By: Mary Kienstra on: December 30, 2016 in: #tlap, student engagement, teamwork, thinking
It is all that. Breakout is the best new gimmick in student engagement. Give a group a series of locks and puzzles and watch them go to work problem solving as a team. My class of 4th and 5th graders recently read The BFG as part of the Global Read Aloud 2016. (See my post about […] 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
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