concrete
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Monthly Budget – Introduction
Helping students understand and implement a monthly budget is challenging, especially for students with disabilities that make it harder for students to conceptualize abstract ideas. I previously posted about a full budget activity. This post shows a means of scaffolding the concept of partitioning money in a budget context. The idea is to keep it…
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Subtraction within 10 – Jamboard
This post presents a Google Jamboard manipulative activity to help scaffold the act of subtraction which helps unpack the concept of subtraction. Overview The Jamboard can be individualized with Google Images. The can allow for context. In this example, maybe the context is there are 7 players and 4 have an injury or on COVID…
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Fraction Multiplication with Cookies
Fractions are challenging. Multiplying fractions is really challenging! This post presents a Google Jamboard to introduce students to the concept of multiplication of fractions. Overview The artifact is chunked to incrementally move from multiplication of whole numbers to whole number and fraction to multiplication of fractions. The representation of multiplication as number of objects in…
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Exponent Rules with Jamboard
The Product and Quotient Rules are challenging largely because there are few ways to present them in an accessible format. This post outlines an approach using manipulatives on a Google Jamboard. Jamboard The Jamboard activity involves using moveable variables as manipulatives to provide a hands on approach to learning the rules. The first slide presents…
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Introduction to Adding Integers
Operations on integers and integers in general is challenging for many students. Negative numbers are abstract. Whole numbers and fractions can be represented with images. The activity presented draws upon student prior knowledge of thumbs up and down in a vote to make negative more accessible. The following images are from a Jamboard. Here are…
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Combining Like Terms – From Concrete to Symbolic Form
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Group Model for Proportional Relationships and Slope Application
If you find this helpful, maybe consider making a small donation to help build an accessible playscape for children with disabilities. In my experience, many students struggle with translating word problems modeled by a proportional relationship or a linear function into a algebraic expression or equation. (Image below.) Here is a link to a Jamboard…
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Grumpy Cat Multiplication
If you find this helpful, maybe consider making a small donation to help build an accessible playscape for children with disabilities. Here is a CRA approach to multiplication that can be individualized. I created this one for a student who loves cats. Here is a link to the Jamboard. You make a copy by clicking…
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Grumpy Cat Multiplication
If you find this helpful, maybe consider making a small donation to help build an accessible playscape for children with disabilities. Here is a CRA approach to multiplication that can be individualized. I created this one for a student who loves cats. Here is a link to the Jamboard. You make a copy by clicking…
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Online Personalized Consumer Math Board Game
The game is played on a Jamboard. There are moveable game pieces on the left (Lego figures chosen to mirror the players – no hair is me), along with movable bills. There is a white rectangle partially covering the cashier’s money. It is a moveable rectangle I use to reveal the money when the cashier…