Announcing Movin' It Math!

About 6 years ago, I came upwards amongst a game to acquire my students upwards in addition to moving only about during math class. I called it Movin' It Math in addition to made many versions on index cards. As the years own got passed in addition to beautiful clip fine art in addition to desktop publishing has gotten easier, my cards own got migrated to calculator generated. Over the in conclusion eleven months, I own got been working on getting them inwards a shareable format. This weekend afterwards many hours of putting terminal touches on, I own got released my foremost four sets. Each ready includes forty cards, directions for Movin' It Math in addition to 10 other activities you lot tin piece of job these cards for. These cards are the ones I uncovering myself using over in addition to over again. We own got been using them everyday inwards K in addition to many days at the foremost of degree 1!

I own got many to a greater extent than versions of Movin' It Math that are sitting equally files on my calculator waiting for finishing touches. This game equally spanned my classes K-6. I own got cards for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, finding fractors, fractions, classifying 2-D in addition to 3-D shapes, classifying angles, geometry damage in addition to more. I am excited to portion these amongst you lot inwards the coming weeks.

Here is a peek at the rules of the game in addition to how I own got been using these cards amongst K&1 students over the yesteryear two months. My foremost degree students are pretty fluent amongst these numbers right away but I encounter many to a greater extent than months of groovy activities for K kids equally they transition from learning numbers 1-10 to learning numbers 11-20

Movin' It Math!

The Caller

This game is a fun means to practise math for a whole class. Before playing this game, you lot volition desire to brand certain your students are familiar amongst these cards. There are forty cards inwards each set. Use the representations your students are most familiar with. You will remove 1 less carte du jour than the issue of kids who are playing this game. Poly spots are VERY handy for playing this game but non required. If you lot own got poly spots, own got kids stand upwards amongst their toes on the border of the spot but non roofing the card. If you lot do non own got poly spots, own got kids stand upwards amongst 1 pes on either side of the card. You volition remove the pocket-size numeral cards for this game. Cut the numeral cards apart in addition to set them inwards a container that your students tin set their hands into.

Toes on Spot

To play the game, pick out 1 tyke to last the caller. This tyke stands yesteryear the bucket amongst the pocket-size cards inwards it. The residuum of the kids travel out uncovering a spot in addition to set their toes on it. When kids acquire to a spot, own got them figure out what their carte du jour is (and continue it to themselves). The caller reaches into the bucket, pulls out a carte du jour in addition to says the issue loudly. If a tyke is on a spot amongst the issue that was called, they are SAFE in addition to don’t move. Everyone else has to motion to a novel spot. The caller too goes in addition to takes whatever spot. One tyke volition last left without a spot. This tyke is the caller for the adjacent round. They travel out to the bucket, line out some other of the pocket-size numeral cards in addition to nation that issue loudly. Anyone who has that issue on their carte du jour is SAFE in addition to doesn’t move. The residuum of the kids remove to motion to a novel spot in addition to figure out what issue is on their novel spot. The caller too takes a spot. The caller is continuously changing amongst each round. You tin continue playing rounds inwards this means until your students own got had enough. There is no winner or halt to this game.

If you lot don't own got spots....

There are many ways to accommodate this game to gibe the size of your class. I own got too used it amongst a pocket-size grouping but uncovering it most successful when at that spot are at to the lowest degree five kids. When kids are novel to this game, specially if they are immature or own got a difficult fourth dimension listening to directions, I volition instruct them the game inwards a grouping of five or in addition to then kids in addition to nosotros volition play equally a whole grouping afterwards kids own got had some sense on a smaller scale.

If you lot uncovering your kids are non moving only about trying to uncovering some other spot because they all desire to last the caller, you lot tin accommodate this game yesteryear having all kids own got a spot in addition to beingness the caller yourself. This industrial plant actually good for some groups of kids. You tin too piece of job telephone telephone sticks to selection a caller for each round.

Take it outside!

This game tin piece of job inwards the classroom if you lot own got some opened upwards infinite but industrial plant actually good inwards a gymnasium or a large opened upwards space. This game is too groovy to play outside! If you lot are playing it outside, having the poly spots makes it much easier. It keeps the cards from getting muddy/dirty in addition to a trivial slice of record betwixt the carte du jour in addition to the spot in addition to the air current isn’t a problem. If you lot are doing it exterior without poly spots, brand certain at that spot isn’t whatever wind!

Once kids are familiar amongst this game, you lot tin switch out the cards for to a greater extent than challenging ones equally the twelvemonth goes on. To encounter all the Movin’ it Math cards available, click here. (At this time, I am only getting started posting these in addition to then to a greater extent than volition become available each week!)

The Cards That Keep Going

When I foremost started out, I had 1 means to piece of job these cards. I speedily learned that if exclusively used each ready of cards I made 1 way, I would last spending a lot of fourth dimension making cards. Because of this, these cards own got evolved into something I piece of job over in addition to over again. In the next pictures, I volition portion amongst you lot some of the other ways I piece of job these cards.

Flash

A groovy means to piece of job on subitizing!

Go Fish

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 game that is tardily to instruct in addition to valuable to know! Any two cards that correspond the same issue tin last a pair!

Compare

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 fun means to innovate in addition to practise using the <, > in addition to = symbols. We similar to play amongst the dominion that whoever has less gets to continue both cards!

Pyramid

I spent hours when I was inwards 6th degree playing the solitaire carte du jour game pyramid 13. In this version of pyramid, nosotros uncovering pairs of cards that correspond the same number.

Flip in addition to Tally

This years' foremost degree grouping is crazy for tallying in addition to keeping track. I made upwards this trivial workstation equally a groovy means to comprise that. I tried it out amongst some K kids this calendar week in addition to it was a chip challenging for some but nosotros are working on it!

Sorting Cards

This is uncomplicated but kids look to actually similar it. We line out the numeral cards, piece of job together to set them inwards lodge across the top of a tabular array or inwards the foremost row of a bag chart. Then nosotros overstep out all the cards in addition to kids set them where they belong. Then nosotros own got a few minutes to await at the cards equally a grouping in addition to create whatever that are wrong. If you lot own got some of the cards out of the deck, this activity tin atomic number 82 to a overnice introduction to ideas well-nigh graphing.

Find a ____

This is my adapted version of Movin' It Math that I similar to play amongst my intervention groups. I set out some dots in addition to some cards in addition to enquire kids to uncovering a number. After each tyke is on a representation of that number, I enquire them to uncovering some other one. It is a groovy means to acquire a pocket-size grouping moving! When it is selection upwards time, I own got each tyke selection upwards all the representations of a given number.

Each Movin' It Math resources includes to a greater extent than ways nosotros piece of job these cards inwards the classroom in addition to much to a greater extent than particular well-nigh how to play each of the games above.

Here are the four sets released in addition to then far!

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Announcing Movin' It Math!