I am so excited to be teaming up with some of my fabulous blogging friends to bring you a blog hop with incredible tips, tricks, and ideas the last weekend of each month! We are kicking off this month with mathematical ideas to use in your classrooms!
I LOVE teaching math! I am always trying to find fun ways to get my kids up and moving or working together to solve problems. One of my favorite units to teach is telling time! After I teach my kiddos about the hour hand and minute hand, we make our own watches! The kids each get a blank clock face and a strip of colored paper. I have each of my students draw the hour hand and minute hand on their watch face. I tell my second graders to pick a time to the nearest five minutes. If your students are younger, you may choose time to the hour or half hour. Next, they glue the faces to their "watch band." Then, the students put on their watches.
After the watches are assembled and on everyone's wrists, the real fun begins! Each student is assigned a number. I have 21 students in my class, so everyone gets a number 1-21. They write this number on the band of the watch. Next, I give them an answer sheet with numbered boxes. Students must go around the room and ask each student, "Excuse me, what time is it?" The student must show their watch WITHOUT saying anything. The student who asked for the time must read the watch and record their time on their answer sheet. After everyone has walked around the room and gathered the times, they return to their seats and we review the answers together as a class! Easy peezy and SO much fun!
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Love MATH centers..games! Wendy 1stgradefireworks 1stgradefireworks
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ReplyDeleteI love teaching place value (even though at times it can be VERY frustrating). I also enjoy teaching time. Carol
ReplyDeleteI LOVE those watches! We can certainly use a little extra time practice over here :)
ReplyDeleteLove this idea......I would love to see them all ask, "Excuse me, what time is it?" to each other! What a fun way to review time!
ReplyDeleteChristy
Crayons and Whimsy
My favorite math activity is tying literature into math so that the students see that there is overlap with content areas.
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ReplyDeleteI just LOVE to do a Math/Art activity at the end of each Math unit!!! One of my favourites is creating a 3-D shape mobile out of paper nets, colouring and assembling each shape, decorating, and then attaching them to a plastic clothes hanger and hanging them from our classroom clothes line!! Thank you for your generosity and for considering me =). leafsgirl@rogers.com.
ReplyDeleteI like teaching mental math strategies. It's great to see when it clicks for some of the kids.
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ReplyDeleteI love this activity! I like how you have the students draw the minute and hour hands themselves. Brilliant!
ReplyDeleteAimee
Primarily Speaking
Minute to Win it!
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Definitely anything that gets them up and moving....splat, scoot, around the room. They LOVE them!
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Such a cute idea with the watches! Thanks for sharing :)
ReplyDeleteMelissa
First Grade Smiles
Cute idea! Thanks for sharing! I'll be honest...math is my least favorite subject to teach, but I do like teaching my first graders about fact families. :-)
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