Math Centers: Week 5

There is something about seeing the kid who is your most challenging one, the one who is bored with EVERYTHING, the kid who is your class clown, really, really (no I mean REALLY) get into logic puzzles. I mean take a kid who might not have turned in any assignment the whole year and  give him a logic puzzle and watch him melt into a puddle of mathematical genius.

That is what happened this week during math centers.  Sometimes you just have to find that one thing that really interests a kid and then you feed it and feed it as long as it will last.

And that my friends, feels like victory.

We actually had three centers going on this week.  Students spent 15 minutes in each center.  They all responded well to what we had to offer in our math centers this week.

Station 1

Logic Puzzles were the name of the game in station one.  Some students worked together and others wanted to do their own.  Some took all 15 minutes to figure one out, and still others completed almost every one that I had in that 15 minutes.  The ones that we picked were not super difficult, although next year I think we should add in some different levels for those that were really good at these.  We also allowed some to do Sudoku.

Station 2

Our second station was a game made out of bottle caps where students raced against each other to match decimals and fractions.

Station 3

In this station, students worked in pairs to play Roll..Flip...and Solve polynomial equations.  they would roll two die to see what the polynomials were and then they would flip a token to see if they should add or subtract them.  Then, they would solve.

Coming soon...Pi Day!

Until Next Time,

Amy Hutto

Library Media Specialist

South Side High School