Amanda Hawkins RCDSB

2. Outline • Getting to know each other • Why use movement? • Classroom Environment • Structures that include movement

3. Find Someone Who • Great way to meet and greet • Use at the beginning of the semester • As a preview or review for units

4. Why movement? • Exercise can increase cognitive ability in children • Research supports merging movement with academics in the classroom • You can incorporate movement without letting the curriculum suffer • Movement is essential to keeping kids • Focused • Excited • Enthusiastic • Ready to learn

5. Cooperative Learning • Cooperative learning is a successful teaching strategy in which small teams, each with students of different levels of ability, use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject

6. 1. Positive Interdependence(sink or swim together) • A gain for one student is a gain for other students • Students need each other to complete the given task

7. 2. Individual Accountability • Individual public performance is required

8. 3. Equal Participation • No one can dominate the activity • No one individual can sit back and relax

9. 4. Simultaneous Interaction • Getting as many students overtly active as possible at any given time

10. Interpersonal and Small Group Skills • Social skills must be taught: • Leadership • Decision-making • Trust-building • Communication • Conflict-management skills

11. Mix-Freeze-Group • Use this activity to get your class into groups

12. Mix-N-Match • Great review of concepts • Quadratic Equations and Graphs • Equation of a Line

13. Line-Ups • Students line-up in order • Multiplication • Order of operations • Number systems

14. Line-Up Challenge • Answers are in a sequence • Integers Showdown!

15. Relay Race • Versatile • Can build on the previous answers • Can make each unique • Work as a team to solve the problem • Simplifying equations

16. Chart Paper Relay Race • Variation of the previous activity • Use chart paper • Works best with questions that have a variety of answers • Characteristics of quadratics • Everything you know about probability

17. Chart Paper Round Robin • Works best with multi-step questions • Will need a timer • Solving systems of equations • Vocab (word wall)

18. Guess Who/What • Will need post-it notes • Terminology

19. Conclusion • Science supports movement in academic classrooms • It can take as much or as little time as you want • Structured movement helps eliminate classroom management problems • Helps to create a positive learning environment where students communicate effectively

20. Contact Us • If you would like copies of the activities we have worked through today . . . • If you would like more detailed instructions on the activities . . . • . . . Please feel free to email • Thank you for coming