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AIS Math Support 

Email:Mrs. Schelling jschelling@ccsd.edu

Mrs. Schelling jschelling@ccsd.edu

AIS Math Support teacher at Little Tor Elementary  
* Rockland County Educator of the Week:
http://www.lohud.com/story/news/education/hall-monitor/2014/08/13/educator-of-the-week-clarkstowns-jennifer-schelling/13992179/
* Verizon Innovative Teaching Grant Winner:
http://www.lohud.com/story/news/2017/07/03/rockland-educators-earn-innovative-teaching-grants/443134001/

Websites

• Ooodle
• Open Middle
• Code: Tynker
• Code: Scratch
• Code.org
• Logic Puzzles
• Greg Tang Math Games
• Math and Logic Problems

MRS. SCHELLING'S MATH AMBASSADOR PROGRAM               

The Math Ambassador Program is a newly established student leadership team of Little Tor Fifth Grade students who are eager to share their knowledge and love of math.  This highly respected team of leaders visit Kindergarten classes to teach and facilitate “math play” sessions with small groups of students. The games give children the opportunity to work with numbers in flexible ways, to work through difficult tasks, and talk about math in the world around them.

" I like helping kindergartners gain better number sense and a love of math."  5th Grade Math Ambassador

" Watching them grow to love something educational through fun games is a dream come true."   5th Grade Math Ambassador

"I love math but throughout the years I struggled with it.  I have gotten a lot of extra help from tutors and teachers.  I am so grateful for all their help.  I love to teach these skills and tricks that they have taught me to younger math learners."  5th Grade Math Ambassador

"I love working with kindergartners because you see the light bulb go off and see them learn.  I want them to love math just like I do."  5th Grade Math Ambassador

"I like doing the math! They teach me numbers." Kindergartner 

"They bring fun math games!"

Some of our Innovation Lab Building Bonanza Supplies 

Legos	K’Nex	Keva Planks
Incraftibles	Lincoln Logs	Tinkertoys
Brainflakes	Magna Tiles	Marble Run  / Gravity Maze
Jenga	Zoob Builderz	Popsicle sticks  /  toothpicks
Squigz	Rainbow Toyfrog straw	Makedo Cardboard Construction
Dominos	Play-Doh	Rainbow loombands

Day 1:  Domino Chain Reaction Challenge 

Try the different challenges.  You may modify the designs.  You may even combine the different challenges into an epic domino chain!  Up the Stairs /  Rolling Reactions / Build a Spiral /  Ball Drop / Under the Bridge /  One Path Becomes Two / Falling Towers Direction Changing Levers

Day 2:  Three Little Pigs STEAM Challenge

Build a house using only 12 Marshmellows and toothpicks. The pig must fit inside your house.  After building the house, the “Big Bad Wolf Blow-dryer” will try to blow your house down! 

Day 3:  STEM Tallest Tower Challenge

Your team has 15 minutes to build the tallest tower.  You may only use the materials provided to you.   

Day 4:  Catapult Design 

Build a popsicle stick catapult.  Test out different firing power (pompoms, marshmallows) and measure how far they went.  Even test your firing power by trying to land it in the cup.  

Day 5:  Shadow Skyline

Use a flashlight and ordinary materials to create your own shadow landscape! Shadow Skylines is a light and shadow exploration that uses everyday materials to explore shape, form, and structure.

Day 6:  Marble Run 

Design and build a marble run.  

