Author: Labman

Our Game

For the game we will have two or three mats lying on the floor. We divided the mats into equal sections and painted numbers in the sections. On the back of one of the mats we put various shapes on it such as a square, circle, triangle, rectangle etc. that the younger students could use. We will give one student several beanie babies that are associated with the sea or water. The students will toss one beanie baby onto a painted number, then that student or another one will toss a second beanie baby onto another number. The whole group will be asked to add the two numbers that the beanie babies fell on. If the students are using the shape mat, then they will be asked to identify what shape they tossed their beanie baby on and a characteristic of that shape, such as how many sides the shape has. There is a lot of variation in this game regarding the operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication) that we will ask the students to do. This is because we can ask the students to add three numbers instead of two, or we can ask them to subtract the numbers instead of adding them, we can also ask the students to multiply the numbers. In addition to these variations, we can also call out a number and have the students try and toss the beanie babies on to the numbers that will add up to that number we called out. To make some variations with the shape mat, instead of having the students identify what shape it is, we can have the students count the number of shapes that are on the mat.

AQUA MATH

Presented by:
Maribeth Darling
Jackie Lantry
Meaghan Wong

Math Day 2008

What Math Topic does Aqua Math Cover?????

The math topic will be mainly addition. However, we will also ask the students subtraction and or multiplication. Therefore, this game can be used to cover many of the math operations. We are going to stay away from the fourth operation which is division. In addition, for the younger students we also created a mat that has the shapes on it. If the students use this mat, then they will be focusing on the math topic, geometry.
The Performance Indicators from NY Standards that best apply to our game are: For the mat that has the shapes on it: Performance indicator: 2.G.2 Identify and appropriately name two-dimensional shapes: circle, square, rectangle, and triangle For the mats with the numbers on them: Performance indicator: 2.N.8 Understand and use the commutative property of addition

Some Sample Math Questions on the New York State Tests that this game will help your student tackle are...
1 Sam and Jenna have been saving pennies. Sam has 232 pennies, and Jenna
has 151 pennies. How many more pennies does Sam have than Jenna?
A 71
B 81
C 121
D 181

Sample questions taken from http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/3-8/appB.pdf

Have the students look up these websites to play more with addition, subtraction, and multiplication!!!
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/flash-cards.html- this game is interactive, the students can pick what operation they would like to do, and there is also a place to choose the level of difficulty. This website is great practice for the students.
http://www.coolmath-games.com/numbermonster/index.html- this game is also interactive. The students can pick which operation they want to do, add, subtract, multiply, there is also division available. The students can also pick out the level of difficultly they want to do.
http://www.dositey.com/addsub/addex1.htm- this game involves the students first counting the number of bugs that are on a two leafs, they have to type in the number of bugs. Then the bugs fly to the third leaf, the students can have the option to count the bugs and then arrive at the answer.
The website that this particular game comes from is http://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/mathasmd.html, have the students look up this website, there are many games that the students can choose from and play!!!!!!!