Are you looking for engaging and effective ways to help your upper elementary 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, fraction manipulatives, dominoes and other easily found math manipulatives. Concepts covered include:

• Understanding Place Value System including Whole Numbers and Decimals
• Fractions, Decimals and Percent including Operations with Fractions
• Numbers and Operations in Base Ten, Multi-Digit  Operations
• Fact Fluency Intervention – Basic Facts
• Statistics, Data Management and Organization of Data

Throughout the workshop participant 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, 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.