10 Creative Ways to

Teach Math
 Confucius
I HEAR AND I FORGET.
I SEE AND I REMEMBER.
I DO AND I UNDERSTAND.
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teach math

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Use Use Use
Dramatizat children’s children’s
ion bodies play
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Use children’s
Use children’s toys
natural creativity

Use children’s
Use children’s
problem solving
stories
abilities
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Use
Technology
Use assessment to
Use a variety of
measure children’s
strategies
learning
 Creative ways to
teach math

Use dramatization
Invite children pretend to be in a ball or a box,
feeling the faces, edges, and corners and to
dramatize simple arithmetic problems such as:
Three frogs jumped in the pond, one more,
how many are there in all?
 Creative ways to
teach math

Use children’s bodies

• Suggest that children show how many feet,
mouth and so on they have.
• Invite children to show numbers with
fingers such as: How old are you?
 Creative ways to
teach math

Use children’s play

Engage children in block that allows them to
do mathematics in numerous ways including
sorting, creating symmetric designs and
buildings, making patterns and so forth.
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Encourage children to use scenes and toys to act
Use children’s toys
out situations such as three cars on the road or
two monkeys in the trees.
 10 creative ways to teach math

Share books with children that address mathematics but

also good stories.

Use children’s
stories
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Use children’s
natural creativity

Children ideas about mathematics should be discussed with all

children.
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• Ask children to describe how they would figure out

problems such as how many snacks they would need if a
guest joining the group.
• Encourage the children to use their manipulatives or
whatever else they might be handy for problem solving.

Use children’s
problem solving
abilities
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Bring
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everywhere
such as asking Use a research
based curriculum
Use a variety of the children to
to incorporate a
strategies clean up a given sequence series of
shape. learning activities.
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9 Use photographs to aid

discussions and
reflections with Use gadgets wisely
children, curriculum to mathematize
planning and situations and
Use Technology communication. provide
individualized
instruction.
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10 Use observations,
discussions with
children, and small – And to make
Use assessments to group activities to informed decisions
measure children’s learn about children’s about what each
mathematics mathematical thinking child might be able
learning to learn from
future experiences.
 Implications
Of
Teaching Mathematics
 Teaching strategies that reflects
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Connect new and prior

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knowledge

Provide opportunities to engage

3 mathematical talk

Encourage and allow reflective

4 thoughts
 Encourage multiple
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Treat errors as teachable

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moments

7 Scaffold new content

8 Honor diversity
Any Questions?