COURSE: Math Games for Learning
Description
It’s All a Game: Play your way to deeper math skills: Do you want to improve your ability to teach math concepts? Do you want to increase student engagement? Start this module on leveraging math games in the classroom.
Topics covered
How this course (module) content can help you in your classroom
It’s All a Game: Play your way to deeper math skills: Do you want to improve your ability to teach math concepts? Do you want to increase student engagement? Start this module on leveraging math games in the classroom.
Topics covered
- Learn how to leverage the power of games and how games can unlock learning in your classroom.
- Compare and contrast teaching methods using games vs. more traditional methods
- Explore how games reinforce your classroom culture and teach character
- Learn how to involve student families in math games
How this course (module) content can help you in your classroom
- Help students play games that support a variety of key math concepts
- Encourage students to explain their thinking about strategies while the play
- Learn how games can be used in a several different places in the lesson plan cycle (do now, DI, GP, and so on)
- Learn how to be more strategic with games so that instructional content is more rigorous & open ended and leading students to become stronger independent learners.