As if LEGOs weren't enough as an awesome childhood toy, one teacher has found another use. wonderful, educational and developmental for this super toy, a tool for children's education. mathematics.
Alycia Zimmerman, a teacher in New York, uses LEGOs to explain fractions, square relationships and other math concepts. In the classroom, small parts are now favorite math manipulation, full of possibility, according to her, who wrote an article for Scholastic that deepens the subject about these potential uses of the toy.
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When analyzing data, upper elementary students explore various ways of expressing the “central tendency” of their data set; that is, several ways to express mean.
When to find the average, arithmetic average, students quickly learn to add up all the data and then divide the total by the number of data points.
But few students really understand why they do this dance of add and then divide to find the mean. While leveling LEGO towers of different heights, students get a first-hand experience of the meaning of averages.
Let's be honest, the first time LEGO bricks are presented during a math class, students will be looking forward to building towers, floors, and big blocks. Don't go against the tide, let the little ones get involved with the toy.
The tip is to give students a predetermined amount of time to “explore the mathematical possibilities of their pieces”. Really, it's just an interesting way to let students play a little, but later reducing the pace if this allowed playtime is desired to engage in knowledge.
One more tip, when preparing a LEGO lesson is rarely to give students access to the full range of LEGO bricks. Ahead of time, prepare Ziploc bags with careful selection of parts that are understood to be necessary for students to complete the assignment.
Also, make sure students understand how to return their parts bags. The bags are closed and the pieces are separated, unless they received a bag of “turrets”.
usually use lego math as a core math activity, and students are remarkably independent when given clearly labeled bags of specific parts.
