This guide contains 30 easy and irresistible movement activities that teach essential math concepts to all learners.

This guide contains 30 easy and irresistible movement activities that teach essential math concepts to all learners.

Making Math Fun through Movement explores how to integrate math content with movement. With more than sixty math movement games for reinforcing math skills, the guide is an essential resource for teachers, parents, daycare providers, and anyone who wants to help children get healthy and smart. Learn how to: encourage children to be physically fit while having fun; emphasize the importance of maintaining optimal health; enhance and support the ability of children to learn math; integrate physical activity throughout a math curriculum. The author, a former physical education teacher and now a principal who continues to see inactive and overweight children year after year, explores how standard education ties into a lack of physical activity for many children. He also highlights how instead of giving children with disabilities drugs to help them learn and behave, it can be more effective to incorporate physical movement into lessons. He also provides actual lesson plans that involve physical activitiy to meet Common Core standards. Make learning fun and help children gain an appreciation for physical fitness with the lessons, exercises, and activities in this guide.

Get your students excited about math by get- ting them out of their seats and exploring it in a whole new way. Students need to move in order to learn, some more than others, learn why. Organized by tool, this book contains 50 lessons that get children moving and away from their desks while they are learning mathematics.

This volume features movement-inspiring activities which reinforce key literacy and math concepts.

Make developing basic math skills fun and painless With this great collection of over 125 easy-to-use games, puzzles, and activities, teachers and parents can help kids comprehend fundamental math concepts, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, place value, fractions, and more. All games and puzzles use easy-to-find household items such as paper and pencil, playing cards, coins, and dice. The activities also help children develop problem-solving skills, such as testing hypotheses, creating strategies, and organizing information, as well as spatial relations skills, part-to-whole skills, and memory. Michael Schiro, EdD (Chestnut Hill, MA), is an associate professor at the School of Education at Boston College. He is the author of several books on teaching and learning math and is a frequent presenter at local and national math conferences.

"When math fact instruction is thoughtful and strategic, it results in more than a student's ability to quickly recall a fact; it cultivates reflective students who have a greater understanding of numbers and a flexibility of thinking that allows them to understand connections between mathematical ideas." -Susan O'Connell and John SanGiovanni In today's math classroom, we want children to do more than just memorize math facts. We want them to understand the math facts they are being asked to memorize. Our goal is automaticity and understanding; without both, our children will never build the foundational skills needed to do more complex math. Both the Common Core State Standards and the NCTM Principles and Standards emphasize the importance of understanding the concepts of multiplication and division. Susan O'Connell and John SanGiovanni provide insights into the teaching of basic math facts, including a multitude of instructional strategies, teacher tips, and classroom activities to help students master their facts while strengthening their understanding of numbers, patterns, and properties. Designed to be easily integrated into your existing math program, Mastering the Basic Math Facts: emphasizes the big ideas that provide a focus for math facts instruction broadens your repertoire of instructional strategies provides dozens of easy-to-implement activities to support varied levels of learners stimulates your reflection related to teaching math facts. Through investigations, discussions, visual models, children's literature, and hands-on explorations, students develop an understanding of the concepts of multiplication and division, and through engaging, interactive practice achieve fluency with basic facts. Whether you're introducing your students to basic math facts, reviewing facts, or providing intervention for struggling students, this book will provide you with insights and activities to simplify this complex, but critical, component of math teaching. Extensive online resources include customizable activities, templates, recording sheets, and teacher tools (such as multiplication tables, game templates, and assessment options) to simplify your planning and preparation. Over 450 pages of reproducible forms are included in English and Spanish translation. A study guide for Professional Learning Communities and book clubs is also included. Discover more resources for developing mathematical thinking at Heinemann.com/Math