Jane Felling is the co-author of the award winning Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks math and literacy series and has been an international speaker for the past 25 years. She has provided workshops in the area of using games as a teaching strategy to thousands of teachers and school districts across North America and has taught students from K - grade 9 as part of her contracts. She has been a featured and invited speaker at the National ASCD several times as well as spoken at the past 20 national NCTM's, and regionals. Jane completed her masters in the area of games as a teaching strategy and is passionate about engaging all learners - teachers and students alike. Over the past two years, Jane has written and published 4 new resources.
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Oh the Math that They'll Know... Box Cars and One-eyed Jacks Primary Math Games Workshop
Presented By
Jane FellingSession Details
| Date | Time |
|---|---|
| May 16, 2016 | 9:00 am to 3:30 pm |
Location
Grade Levels
AllIf you haven’t been to a Box Cars Workshop in the past 2 years, then it’s time for an update. Author Jane Felling has worked extensively over the past 4 years developing new games, journal writing and extensions, and ideas to differentiate activities to provide enrichment, as well as support for ESL and special education. The past two years have seen the publication of 4 new resources packed full of journal writing, student samples, math talk extensions and large format gameboards.
WORKSHOP DETAILS:
Are you looking for engaging and effective ways to help your primary students gain confidence and competence with key math concepts? Come prepared to play math games that incorporate the use of cards, dice, multi-sided dice, number lines, dominoes and other easily found math manipulatives. Concepts covered include:
- Counting, Comparing Numbers, and One-to-One Correspondence
- Operations including strategies for developing fact fluency with understanding Number and Operations in Base Ten
- Understand Place Value Concepts to 1,000's
- Representing and Interpreting Data with Charts and Graphs
Throughout the workshop, you will have opportunity to play each game, learn how to differentiate the activities, how to develop math journal extensions, maximize math talk, and how to use the game activities for assessment purposes. Student samples, gameboards, ideas for whole/small group instruction will be provided. Interspersed will be practical ideas for classroom organization and management to ensure effective implementation of games as a teaching strategy. Ideas for developing weekly lessons plans, and samples will be shared. You will be able to implement what you learn the next day in your classrooms and schools. An extensive handout will be provided.
Resources will be availble for purchase and discounts provided.
Target Audience
Grades 1-3 Math Teachers, Lead Teachers and Administrators