LEARNING CENTERS

Learning Centers: News & Resources

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MATH-OPOLY

The first one is a Math-opoly bulletin board game. This was a teacher-led center that was created to help students in 4th grade review concepts for the PSSAs. The teacher would sit with the students as they played the game of Monopoly with a few twists. During the game, the students had to answer math problems, ranging from word problems to simple multiplication problems. When a student landed on a property that was not owned, they were required to answer a math problem correctly before they decided if they wanted to buy the property or not. This was the same for chance spaces. When the students would land on a chance space, they would have to answer the question correctly to be given the reward or to stay out of jail. Each class was broken up into teams of four. Two teams would play each day. The five 4th grade classes were playing against each other for a small prize at the end of the month. The children loved this activity & asked to continue to play every day.

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MAKING CHANGE

The second teacher-led center that was created during this field experience was a game called "Making Change." The students were not very familiar with money and making change so this game allowed the students to start with $0 and build up to a quarter in round one. In round two, students started with a quarter and broke it down into $0. Both rounds were played by rolling a dice and adding the amount they rolled or taking away the amount they rolled.

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OH, GOOD GRAPH

Another teacher-led learning center that was created for a first grade classroom, to help students review the math concept of graphing. The students were having some trouble with the concept, so I developed a bulletin board on a tri-fold to help the students create their own graphs for different questions.

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DO YOU WANT TO BUILD A SNOWMAN?

The last math center that was created for the first grade classroom was an addition and subtraction snowman center. This was also a bulletin board center created on a tri-fold. Each snowman had a different addition or subtraction problem. Each hat had a different answer on it. The students then had to match the hat with the correct addition or subtraction problem.