Here is a place where you can find ideas for Guided Math centers.
IDEAS FOR CENTERS
1) With Teacher (small group instruction)- This is where the teacher will do direct instruction on the concept, model it, and allow for the students to practice with guidance.
2) Technology- find a game on the computer for the kids to play to reinforce the concept being taught. Only choose 2 or 3 games for the kids to play that week. Remember, they must hit the standards being taught that week.
3) Smartboard/ActivBoard- Put a lesson up on the board and allow for the students to be interactive with it as a small group.
4) Games- Find a board game from the store or create a game for the students to play to reinforce the concept being focused on. You can have more than one center be a game or hands on activity. It could be a worksheet game or one from your math book.
5) Journaling/Problem Solving- Find a problem solving activity for the kids to work on. Then allow them to answer it in their journal and explain how they got their answers. USE THE CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE QUESTIONS or Explempars.
6) Skill and Drill- This will be a review center where students will practice standards from previous weeks. It could be in Worksheet form where the kids do the problems and then check the answers on a sheet you provide which shows them the correct way to do it. Or you can have dry erase boards and have the kids do assigned problems. This is great for flashcard activities for simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, time, money, measurement, etc.
7) Come up with some of your own- Use some of your great lessons you've done in the past, and instead of using them whole group, try them in your guided math centers. Also, look in your teacher's edition math book and see if their are some good hands on activities that you can take from the book and put into a center.
*Get these ideas from Math Exemplars, PICASSO, PICASSO 's Math Constructed Response Questions, your Teacher's Guide Math Book, www.georgiastandards.org , www.mathwire.com , etc.
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