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Hand-on math just makes the concepts jump off the page.

This was how the book was teaching volume... Explain which cooler has greater capacity? (It is tall and fatter) I feel like if you ask a dumb question, you'll get a dumb answer. Questions really need to be framed better to provide Depth of Knowledge. http://alicekeeler.com/2015/09/27/dokchat-dok-is-hard-lets-talk-about-it/

 I supplemented, by having the kids each pick a big item and a small item and then estimate how many times the smaller item would fit into the larger item to illustrate this concept. It was a lot more engaging.

It also did this unit on weight where it showed 2 pictures of things where students had to guess if it was closer to 10g or 10kg. So, I borrowed scales from the classroom next door. I had them do the same thing, but with 6 objects from around the classroom. 

Our last unit is on area/perimeter. We were exploring the concept of squares & rectangles and how they could have the same area, but the perimeter was smaller the more square-like it was. To illustrate this concept, they had to make 3 different castles out of 16 yellow blocks. They then had to make a moat (perimeter) out of 16 blue blocks. 

They used a combo of either the boxel app, bloxel board, or just the regular classroom tiles. 

We discovered that the long skinny castle, or the slightly rectangular castle design would not work, but the more square one could!