Expected, Inspected, & Respected.
"We do not learn from experience … we learn from reflecting on experience."
-John Dewey |
"We do not learn from experience … we learn from reflecting on experience."
-John Dewey |
During math class on Jan. 24, my fellow pre-service teachers and I played a game where the goal was practicing turning fractions into decimals. The game was ok, but the really fun part for me was working with my opponent to tweak the game and make it even better. Here are the rules we started with:
Base Game Rules
Jack = 11 Queen = 12 King = 13
My partner and I both quickly realized that it was usually unnecessary to convert the fractions into decimals because we could already see who was going to win the round by comparing the fractions. Here's how we decided to modify the game in order to achieve a deeper level of understanding between fractions and decimals. Modified Rules
I imagine this game has already been invented and ours was simply a re-invention, but it was still kind of thrilling to come up with the ideas and play test them. The actual game was almost as fun as inventing it! There were plenty of times when we immediately knew the decimal because it was 1/2 or 3/3 or 2/10 but it's fine that no points were scored on those rounds because that builds automaticity with fractions and conversions.
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