The second day - a day of playing games

It was the day for playing games. We had 1 hour and a half for each game.....
It is important that pupils first play the original version of the game and then a teacher give them an adjusted game to learning math with.

The first game was Scrabble. It was pretty fun, because we should found and built words in English. And then we play the game in mathematical version »Math-scrabble«. The idea is to put construct equalities instead of words.  We put digits and symbols of  4 mathematical  operations and symbols of equality on tiles.  Each player has to construct validnequalities on a boars, vertically or horizontally, using the tiles that he/she has or ones that are already on the board, like Crosswords. Each tile carries certain points and the players are trying to use them in order to collect as many points as possible.

I realized that for my pupils there should be only two mathematical operation, or even better, only + and later - .

The second game was Connect 4. We have knew that game before, but i never thougt about it in mathematical way.  The goals to achieve are: count relaibly and  sort numbers up to 10 items, understand coordinate systems and find positions, understand line, line section  and distance and improve child's attention. For children with special needs, the goals are to improve attention, and to count reliably.

The third game was Combination 9. It is a game where you should find the right number- the sum of four numbers must be equal to the number in the big circle. There are 4 big circles and 9 smaller, where we put the digit.  At the begining you get 9 numbered pawns.

With this game pupils can practice summation of single-digit numbers up to 30 and adding numbers, items or amounts for producing a sum, reading and writing numbers up to 30, logical thinking.

For children with special needs we should choose only one of the squares, with only one summation of 4 digits.

More information about game Combination 9:
http://detstvoto.net/index.php?newsid=2101

After the course, we had lunch and then I went to the harbour by bus. It was going to rain but I wanted to see the archeological park and buy some souvenirs!

It was magical! The storm was comming, the sea was rough, there was some strange, orange light in the park! But at the end it became dangerous-  I was running or beter escaping in the last second. I found a shelter in a small pastry shop, so it was necessary to order a cake!:)