Math Activeness Thursday: Set Out Lines

Recently on Google+ I was reading through my Community pages (I convey an Elementary School Teachers Community past times the agency that anyone who wants to bring together tin give the axe hold out purpose of) in addition to in that location was an article shared on i of the math teachers community most how of import publish lines are.  Kids oftentimes don't convey a expert feel of numbers in addition to their placement.

I watch I would throw out a few ideas to produce amongst publish lines.  Number lines help kids visualize which numbers are closest to zero, higher or lower than each other, in addition to the placement of where numbers stand upward for along the line.

Many times inwards schoolhouse nosotros are entirely supposed to instruct the positive numbers, merely I know my ain children ever wondered if in that location were numbers going the other way.  We shouldn't hold out hesitant to exhibit them that indeed in that location are negatives.  When nosotros instruct a subtraction work nosotros tin give the axe exhibit them that in that location is a negative inwards there.  5-2=3 is also 5+(-2)=3.

In college I had an amazing math instructor that taught us how to instruct higher flat math to immature children inwards elementary ways.  He did a demonstration inwards a mo flat shape amongst poker chips.  The crimson chips were hot chips in addition to the bluish chips were mutual frigidness chips.  He used a thermometer drawing to exhibit how the temperature would learn upward or downwardly according to the chips the kids were given.  The thermometer was basically a publish work inwards the vertical position.

At commence the instructor gave the sec graders to a greater extent than hot chips.  For example: i educatee got ix hot in addition to about other educatee got two cold.  What's the temperature?  The kids figured out it was 7.  But later a few of those, he gave to a greater extent than mutual frigidness chips: v hot chips in addition to 10 mutual frigidness chips.  Guess what?  They figured out it was -5!  You should convey seen how the kids were in addition to then excited to know they could learn below zero!

So, that's i activity yous could produce amongst your students.  I would dearest to listen if they learn equally excited equally the kids inwards that mo flat class.

For today, I made a pocket-size freebie which is i page out of a parcel I am made.  I'm giving away the dark in addition to white re-create of the Lilly Pad Number Line!

The 12 page parcel is $3 if yous desire the colored pages in addition to frogs to learn amongst it : )

With the publish lines, the kids get sum inwards the numbers on the Lilly pads in addition to they tin give the axe produce about dissimilar things amongst them later they are cutting into strips in addition to made into a long horizontal line.  Here are about ideas...

• With a pocket-size edible bean handbag equally a frog, come across what numbers they state on in addition to overstep away along a record.  Have the children compare the numbers.  What was the highest number?  Which publish was landed on the most?
• Have the students overstep away along rails of how many books they convey read amongst the publish line.
• Use the Lilly Pad Number Line for the days of school.
• Use the work to overstep away along rails of daily points inwards the classroom.  You could exercise the negative numbers hither too, merely hopefully the kids are earning plenty points to remain out of the negatives : )

What other things produce yous produce amongst publish lines inwards the classroom?