Math Activities To Have Students Do Over The Summer - By Lumos Learning
| 00:03 | Well , we are getting to the time of year | |
| 00:05 | when everybody starts asking me what are some summer math | |
| 00:10 | activities that I can give my students to do over | |
| 00:14 | ? Break ? Well , I'm Christina to novel the | |
| 00:16 | recovering traditionalist , and I hope you'll stick around as | |
| 00:19 | I give you , maybe my unpopular opinion about what | |
| 00:24 | math activities to have students do over the summer in | |
| 00:28 | our quest to build our math minds so we can | |
| 00:32 | build the math minds of our students . Now I | |
| 00:35 | totally get this request because there is such a thing | |
| 00:38 | as the summer slide , where kids understandings will slide | |
| 00:43 | back down during the summer when they're not engaging their | |
| 00:47 | brains in math and reading and science and social studies | |
| 00:51 | . And I gotta tell you , I , my | |
| 00:55 | thought is , Let's have him do nothing . I | |
| 00:59 | know all of the research about that , but I | |
| 01:01 | also know they are kids now . This might be | |
| 01:06 | totally different if you're a high school teacher or whatever | |
| 01:09 | . I'm talking about our elementary kiddos . They have | |
| 01:12 | so much time during the school year that they are | |
| 01:15 | doing school , and I got to tell you , | |
| 01:19 | just like us teachers , our students need a break | |
| 01:23 | as well . So my short answer is , give | |
| 01:27 | them nothing . Now , if you can't do that | |
| 01:31 | because you're required to give something that parents are expecting | |
| 01:34 | something , whatever that might be , I'm going to | |
| 01:37 | give you my two recommendations . And this is coming | |
| 01:40 | from an educator from that lens , but also as | |
| 01:44 | a lens of a parent of four kids who does | |
| 01:48 | not want to spend the time that they have with | |
| 01:51 | their kids during the summer , helping them fill out | |
| 01:54 | those 30 page packets of worksheets . Right ? These | |
| 01:59 | two things are things that I would love because it's | |
| 02:02 | things that I feel like I could do as a | |
| 02:05 | parent and because it helps bring me closer to my | |
| 02:08 | kids . Typically , those packets or worksheets just split | |
| 02:12 | us apart because it's like beaten our heads against each | |
| 02:15 | other . When we're trying to help our kids with | |
| 02:17 | that homework and doing the packets , I want things | |
| 02:21 | that are fun to do with my kids , because | |
| 02:23 | I do . I want them to have fun over | |
| 02:25 | the summer , all right . My first recommendation is | |
| 02:29 | to tell them to play games . Now . I'm | |
| 02:33 | not going to give you a list of games because | |
| 02:35 | you know it just depends upon what your parents have | |
| 02:39 | access to . Like if you come from a higher | |
| 02:43 | SCS kind of school , you can maybe guess that | |
| 02:45 | parents have access to decks of cards and dominoes , | |
| 02:49 | and maybe they have dice to be able to play | |
| 02:51 | yacht , See all of those kinds of things . | |
| 02:53 | But if you come from lower SCS , you may | |
| 02:56 | not be able to assume that parents have access to | |
| 02:59 | these things . So you need to decide activities and | |
| 03:03 | games that they could play that don't require parents to | |
| 03:07 | go out and buy stuff . OK , so keep | |
| 03:10 | that in mind . The other thing I want you | |
| 03:11 | to think about when you're trying to give them ideas | |
| 03:15 | for games is try to make it something that would | |
| 03:18 | span the grade levels like Don't send home activities that | |
| 03:23 | are just for your grade level . And I just | |
| 03:25 | said activities , but I really meant games so don't | |
| 03:27 | like create these games that are just for fifth grade | |
| 03:30 | , because there's a lot of parents who have multiple | |
| 03:33 | age levels of kids , and we can't sit down | |
| 03:36 | and just play the game with the fifth grader and | |
| 03:38 | then play the game with the kindergartner and then play | |
| 03:40 | the game with the third grader , right ? We | |
| 03:42 | want a game that we can all play together because | |
| 03:45 | it not only the biggest part for me is that | |
| 03:48 | it brings my family together . I don't mind doing | |
| 03:52 | educational things when it also incorporates family time . I | |
| 03:56 | feel like that . My kids are at school so | |
| 03:59 | many hours that when they're home with me , I | |
| 04:01 | want to do family stuff with them or just let | |
| 04:03 | them do things that they want to go do as | |
| 04:06 | a child and a kid who wants to go explore | |
| 04:08 | and play outside all of those fun things . So | |
| 04:11 | when I'm doing school work , I wanted to also | |
| 04:15 | be doing things that my family enjoys doing . So | |
| 04:19 | keep those things in mind . My second recommendation is | |
| 04:22 | to put together something that would encourage parents to look | |
| 04:26 | at mathematics in their daily lives like encourage the parents | |
| 04:30 | to take their kids grocery shopping when they are out | |
| 04:34 | on a road trip this summer . Encourage them to | |
| 04:36 | be looking for mathematical things , Even if it's as | |
| 04:39 | simple as how many cows do you think are out | |
| 04:42 | in that field ? I think they might not be | |
| 04:43 | able to count every single one of them , but | |
| 04:45 | they're making estimates . You know all of those things | |
| 04:48 | where we can see mathematics in our daily lives . | |
| 04:50 | I know that I see those and I pull out | |
| 04:53 | those questions with my own Children . But a lot | |
| 04:56 | of parents don't realize to do those things . So | |
| 04:59 | encourage the parents to find mathematics in their daily lives | |
| 05:04 | so that when kids come back to school , they | |
| 05:08 | see how mathematics relates to their lives , and they | |
| 05:11 | are more eager to want to learn it . All | |
| 05:14 | right . I hope that this video has helped you | |
| 05:17 | build your math mind so you can go build the | |
| 05:20 | math minds of your students . Have a great day | |
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DESCRIPTION:
We are getting to the time of year when everyone is asking âWhat summer math activities should I send home with my students?â Watch this short video to keep yourself active with cool & fun math activities
OVERVIEW:
Math Activities To Have Students Do Over The Summer is a free educational video by Lumos Learning.It helps students in grades 8 practice the following standards 8.SP.1,8.SP.2,8.SP.3.
This page not only allows students and teachers view Math Activities To Have Students Do Over The Summer but also find engaging Sample Questions, Apps, Pins, Worksheets, Books related to the following topics.
1. 8.SP.1 : Construct and interpret scatter plots for bivariate measurement data to investigate patterns of association between two quantities. Describe patterns such as clustering, outliers, positive or negative association, linear association, and nonlinear association..
2. 8.SP.2 : Know that straight lines are widely used to model relationships between two quantitative variables. For scatter plots that suggest a linear association, informally fit a straight line, and informally assess the model fit by judging the closeness of the data points to the line..
3. 8.SP.3 : Use the equation of a linear model to solve problems in the context of bivariate measurement data, interpreting the slope and intercept. For example, in a linear model for a biology experiment, interpret a slope of 1.5 cm/hr as meaning that an additional hour of sunlight each day is associated with an additional 1.5 cm in mature plant height..