Board Games that Inspire Mathematical Thinking

Number Sense                                                       Logic

Dominoes (3+)                                                       Sudoku

Chutes & Ladders (up to 7)                                     Checkers

Mancala (6+)

Addition / Subtraction                                        Fractions

tri- FACTa (6+)                                                      Pizza Fraction Fun (7+) 

Mexican Train (8+) *subitizing 

Money                                                                 Addition/Multiplication

Monopoly (8+)                                                       Yahtzee (8+) 

Pay Day (8+)

Life (9+)                                                               Geometry/Spatial Reasoning

Allowance Game (6+)                                            Blokus (7+)

                                                                            Battleship (7+) *Coordinate grid 5th grade

Pattern Recognition & Strategy 

Qwirkle (6+) 

Master Mind (8+) 

Orthello (10+) 

Rummikub (8+)

Connect Four (6+) 

Rack-o (8+) 

Phase 10 (7+) 

Other Fun Games Availiable for Our Board Game Club 

Headbands

Clue

Guess Who

Apples to Apples 

Connect Four Launcers

Jenga

Uno / Uno Roboto 

Trouble

Sorry / Sorry Sliders 

Trivia Pursuit 

Boggle

Scrabble 

Jigsaw Puzzles

Floor is Lava

Don't Break the Ice

Left Center Right

Card Games: Crazy Eights, Old Maid, Pig, War, Go Fish

Candy Land 

 

K-2 Crazy 8s After School Math Club with Mrs. Schelling

 Math gone Wild! Crazy 8's Website

Session 1:  Glow in the Dark Geometry

Session 2: Bouncy Dice Explosion

Session 3:  Spy Training

Session 4:  Cowabunga

Session 5:  Crazy Card Club

Session 6:  Daring Darts

Session 7:  Pixel-palooza

Session 8:  Toilet Paper Olympics

** Donations Welcomed -  we can use 2-ply toilet paper rolls!  Thank you! 

Weekly Summary

Summer Math 

Complete our school summer Tang Math Challenge.  
All the games and books are found on the Tang Website.  

Board Games: There are great games you can play to pass a rainy day... and practice your math, too! You probably already have many of them at home. Here are just a few that I like.

• Counting & Number Recognition: Chutes and Ladders
• Basic Operations: Yahatzee, Monopoly, Payday, Life, S’Math, Mexican Train
• Patterns & Geometry: Quirkle, Blokus
• Coordinate Graphing: Battleship
• Strategy Games: Mancala, Othello, Connect 4, Sudoku
• Cards and Dice games are also great to use to practice math. Check out suggestions below or have your child show you some we have played in group. For example: Multiplication War, Make 10 Memory 

Online Programs: While you drive on your vacation, take out your iPad and practice your math. 

• Dreambox 
• Prodigy
• Xtramath 
• Zearn
• Splash Learn
• Tang Math 

Car time is also good to practice math facts: play Sparkle, skip count, or have family member quiz you. 

Other Real-life Math Activities:

• Taking a vacation – figure out how many miles it is to get there? What is fuel efficiency? (Add to find out the total cost to fill up the tank throughout your trip; divide to calculate the miles driven per gallon of gas; multiply to determine the cost of a fill-up based on your expected travel distance) How fast did you get there? (Use the car’s trip odometer to find out how many miles you’ve driven, and determine your average speed.)
• Take me out to the Ballgame! - Take in a summer baseball game – either at the ballpark or on TV. Baseball’s a natural place to see math in action – from how many more runs does one team have to calculating a pitcher’s ERA to a hitter’s on-base percentage. Record the events of the game using a scorecard.
• Take a trip to the grocery store! - Estimate the total bill based on prices of what you are purchasing. How much does that bunch of bananas weigh? How much will it cost? How much more is one brand of cereal over the other?
• In the kitchen – cook up some math! - Measure all of the ingredients (especially the liquids in the glass measuring cups). Challenge yourself to double the recipe or cut the recipe in half – fractions are everywhere!
• Back to School Supplies- How much will the school supplies cost? Use the advertisements in the Sunday newspapers to find the best deals... and calculate how much you’ll spend to get set for the new school year. 

Check out these websites for more Summer Math Activities

• Summer Math Activities: http://mathgeekmama.com/fun-ways-to-engage-in-math-learning-this-summer/
• Second Grade Card Games: https://www.education.com/slideshow/card-games-second-grade-math/
• Math Games Marilyn Burns: https://www.hmhco.com/products/do-the-math/pdfs/WinWinGamesbyMarilynBurns.pdf