Week 2 Group 8: Game Festival
Welcome to Group 8! Participants: @Anna_Washington, @campdiscoveries, @keetgi, @kam.
Follow the link, then select File-Download - Game Festival.
Please note this is a draft. We will professionally illustrate and copy-edit after including the feedback from this course.
You will be replying to this topic twice: before and after you lead your math circle.
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Reply 1 (before the math circle). Write down your guesses of how the children will respond to each problem or activity in the topic.
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Lead the math circle on the topic.
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Reply 2 (after the math circle). Tell a story of your activity.
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Compare how children play games versus doing activities. What is the same and what is different?
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What was different from your predictions before the math circle, and why?
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How did it feel for you? What were your sources of confusion, joy, frustration, wonder, etc.?
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How did it feel for your students? What worked, what did not?
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How did this experience change the way you teach? How did it help?
- What can we put in the book that would help you and others even more?
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Hi Everyone,
I hope it is okay to answer both replies together.
Before the math circle:
Wait time-I expected there to be a lot of resistance and not much value.
Activity 1-Dice Magic- I expected this activity to be a lot of fun and for the boys to also have fun with it. I expected them to take a while to figure it out. My thoughts is that they would have to physically look at the dice and play around with it for a while. Maybe also get frustrated with it and give up?
Activity 2-Friendly Handshake-My expectations is that they would solve this quickly but have to go through the motions of shaking hands.
Activity 3-What's next?-The expectation here is that the boys would respond with frustration if they were not able to figure it out right away OR that they would immediately get it.
After the math circle:
Wait time-We will be doing this more often. It made the transition easier and really helped all of us get in the right mindset.
Activity 1-This was so much fun! Working on an activity that was a "magic trick" that they would be able to learn and do for others was great. My prediction is that they would get frustrated (they did but not in a bad way). They looked at what was going on and figured out the pattern. Then they tried it a few more times to see if what they thought the pattern was actually held true. This activity (with play involved) helped me to see how frustrating it is to only be taught small pieces of math and not the whole picture. Looking for patterns in every day things helps solidify equations.
Activity 2-They got this one right away without the handshaking but we went through the motions. It was fun to see them come up with the equation that they could use for any amount of people and then test it out.
Activity 3-This was frustrating for the group but they kept working at it. They guessed the correct answer but they then worked on figuring out why it was correct. This was a great activity and we thought it would be great for them to come up with similar problems for their buddies to solve as well.
Overview-the group thought that although some things were frustrating, the harder challenges or problems were more fun and satisfying to solve. They all would like to keep going:)
Thank you so much!
Aimee
