creating early math games that work - for penn foster pd fair
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Presentation given on 10/22/14 for Penn Foster's Professional Development Fair. Creating Early Math Games that Work! Describing early math research about linear board games, subitizing and the approximate number system, and spatial learning.TRANSCRIPT
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CreatingEarly Math Games
That Work!
Teresa Gonczy
Wednesday, Oct 22nd
9-10am Eastern
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Who are you?
* Teacher, Admin, Student
What ages do you work with?
* Infant/Toddler, Preschool, Kindergarten
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What early math gamesdo you already usein your classroom?
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Image and activities from http://kidsactivitiesblog.com/6415/early-math-activities-2.
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Image and activities from http://kidsactivitiesblog.com/6415/early-math-activities-2.
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Think about...
* what specific math skills are being developed?
* what non-math skills are being developed?
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Math Skills
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Math Skills
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Research shows that early math skills are just as predictive, and possibly more predictive, of later academic success than early literacy skills.
And yet most preschool classrooms devote much more time to literacy
than to math.
Duncan, G.J., Dowsett, C.J., Claessens, A., Magnuson, K., Huston, A.C., Klebanov, P., Pagani, L.S., Feinstein, L., Engel, M., Brooks-Gunn, J., Sexton, H., Duckworth, K., and Japel, C. (2007). School readiness and later achievement. Developmental Psychology, 43(6).
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Why early math games?
Early math isn't about worksheetsor flashcards.
Games are effective and fun!
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Researchers found that the more board games children played, the better they performed on various
early math tasks.
What types of math games?
Ramani GB and Siegler RS. 2008. Promoting broad and stable improvements in low-income children’s numerical knowledge through playing with number board games. Child Development 79(2):375-394 - See more at: http://www.parentingscience.com/preschool-board-game-math.html#sthash.xvbOeAdk.dpuf
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Moving from logarithmicto linear thinking.
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Moving from logarithmicto linear thinking.
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Moving from logarithmicto linear thinking.
The Great Race Game
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Moving from logarithmicto linear thinking.
The Great Race Game
Picture from the research article - http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~siegler/RamaniSiegHitti-12JEP.pdf.
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Moving from logarithmicto linear thinking.
The Great Race Game
Specifics... * number, not color based* straight, not circular track
Siegler, R. S. & Ramani, G. B. (2009). Playing linear number board games but not circular ones improves low-income preschoolers’ numerical understanding. Journal of Educational Psychology, 101, 545-560.
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Moving from logarithmicto linear thinking.
The Great Race Game
More Specifics... * How you count matters.* Make sure to 'count on'
Laski EV and Siegler RS. 2014. Learning from number board games: You learn what you encode. Dev Psychol. 50(3):853-64. - See more at: http://www.parentingscience.com/preschool-math-games.html#sthash.G1eVH9KD.dpuf
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Moving from logarithmicto linear thinking.
The Great Race Game
You can create in your classroom -* Individualize for each student
and their interests* Choose topic based on
curriculum theme
Laski EV and Siegler RS. 2014. Learning from number board games: You learn what you encode. Dev Psychol. 50(3):853-64. - See more at: http://www.parentingscience.com/preschool-math-games.html#sthash.G1eVH9KD.dpuf
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Subitizing & the Approximate Number System
Daniel C. Hyde, Saeeda Khanum, Elizabeth S. Spelke. Brief non-symbolic, approximate number practice enhances subsequent exact symbolic arithmetic in children. Cognition, 2014; 131 (1): 92 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.12.007
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Subitizing & the Approximate Number System
Daniel C. Hyde, Saeeda Khanum, Elizabeth S. Spelke. Brief non-symbolic, approximate number practice enhances subsequent exact symbolic arithmetic in children. Cognition, 2014; 131 (1): 92 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.12.007
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Subitizing & the Approximate Number System
* saying how manyafter a quick showing
* comparing two quantities(Without Counting!)
Daniel C. Hyde, Saeeda Khanum, Elizabeth S. Spelke. Brief non-symbolic, approximate number practice enhances subsequent exact symbolic arithmetic in children. Cognition, 2014; 131 (1): 92 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.12.007
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Subitizing & the Approximate Number System
In the classroom...* dots on paper plates
* objects hidden by cloth
Try it yourself...http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/
2008/09/15/science/20080915_NUMBER_SENSE_GRAP
HIC.html
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Spatial Training
Yi Ling Cheng, Kelly S. Mix. Spatial Training Improves Children's Mathematics Ability. Journal of Cognition and Development, 2012; 120919075341007 DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2012.725186
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Spatial Training
Blocks andTangram Shapes
Pictures from and online tangram game available at http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/math-games/tanagram-game/
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Spatial Training
Blocks andTangram Shapes
* Mental rotation* Fitting blocks into shapes
* Playing with puzzles
Yi Ling Cheng, Kelly S. Mix. Spatial Training Improves Children's Mathematics Ability. Journal of Cognition and Development, 2012; 120919075341007 DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2012.725186
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Spatial Training
Using spatial language(in, on, above, etc)
is also very important!
Pruden SM, Levine SC and Huttenlocher J. 2011. Children's spatial thinking: Does talk about the aptial world matter? Developmental Science (14): 1417-1430. - See more at: http://www.parentingscience.com/spatial-intelligence.html#sthash.8R3JvZfG.dpuf
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Let's Create!
How can you use these ideasin your classroom this week?
How can kids bring the gameshome to play with parents?
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Let's Create!
* Think about a theme(curriculum topic,
student interest, etc)
* Choose a type of game(linear race game, subitizing & ANS,spatial training, or your own idea!)
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Let's Create!
* Share your ideas! :-)
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Conclusion
* I used to think... Now I think...
* What new idea or activityare you going to use
in your classroom next week?
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More Resources
* PBS Kids - http://www.pbs.org/parents/education/math/games/preschool-kindergarten/
* Math at Play -http://blog.mathatplay.org/tag/board-game/
* NCTM Math Games Book -http://www.nctm.org/catalog/product.aspx?ID=14615
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Contact:
Teresa [email protected] @earlymath
Slides will be availableon my blog at
www.teresaeg.com/blog