Hello everyone! I final gave myself a little summer break! I went to Maine last week with my family for a much need mini vacation. On the way my sister and I went to see Taylor Swift at Gillette Stadium. It was amazing! Then I flew back home to go to my fiancé's cousin's wedding! Very busy! Which is why I have not been posting. Here's a little visual recap of my summer fun!
Then, to make it even more crazy I have been at an amazing three day workshop provided by my county that has gotten me back on track and ready for this coming year! SO today I want to share a super cool game I learned at my math solutions section of the workshop today. I have talked about math solutions before and now that I am completing my second training I am very excited to share some specific things that we do in math solutions. Today we discussed the hundreds chart and the importance of place value. We received some great games that came from this book, which I highly recommend! |
Hippity Hop is a game based on the hundreds chart and place value. First, every pair or group gets a hundreds chart. Then you challenge your students to try to "hop" to a certain number following these rules:
1. You must start at 0. (This will lend itself to a lesson about what is 0, where is 0 on the chart and you as a teacher must decide which hundreds chart to use 0-99 or 1-100.)
2. You can only hop by 1's, 10's, and 100's. Both forward and backward.
3. The goal is to find the least amount of hops.
This is my quick walk through ...
1. You must start at 0. (This will lend itself to a lesson about what is 0, where is 0 on the chart and you as a teacher must decide which hundreds chart to use 0-99 or 1-100.)
2. You can only hop by 1's, 10's, and 100's. Both forward and backward.
3. The goal is to find the least amount of hops.
This is my quick walk through ...
In this problem I hopped to 100, then up 10, up 10 and finally forward 1, forward 1. This is 5 hops total.
After modeling, students will play in pairs or groups. Then, the most important part, students will share their answers and how they got there, explaining and proving to the class that their solution works.
Once they are developmentally ready you can discuss what the number sentence is that explains the hops. You can discuss different ways to hop and write the number sentence.
Taking it another step forward, instead of starting at one you can start at a different number.
Example:
How many hops to 76 from 31.
Number sentence this correlates to? 76 - 31 = or 31 + __ = 76
The deep thinking and understanding that is demonstrated through that game is incredible! So excited to hear my students' thinking.
After modeling, students will play in pairs or groups. Then, the most important part, students will share their answers and how they got there, explaining and proving to the class that their solution works.
Once they are developmentally ready you can discuss what the number sentence is that explains the hops. You can discuss different ways to hop and write the number sentence.
Taking it another step forward, instead of starting at one you can start at a different number.
Example:
How many hops to 76 from 31.
Number sentence this correlates to? 76 - 31 = or 31 + __ = 76
The deep thinking and understanding that is demonstrated through that game is incredible! So excited to hear my students' thinking.