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 participants will have opportunity to play each game, learn how to differentiate the activities, learn how to develop math journal extensions, maximize math talk, and how to use the game activities for assessment purposes. Student samples, game boards, 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. Participants will be able to implement what they learn the next day in their classrooms and schools.