By: Mary Kienstra on: March 12, 2015 in: #tlap, Engagement, Kakooma
My students love to play Kakooma on www.gregtangmath.com . In fact, Kakooma Challenge is the centerpiece of our Friday math routine. I’ve bragged to every teacher I know about how engaging Kakooma is for students and how we use it to learn so many things in my class. Today we competed in a Kakooma Challenge via Google Hang Out with a […] Read more
By: Mary Kienstra on: September 24, 2014 in: Discussion, Engagement, Kakooma, Mean, median
Some days, what you plan to teach is not what your students learn. Friday was one of those days, but in a good way! Every Friday, math class begins with Kakooma Challenge. This game has become quite a favorite. Everyone looks forward to the challenge and hopefully beating the other classes. (Yes, a little […] Read more
By: Mary Kienstra on: September 11, 2014 in: Collaboration, Engagement, enthusiasm, Kakooma, Math
The biggest problem I have this year with my math students is that they are over-enthusiastic about math. I prefer to call it that instead of “talkative”. I joke that their enthusiasm is a good problem to have. This group of students LOVES math. They truly are excited and enthusiastic about everything we are doing. […] Read more
By: Mary Kienstra on: June 9, 2014 in: Engagement, focus, Greg Tang math, Kakooma, teamwork
We are Beebe HM! We love Greg Tang’s Kakooma game in my classes. I’ve written about our weekly Kakooma Challenge many times. But this time, we hit it out of the park! Greg Tang’s website (www.gregtangmath.com) hosted a Kakooma Tournament last week. One part of the tourney was addition, the other multiplication. Lucky for us, […] Read more
By: Mary Kienstra on: June 1, 2014 in: box and whisker plot, Engagement, histogram, Kakooma, Mean, median, outlier
You know my favorite day of the week is Friday because that is Kakooma challenge day in my class. My former post If It’s Friday, It Must Be Kakooma Challenge Day, describes the basics of our weekly Kakooma Challenge day. This post will talk about how we used this data at the end of the […] Read more
By: Mary Kienstra on: May 12, 2014 in: data, Engagement, games, Greg Tang math, Kakooma, Math
Do you have lessons that give you a set of data for the kids to analyze? The text we use has data sets about the length of last names and the percent of cats that have bad breath. For some reason, my students don’t seem to care much about these lessons. This data has no […] Read more
By: Mary Kienstra on: January 17, 2014 in: engagement. computation, Greg Tang, Kakooma, Math, Mean, SmartBoard
Friday has always been a good day at school, but this year Friday has become Kakooma Challenge Day in my classroom. Maybe you’ve heard of the Kakooma game from www.gregtangmath.com If you haven’t, take a look. Kakooma Challenge gets my whole class talking about math. They are so motivated in this […] Read more
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