Investigations: Online Resources and Games

Goals for Today: Become familiar with Investigations Online Resources. How can using the Investigations games help me to assess student learning?

Online Resources

pearsonsuccessnet.com Register, if not already registered. User: NCInvestigations PW: pearsonmath1

Helpful Parts of the Home Page My Account-Manage Products; Select to add all of your grade level materials to My Teacher Resources. Messages-Important for Messaging Parents and Students Resources-Tutorials; Quick Link Help-Windows Search Engine

My Classes and Groups Manage Classes Create Class (can have multiples/students in multiple classes) Products (home access) Click on Class Name to Edit View Roster to add a student

Content Tests Choose Online Assessment from Success Tracker(BOC, EOY, Unit, My Test) Individual Instruction Plan created from BOC Leveled Reader Section

Planning Lesson Planner (Teacher Edition) Assignments (Skills-Content, Standards-CCSS) Choose Standard Choose Activity Assign to Entire Group or Individuals My Tests-Create

Reports Test Scores Mastery Item Analysis Self Assessment

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Games

Why Play Games? Playing games encourages strategic mathematical thinking as students find different strategies for solving problems and it deepens their understanding of numbers. Games, when played repeatedly, support students’ development of computational fluency. Games provide opportunities for practice, often without the need for teachers to provide the problems. Teachers can then observe or assess students, or work with individual or small groups of students. Games have the potential to develop familiarity with the number system and with “benchmark numbers” – such as 10s, 100s, and 1000s and provide engaging opportunities to practice computation, building a deeper understanding of operations. Games provide a school to home connection. Parents can learn about their children’s mathematical thinking by playing games with them at home.

How to Hold Student Accountable While playing games, have students record mathematical equations or representations of the mathematical tasks. This provides data for students and teachers to revisit to examine their mathematical understanding. After playing a game have students reflect on the game by asking them to discuss questions orally or write about them in a mathematics notebook or journal: What skill did you review and practice? What strategies did you use while playing the game? If you were to play the games a second time, what different strategies would you use to be more successful? How could you tweak or modify the game to make it more challenging?

Questions for All Games How did you get your answer? Look for counting on, counting up, decomposing, etc. What strategy did you use? Show me how you knew…. Is there another way to do that? Are your answers reasonable?

Assessment Opportunities Can they subitize numbers on dice? Can they conserve a number and count on? Can they recognize double? Can they recognize one more/one less? Can they do 2 more? Do they know their facts within 10? Are they fluent in adding? Can they do mental math? Can they articulate what strategy they used? Are they using a number line to add/subtract? Can they analyze/evaluate their partners work? Do they understand math vocabulary? Can they record number sentences, strategies, etc. in their math journals? Do they understand place value?

Make sure you push each child to the next strategy!!!

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