1. How can playing games make Math lessons more successful?

2. Why games? Non threatening Fun To learn good communication skills
To learn good social skills
To support differentiation
To support higher level thinking
Applicable to many topics

3. What is a game? An activity that can be pursued in small groups
There are simple instructions to follow
There may be a winner
Can be played without support of teacher

4. Classifications of games
Match-up
Question generator
Puzzle
Target board
A set of cards has 0 to 9 both red and blue

5. Match up Given certain instructions, each player places a card down so that they match.
Equivalent fractions
Equivalent ratios
Numbers with 2,3,4,5 factors
Rounding to nearest…
Add to 10 (positive and negative cards,)
Add to 1 (fractions)
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6. Question generator HCF, LCM Tables Prime decomposition Home or away
Coordinates
Equation of a line (given two points)
Area (given dimensions or area and side)
Order fractions, decimals
Pythagorean triplets
Trig ratios
Largest, smallest
Proportion R:B = R:?
Sequences
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7. Puzzle
Order integers, fractions
Follow me cards
Tarzia
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8. Target Board and Board games
Bingo - Four in a line
Snakes and ladders
Standards pack
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9. Show me
10QQ
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10. Bloom’s Taxonomy Create (creating new game/ rules)
Evaluate (coming up with strategies)
Analyse (Trying out strategies)
Apply (playing the game)
Understand
Remember
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11. Kagan – Cooperative Learning
Games can be a successful teaching strategy in which small teams, each with students of different levels of ability, use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject through mathematical communication. Each member of a team is responsible not only for learning what is taught but also for helping teammates learn, thus creating an atmosphere of achievement. Students work through the assignment until all group members successfully understand and complete it.

12. Approaches to learning and teaching
What are the IB approaches to learning skills?
1. Thinking skills
2. Communications skills
3. Social skills
4. Self-management skills
5. Research skills

13. Approaches to learning and teaching
The IB approaches to teaching skills are...
1. based on inquiry
2. focused on conceptual understanding
3. developed in local and global contexts
4. focused on effective teamwork and collaboration
5. differentiated to meet the needs of all learners
6. informed by formative and summative assessment.

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