Doing Math in Morning Meeting: 150 Quick Activities That Connect to Your Curriculum

by Andy Dousis, Margaret Berry Wilson

Overview

Bring joy and energy to math learning without adding to your already-packed schedule! This book gives you 150 fun and engaging math activities suitable for kindergartners to 5th graders, and provides math-themed ideas for all four Morning Meeting components: greeting, group activity, sharing, and morning message. Use these guessing games, songs, chants, hands-on experiments, and more to inspire students' interest in math and help them practice skills.

Each activity includes:

• Easy how-to steps
• The Morning Meeting component in which to use the activity
• Relevant NCTM content and process standards
• Specific math skills addressed; Materials needed (all require few or no materials)
• Tips on preparing students for success
• Math vocabulary to emphasize
• Variations and extensions.
Best of all, these challenging yet confidence-boosting activities will deepen the math learning of every student in your classroom—including children who “hate” math—while enriching and enlivening your Morning Meetings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781892989376
Publisher:	Center for Responsive Schools, Inc.
Publication date:	08/16/2010
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	51,345
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction
Kindergarten Activities
1st Grade Activities
2nd Grade Activities
3rd Grade Activities
4th Grade Activities
5th Grade Activities
Activity Subject Lists
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