Tuesday 19 February 2013

Tangram Geometry Center


Tangram Fun! 

    One of todays math centers uses one of my favourite classroom resources; technology. The students are finishing up a geometry unit in math and have had practice comparing and classifying two and three dimension shapes as well as sorting them by their properties. This SMART Board activity uses 7 different geometric shapes to make fun pictures and is available free online. This is only one of many free learning games available on www.pbskids.org. In this center there is always one student at the SMART Board, while the others are waiting they too create the picture using live tangrams and discuss the each shapes properties. Students love this activity and it is a fun culminating task for a units end. It is also another way students create real life objects from shapes, recognize transformations and identify angles and use shapes.  


Here are some more great free websites for Primary Math games that can be used on the smart board:
www.abcya.com
www.coolmathforkids.com
www.learningmathforkids.com/math_games
www.coolmath-games.com
www.kidsnumbers.com
www.kidsnumbers.com
Our students on the SMART Board:
















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