What Strategies does the Teacher use to Actively Engage Students? How Effective are These?
Sometimes the teacher I observe plays simple games. One game was where students sat on their desks and each student said the next number in a skip counting sequence. If a student said the wrong number, he or she had to sit down. The person who won the game got a prize of $10 in classroom dollars that can be traded in for prizes. I think that's a helpful way to encourage students to memorize skip counting sequences, and skip counting is a good way of solving multiplication problems.
The teacher also has the class sing skip counting songs. For example, counting by fours goes along with the tune from Row, Row, Row your Boat.
I've seen the teacher do small group activities where the students have to come up with story problems as a group. Creating story problems instead of just solving them helps reinforce mathematical concepts. It also takes creativity to come up with good story problems.
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