Game On! A Playful Approach to Fact Fluency & Flexible Thinking

1045 Cook Road,Grosse Pointe Woods MI 48236

18 April, 2022

Description

Say goodbye to rote memorization and hello to a new way of promoting fact fluency and flexible thinking through math games. What: An in-person workshop for K-8 educators and administrators Investment: $125 per person, which includes: All Workshop SessionsBreakfast and LunchMath Game Kits for the Classroom/HomeState of Michigan SCECHsSay goodbye to rote memorization and hello to a new way of promoting fact fluency and flexible thinking through math games. We’ll share lessons learned as we strategically infused math games into our K-6 classrooms throughout the last several years. Hear about University Liggett School's Math Game Night and the impact it had on students and parents. Roll the dice and come play our favorite games! In this workshop we will: Explore the motivation behind Liggett's shift to using math games to promote fact fluency and flexible thinking and our decision to leave rote memorization behind.Describe the process of the making the curricular shift from both the departmental level and as well as in the individual classrooms at the K-8 level.Provide resources that we used to engage parents during our Math Game Night which left families engaged, excited and energized.Learner Outcomes: Participants will learn how we engaged members of our math department and classroom teachers to create buy-in for this shift.Participants will learn how we built our repertoire of homemade and commercial games and how/when we work these games into our math classesParticipants will get to play some of our favorite games and they will leave with a list of vetted games, directions on how to play them, along with resources to share with students and parents to promote playing math games at home.