4 (m)s of effective home schooling during school closures- Doable lessons and examples to do at home with your kids. More videos at https://youtu.be/vEK9VaCBZ9M - From a teacher and a parent you can do this!

2. Manageable – make lessons doable for you and your kids
Find items around the house to teach math
Egg Carton
Twist OffTops
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3. Match– lesson purpose must match expectations
Have your kids add different combinations of numbers thtotal
a definite number (depending on age). In the example shown
kids were working on combinations that equal 20.
Learn addition combinations that equal 20
Demonstrate knowledge of 20
Circle the combinations that equal 20
10 + 5 + 5 7 + 4 + 9 9 + 5 + 5
8 + 8 + 1 8 + 5 + 7 9 + 4 + 7
4 + 9 + 7 8 + 9 + 9 9 + 5 + 3
8 + 8 + 4 10 + 8 + 2 5 + 5 + 5
4 + 4 + 6 6 + 6 + 4 6 + 5 + 9
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4. Match– lesson purpose must match expectations.
Learn to multiply 1 digit numbers.
5 X 3 = 15
5
3
4 X 4 = 16
4
4
Demonstrate knowledge of multiplying 1 digit
numbers
Solve 1 digit number multiplication problems
1 X 1 = ___ 1 X 2 = ___ 1 X 2 = ___
1 X 4 = ___ 1 X 5 = ___ 2 X 1 = ___
2 X 2 = ___ 2 X 3 = ___ 2 X 4 = ___
2 X 5 = ___ 3 X 1 = ___ 3 X 2 = ___
3 X 3 = ___ 3 X 4 = ___ 3 X 5 = ___
4 X 1 = ___ 4 X 2 = ___ 4 X 3 = ___
4 X 4 = ___ 4 X 5 = ___ 5 X 1 = ___
5 X 2 = ____ 5 X 3 = ___ 5 x 4 = ___
This is not a
one time lesson
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5. Match– lesson purpose must match expectations
Purpose to distinguish between colors
Kids place the tops in the correct circles. They also
have to recognize when tops don’t match any of
the circles. At home use colored bowls or draw
circles on paper.
Purpose to distinguish between colors.
red yellow blue
yellowpurple green
Color each shape
You can
read the
words to
them.
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6. Manipulatives – hands on learning engages kids
All of the lessons shown today involved manipulatives - hands on learning. Playing cards
had to be shuffled and organized, small cubes were placed in the sections of the egg
carton and twist off tops were placed in circles.
Twist OffTops
5
5 X 3 = 15
3
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7. Mental – Brain breaks
A list of Brain Breaks
Move and Freeze
Start the music and kids move and dance, stop the music and kids freeze, start again..
Cross Crawl Marching
Cross right arm to left leg at the midline then cross left arm to right leg at the
midline…
Blow Bubbles
Inside or outside the house
PuzzleTime
Have puzzles kids can work on for a few minutes at a time.
PlaydoughTime
Cross Crawl Marching
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