Integers board game- logic, people, word, body, body smart

At the end of our math unit, Integers, students were given a choice of three activities: whiteboard tutorial video, board game or video game show. In this example, students are playing a “board game” designed by two grade 7 students. Each player receives three yellow “answer” chips which have either positive or negative integers on them. The blue cards are placed face down. Player A flips two cards over and find the sum or difference to try and match one of their yellow chips. For example, if I flip over a 3 and a 4 and I have a -1 chip, I can claim the cards as (+3) + (-4).

This game is an creative combination of go-fish and memory. Very impressive!

Pre Unit Poster: visual, people, logic smarts

This activity is designed to build context before we dive into a new math unit. In this unit- Transformations, students were given about 25 images of rotation, reflection, translation and Cartesian planes. Working in small groups of 2-3, students looked at the images (in a pile at the front of the classroom) and searched for the ones they thought corresponded to their poster topic. Once all the pictures from the original pile were selected, students then glued them on, drew lines of reflection or rotation, translation arrows or x and y axis and described where the object might be used in real life, and how the math helped to explain movement. Presentations to the class helped to show misconceptions (for example- the rotation of the umbrella was not about the outside but the pole that was being held as a point of rotation).