Making Curriculum Pop

Hi everyone!

I'm working with a second grade math teacher who asked me -

"Did you come across anything that combines movement and math? I came up with jump roping by quarters. 25, 50 75, 100, 125, 150,... Maybe keeping score for a bowling game? Rolling giant dice, adding/subtracting them to move around a game board? I already do some jumping with math facts... love to hear your thoughts. "

I found these related resources:
http://www.mathandmovement.com/
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3745951
http://chalk.richmond.edu/education/projects/webunits/math/sport.html
http://mcpopmb.ning.com/group/matheducators/forum/topics/curricula-...
http://motionmathgames.com/

Does anyone else have some good ideas on this one?

Any ideas = Cool.

Thanks, 

Ry:)

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I use giant rolling dice and outdoor games with Arithmetic Village. I also use acting and art. Lots of free lesson plans at arthmeticvillage.com. The manipulatives we use for AV are jewels, sacks (10) and treasure chests (100) This makes borrowing and placement value easy to understand. AV was created because sitting down with numbers is not natural at first for math, kids should be actively working out the math problems. Each function also has a character. Linus Minus loses jewels, Polly Plus collects jewels, Tina Times is so fast and efficient, she collects in groups. King David Divide is thoughtful and wise, sharing equally is what he decides. And if he has some jewels lift over, they go to his pet, a cute dog named Rover). You don't really need to get the simple books to do sort out activities and can change them to suit your children and their interests. I just started this project in September, so go to the site and let me know if there is anything that helps! :)
Execllent Kimberly - I may put that person in contact with you! Thank you for sharing!
I like the human number line and I have also modified this to a Cartesian coordinate plane.

http://fcit.usf.edu/fcat8m/resource/activity/humans.htm
Thank you so much Mrs. L! That looks great!
Human number lines rock! Thanks!
Learning about measurement can be fun by using objects to measure and estimate--even using their own bodies. Have kids measure the distance around the playground by laying end to end. Estimate total distance by creating a class average or by finding the median...kids can line up and the one in the middle gets measured.

To scale things down a bit, you can have them use books or other long flat objects as their measuring tools.
Using a SMARTBoard, I was able to download an interactive dartboard to help students learn how to subtract and add. I just Googled dartboards and found one that I liked, copy and pasted it to a Word Document and kept the board highlighted. When students threw the koosh ball at the board, the cursor marked where the ball hit the board. Students kept track of their own scores. The winner of each game won a Sentinel dollar to be used to buy a goodie at lunch.
Thanks Mike, Great idea!

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