damiller
03/10/2003, 15:14
First off I tackled counting. Which was an obvious choice and place to start. Now, another simple concept, and one that is inherent to the game: Addition.
Goal:
The student will be able to add together 1 digit numbers to arrive at 1 digit sums.
Method:
You could tackle this goal in a number of ways. Keep in mind, that most of these things I discuss are PERFORMANCE based. (ie they only teach the concept, you would have to teach things like the Numeric Symbols (which is easy with dice) and the addition symbol we use.This would move your student from being able to do ADDITION in her HEAD, to doing addition on her PAPER.)
First Method: (I would use this if the student had not yet learned her NUMBER symbols (ie 1,2,3,4,5,6...10, but knew the names of the numbers.)
1.Take out a map, indoor, outdoor, custom, whatever, but use one that has the squares on it.
2. get one of your students favorite Figs
3. Before hand decide on some simple addition problems you want the student to master. (llike 1+1, 2+1, 3+1)
4. Now comes the guts of the matter.
5. Have the student peform the addition problem. You could say something like this:
"Move (insert fig name) 3 spaces forward. (you will want your student to go in a straight line.)
"Now move (insert fig name) 1 more space forward"
After that have the student count the total number of squares traveled by their fig.
“So 3 and 1 is 4”
Repeat as many times as you want until the student can add any single digit number and get a single digit sum.
Second Method: (possibly the easiest to do, because of course, the game came with dice. Which have numbers, or pips, if you have the ones from the Starter set.) You would also want to use this only if your student already understands thesymbols we use to respresent numbers.
Goal:
The student will be able to add together 1 digit numbers to arrive at 2 digit sums.
Method:
Get the dice, roll them, and add them together.
There really isn’t much else to this option.
Except now you can actually play the game.
Because of course in order to hit the other player you must roll and add.
I wounldnt’ use this method to teach children SIMPLE addtion. Because of course you get 2 digit sums.
So there ya go.
d
Goal:
The student will be able to add together 1 digit numbers to arrive at 1 digit sums.
Method:
You could tackle this goal in a number of ways. Keep in mind, that most of these things I discuss are PERFORMANCE based. (ie they only teach the concept, you would have to teach things like the Numeric Symbols (which is easy with dice) and the addition symbol we use.This would move your student from being able to do ADDITION in her HEAD, to doing addition on her PAPER.)
First Method: (I would use this if the student had not yet learned her NUMBER symbols (ie 1,2,3,4,5,6...10, but knew the names of the numbers.)
1.Take out a map, indoor, outdoor, custom, whatever, but use one that has the squares on it.
2. get one of your students favorite Figs
3. Before hand decide on some simple addition problems you want the student to master. (llike 1+1, 2+1, 3+1)
4. Now comes the guts of the matter.
5. Have the student peform the addition problem. You could say something like this:
"Move (insert fig name) 3 spaces forward. (you will want your student to go in a straight line.)
"Now move (insert fig name) 1 more space forward"
After that have the student count the total number of squares traveled by their fig.
“So 3 and 1 is 4”
Repeat as many times as you want until the student can add any single digit number and get a single digit sum.
Second Method: (possibly the easiest to do, because of course, the game came with dice. Which have numbers, or pips, if you have the ones from the Starter set.) You would also want to use this only if your student already understands thesymbols we use to respresent numbers.
Goal:
The student will be able to add together 1 digit numbers to arrive at 2 digit sums.
Method:
Get the dice, roll them, and add them together.
There really isn’t much else to this option.
Except now you can actually play the game.
Because of course in order to hit the other player you must roll and add.
I wounldnt’ use this method to teach children SIMPLE addtion. Because of course you get 2 digit sums.
So there ya go.
d