Believe it or not, math lesson ideas are starting to sink into our social networking! Pinterest is a website where you have different boards. For example, you can have your wedding day, your future house, hair styles, nail designs,...etc. On the website, you are now beginning to see more educational boards where teachers or moms are putting up their creative ideas on how to get their children to do math. These ideas can be shared easily with a click of a button, literally! It's neat to see the different ideas and pictures to go along with them.
One of the pins (what you call all the ideas and pictures under a single board) I enjoyed the most was the nerf gun math. The parents, or children, write whole digit numbers from 0-9 on plastic cups. The children then shoot cups until they all fall down. They need to write down the number on the cups that they shot, and then add them up. Let's face it, a nerf gun shootout will get anyone's attention! Even my own because its fun and interactive!
Another pin that I found rather unique had to deal with shape recognition. One parent thought it would be a great idea to turn snack time for the child into learning time for the brain as well. The adult took snacks and cut them into different shapes. Then on the plate it was served on, drew the same shapes. Next, they mixed the fruit up so the child could then match the food to the shape if they wished too. It gave them something to do while they were eating that kept their brain involved while at the same time probably taught them to not talk with their mouth open or full!
There are also pins that you would never think of as actually being math skills. For example, connecting the dots to reveal a picture. Without even noticing, this is helping kids to count. Also, the greater than and less than signs being monsters. Who hasn't heard that one?! The monster always wants to eat the bigger number right?! It's a simple trick to get kids to remember which was to turn the sign. The open end always points towards the bigger number. My personal favorite though, was the 100th day of school project. On the 100th day of school each of my classmates, including myself, would have to choose a tiny object that they loved and count out 100 of them to put in a jar to bring to school. We then had show and tell with our jars and said why we loved the objects we had chosen. This is yet another, great idea to get kids to count to larger numbers!
The thing I found most unique about these ideas however were that most of the ideas came from parents. These ideas most likely aren't classic ones that are taught to "teachers in training" as a way to involve their class. It was love and care for their own children that helped parents create interactive learning in everyday moments. Parents are teachers, except everday, every moment, they have a class watching their every move.
So enjoy your social networking! You never know what math you'll find out there without even realizing it. At the top is a link to pinterest so that you can find some ideas for some math exercises! Enjoy!
One of the pins (what you call all the ideas and pictures under a single board) I enjoyed the most was the nerf gun math. The parents, or children, write whole digit numbers from 0-9 on plastic cups. The children then shoot cups until they all fall down. They need to write down the number on the cups that they shot, and then add them up. Let's face it, a nerf gun shootout will get anyone's attention! Even my own because its fun and interactive!
Another pin that I found rather unique had to deal with shape recognition. One parent thought it would be a great idea to turn snack time for the child into learning time for the brain as well. The adult took snacks and cut them into different shapes. Then on the plate it was served on, drew the same shapes. Next, they mixed the fruit up so the child could then match the food to the shape if they wished too. It gave them something to do while they were eating that kept their brain involved while at the same time probably taught them to not talk with their mouth open or full!
There are also pins that you would never think of as actually being math skills. For example, connecting the dots to reveal a picture. Without even noticing, this is helping kids to count. Also, the greater than and less than signs being monsters. Who hasn't heard that one?! The monster always wants to eat the bigger number right?! It's a simple trick to get kids to remember which was to turn the sign. The open end always points towards the bigger number. My personal favorite though, was the 100th day of school project. On the 100th day of school each of my classmates, including myself, would have to choose a tiny object that they loved and count out 100 of them to put in a jar to bring to school. We then had show and tell with our jars and said why we loved the objects we had chosen. This is yet another, great idea to get kids to count to larger numbers!
The thing I found most unique about these ideas however were that most of the ideas came from parents. These ideas most likely aren't classic ones that are taught to "teachers in training" as a way to involve their class. It was love and care for their own children that helped parents create interactive learning in everyday moments. Parents are teachers, except everday, every moment, they have a class watching their every move.
So enjoy your social networking! You never know what math you'll find out there without even realizing it. At the top is a link to pinterest so that you can find some ideas for some math exercises! Enjoy!
I love that someone blogged about Pinterest! There are so many great ideas out there. It is a great resource for teachers!
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