Shape up and flex your number skills

Shape Up and Flex Your

Number SkillsPresented by

Summer Lannanand

Sandy WilsonTitle 1 Math Specialists, Bellwood Elementary

Today’s Statistics:

According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 16 % of children and adolescents ages 6-19 years are overweight.

The National School Board Association reports that childhood obesity has nearly quadrupled among 6-11 year olds and tripled among 12-19 year olds over the past 4 decades.

88% of Chesterfield County students have passed their math SOL tests for 2008-2009 school year. However, the Bellwood Elementary passing rate is 83%. State standards require us to accomplish 100% by 2014.

According to action based learning, movement helps to increase brain activity.

So why not do movement in mathematics!

Bellwood ElementarySchool Overview

• 482 students with diverse backgrounds and ethnicities.

• Math SOL scores (below county) 3rd Grade 5th Grade 77% 2009 89% 2009 78% 2008 85% 2008 79% 2007 88% 2007

91% 200684% 2006

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Analyzing DataList what we do at Bellwood.

• 1 hour math model• Calendar math• Small groups• Specialists plan with grade level teams• Math Night, Muffins 4 Math at Bellwood

and Food Lion Family Math Night• Recess/Lunch Remediation• Study Island

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What ELSE Can We Do?

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Action Based Learningwww.actionbasedlearning.com

Brain science strongly supports the link of movement to learning.

Rigor and Relevance

Incorporate Math and PE2008

• Doug Hesser was already beginning to incorporate math into PE by having students skip count while jump roping, adding while throwing, and multiplying while playing basketball

• We decided to work together and collaborate more math and PE activities in our SOL grade levels.

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Place Value-3rd

Grade

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Implementing Movement into the Mathematics

Class• Hula Hoop Activities• Fitness Stations with dice• Geometry Simon Says• Super Inch Number Line• Patterning with movement• Recess Remediation with

math

Fraction/Decimal Hula Hoop

Hula Hoop

Any Volunteers!

Directions:

1. You will be getting into teams.2. The first person in each team will run/walk fast to the hula hoops and make a match, go back to your line.

3. Next person goes until all participants have a match.

4. Go over matches with the class.

Flash CardsHow to REALLY use them!

Now It Is Your Turn?

• Each person will be split into teams.

• Those teams will need to relay to the hula hoops and try to find one card from the first hula hoop that has the same product/quotient as a card from the other hula hoop.

Math Stations

Mathematics in Action StationsStudents were asked to rotate in

small groups to 4 stations, and were timed for 1 minute for 3 different

attempts. They recorded their data on recording sheets. This raw data

was then used to create a graph and calculate mean, median, mode, and range later in the classroom as an

extension activity. The mathematic skills that students put into practice

through this activity were: Recording data, graphing, calculating

mean, median, mode, and range. “Math Fitness Fun Day” was an

example of using mathematics for a real life purpose.

“Hippee Hula Hoops” in 1 minute

“Jivin’Jump Ropes” in 1 minute

“Cram Those Crunches” in 1 minute

“Loopy Leg Lunges” in 1 minute

The Presidential Physical Fitness Award• Miss Strang decided to take

math stations to a whole new level and create fitness folders using the Presidential Physical Fitness criteria used in middle school.

• Students created goals and each month we have one fitness Friday in which our 5th graders participate in physical fitness math stations.

Karate Math

SMS Focus for this year!

VOCABULARY• This year we needed to

incorporate more vocabulary instruction into mathematics.

Our students were missing SOL questions, due to lack of

vocabulary knowledge. • SO. . . . What did we do!

Vocabulary Sorts using Movements!

• We were already doing word sorts in word study for language arts.

• We decided to take this premises and incorporate this into math but add more movement.

• Students are given a word or a definition, they must move around the room to find their partner. They are timed to see how long it takes. We do this each day to see if we can improve our time.

Conclusion

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