Today my students were off to the races to see who was the speediest Flash of all! This mission was all about fact fluency. All week my students have focused on tackling word problems, so I wanted to give them the opportunity to practice straight algorithms. I split my class into groups of three, and the goal was simple: to get to the end of the board game before any other team. Before we started, I had each team come up with a name that had something to do with speed... you can see we had lots of names involving "lightening" and "cheetahs." :)
Each team was given a white board, and for every problem they had to switch who was the recorder. Everyone in the team could help out, but this eliminated any one person from doing all of the work. As soon as the problem was solved, everyone in the group had to raise their hand. The first team to answer the problem got to roll a dice and move that many spaces on the board. Sprinkled into the deck were challenge cards, and in that case, students answered a word problem. On each card, it said to move forward 1, 2, or 3 spaces, so they got those spaces plus the roll on the die. These kept it interesting because there was constantly a change of who was in the lead. The kids had so much fun racing to the finish line, and they got lots of practice adding 2 digit numbers!
Each team was given a white board, and for every problem they had to switch who was the recorder. Everyone in the team could help out, but this eliminated any one person from doing all of the work. As soon as the problem was solved, everyone in the group had to raise their hand. The first team to answer the problem got to roll a dice and move that many spaces on the board. Sprinkled into the deck were challenge cards, and in that case, students answered a word problem. On each card, it said to move forward 1, 2, or 3 spaces, so they got those spaces plus the roll on the die. These kept it interesting because there was constantly a change of who was in the lead. The kids had so much fun racing to the finish line, and they got lots of practice adding 2 digit numbers!
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