Math
Card Games to Support Number Sense
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Representing Numbers: Place Value Unit
We are beginning our Place Value Unit. Throughout this unit students will learn to read, represent, compare, and order whole numbers to 1 000 000.
Many students have been using a Place Value Chart in class to help organize their thinking. Feel free to print a copy to use for practice at home. This may also be helpful when playing the games below. Tip: Place the chart in a Ziplock bag or a plastic sheet protector and use a dry erase marker.
- Watch this Study Jams Video to explain Place Value.
- This Study Jams Activity explains Expanded Form. Click "Watch Out" on the top Menu Bar to see how to use a Place Value Chart to help you, then click on "Try It" and see how well you do.
The links below are some games that can help reinforce these skills. Enjoy :)
- Football Math Place Value Game - This game reviews the value of digits (i.e. which digit is in the ten thousands place?).
- Place Value Hockey - Choose Level 2 to match our Grade 6 Expectations. Try both the Numerals option as well as the Place Values option.
Patterning Unit
The following links will help strengthen your understanding of our patterning unit. Please visit Hapara Workspace for specific lesson summaries, learning goals and worksheets.
Watch this lesson on Summarizing and Extending Patterns.
Watch this lesson on Finding the Rule for a Function Machine.
- Nelson Education Identifying Number Patterns Quiz
- Nelson Education Describing Relationships in Tables Quiz
- Identifying patterns and trends
Try this "Find the Rule" activity using an Input/Output machine. Note, these only have one step.
This Math Playground Input/Output Machine activity is great. I would click on Beginner, but then change the level (at the bottom) while playing. Good luck!
Math Frog has a good Stop That Creature game that allows you to determine the relationship between two sets of numbers to save a town from creatures.
Number Patterns and Terms - Try this Math Frog Number Grid activity where you fill empty squares in a grid containing both a horizontal pattern and a vertical pattern. When you click on the link, scroll to the bottom of the window and then select Random - Medium to begin your first puzzle. After that, try a more difficult puzzle.
You can also read these examples that show how to find a pattern rule.
Geometry & Spatial Sense:
Location & Transformations
Transformation song!
Our Learning Goals:
- I can use a coordinate grid to describe locations of points and shapes.
- I can rotate a shape in different ways and predict the result of the rotation.
- Mail Room Mix Up Game (to practise rotations)
- I can perform combinations of reflections, rotations, and translations.
- Khan Academy Geometric Transformations video.
Parents/Guardians,
Before reading anything else on my math page, PLEASE read the article to the left., then scroll down to see more about what we are learning.
For those who are interested, the documents below show the continuum from Grades 4, 5 and 6 in each of the five math strands.
Copy of mathGS_continuum.pdfCopy of mathNS_continuum.pdfCopy of mathME_continuum.pdfCopy of mathDM_continuum.pdfCopy of mathPA_continuum.pdf