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Games Can Build and Deepen Student Understanding
Are your students having trouble with “basic facts”? After months of practicing facts, do you still witness them using a count all strategy to find a sum or product? Are you having trouble helping your students develop grade-level fluency standards? If so, this initial blog post from the Allegheny Intermediate Unit’s Math & Science Collaborative might help. There are a number of proven strategies for developing fluency with arithmetic operations. One of these strategies is gameplay! Yes, you read that correctly. Playing games can actually help students develop fluency with mathematical operations. Many of us know that it is important...