Math Workshops & Webinars
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Primary Math Games Workshop
Timeline:
half day up to a two-day workshop
Suggested Attendees:
Pre-kindergarten – through Grade 2/3 teachers, teacher assistants, special education and afterschool program staff, curriculum coordinators, math coaches
Workshop Details
This workshop will help your primary students gain confidence and competence with key math concepts in fun and engaging ways! We’ll teach you a variety of ways to play math games that incorporate the use of cards, dice, multi-sided dice, number lines, dominoes and other easily found math manipulatives. Concepts covered include:
- Counting, Comparing Numbers, and One-to-One Correspondence
- Operations including strategies for developing fact fluency with understanding Number and Operations in Base Ten,
- Understand Place Value Concepts to 1,000’s
- Representing and Interpreting
- Data with Charts and Graphs
Throughout the workshop participants will have the opportunity to play each game, learn how to differentiate the activities, and learn how to develop math journal extensions, maximize math talk, and how to use the game activities for assessment purposes. Student samples, game boards, and ideas for whole/small group instruction will be provided. We’ll also incorporate practical ideas for classroom organization and management to ensure effective implementation of games as a teaching strategy. Ideas for developing weekly lessons plans, and student work samples will be shared. Schools can pre-purchase kits and resources, and participants will be able to implement what they learn the next day in their classrooms and schools.
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Upper Elementary Math Games Workshop
Timeline:
Half day to two day workshop
Suggested Attendees:
Grade 3 – 6 teachers, teacher assistants, special education and afterschool program staff, curriculum coordinators, math coaches.
Workshop Details
This workshop will help your upper elementary students gain confidence and competence with key math concepts in fun and engaging ways! Come prepared to play math games that incorporate the use of cards, dice, multi-sided dice, number lines, fraction manipulatives, dominoes and other easily found math manipulatives. Concepts covered include:
- Understanding Place Value System including Whole Numbers and Decimals
- Fractions, Decimals and Percent including Operations with Fractions
- Numbers and Operations in Base Ten, Multi-Digit Operations
- Fact Fluency Intervention – Basic Facts
- Statistics, Data Management and Organization of Data
Throughout the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to play each game, learn how to differentiate the activities, and learn how to develop math journal extensions, maximize math talk, and how to use the game activities for assessment purposes. Student samples, game-boards, and ideas for whole/small group instruction will be provided. We’ll also provide practical ideas for classroom organization and management to ensure effective implementation of games as a teaching strategy. Ideas for developing weekly lesson plans, and samples will be shared. Schools can pre-purchase kits and resources, and participants will be able to implement what they learn the next day in their classrooms and schools.
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Middle Years Math Games Workshop
Timeline:
Half day to two day workshop
Suggested Attendees:
Grade 5/6 – Grade 8/9 Teachers, Special Education High School teachers, teacher assistants, afterschool program staff, curriculum coordinators, math coaches.
Workshop Details
This workshop will help your upper elementary students gain confidence and competence with key math concepts in fun and engaging ways! Come prepared to play math games that incorporate the use of cards, dice, multi-sided dice, number lines, fraction manipulatives, dominoes and other easily found math manipulatives. Concepts covered include:
- Understanding Place Value System including Whole Numbers and Decimals
- Fractions, Decimals and Percent including Operations with Fractions
- Numbers and Operations in Base Ten, Multi-Digit Operations
- Fact Fluency Intervention – Basic Facts
- Statistics, Data Management and Organization of Data
Throughout the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to play each game, learn how to differentiate the activities, and learn how to develop math journal extensions, maximize math talk, and how to use the game activities for assessment purposes. Student samples, game-boards, and ideas for whole/small group instruction will be provided. We’ll also provide practical ideas for classroom organization and management to ensure effective implementation of games as a teaching strategy. Ideas for developing weekly lesson plans, and samples will be shared. Schools can pre-purchase kits and resources, and participants will be able to implement what they learn the next day in their classrooms and schools.
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Family or Parent Nights
Timeline:
60 – 90 minutes
Suggested Attendees:
Parents, Guardians, Administrators, Select Teachers, and Students
Workshop Details
Parents and students come together to play a wide variety of math games from the award-winning Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks series. Using cards, dice, or dominoes, families will review and strengthen basic math concepts. Our team will provide proven ideas and strategies for learning: basic operations/basic facts, place value, multi-digit operations, order of operations, and more. For middle years, we will review basic skills and advanced math concepts. Playing together builds success and self-esteem for students while making it easy for parents to provide support and encouragement in the home setting.
NOTE: Some schools opt to do a Parent Only Format – no problem, whichever format is chosen, we will still provide an engaging, fun workshop that will help parents work with their children.
21st Century and Title 1 Grants are great sources of funding to provide this type of workshop
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Consultant Classroom Coaching Lessons
Workshop Details
Added onto many of our full day teacher workshops, the Box Cars authors and consultants can visit your school or district for the day or week and teach model lessons to your students. A timetable for the day is constructed with your input and we teach as many students and classes as possible. Teachers can have input into concepts taught to their class, and will observe management and teaching strategies used by the consultants or authors. Teachers learn right alongside their students and experience firsthand how easily and effectively games in their classroom can take place. Teachers and students alike will experience strategies for immediate implementation, differentiation for individualized student success, and encouraging Math Talk. Teachers will be provided a Lesson Observation Guide to help focus their observations and provide a basis for debriefing the lesson later that day by the consultant.
Many schools pair Consultant Classroom Coaching Lessons with a Family Night event. Finishing off a day of Consultant Classroom Coaching Lessons with a Family or Parent night is a great way to build continuity throughout your school community. Consultant Classroom Coaching Lessons can be provided in Kindergarten through 9th Grade classrooms.
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Oh the Math the They’ll Know - Pre K to Kindergarten
Timeline:
90+ minutes
Suggested Attendees:
Early Primary teachers, ELL, special education, teacher assistants
Workshop Details
We’ve put together a tailor made workshop for Pre-Kindergarten/Kindergarten levels. It’s never too early to start teaching key math concepts! Come prepared to play games that incorporate the use of cards, dice, and multi-sided dice and dominoes that teach the following early childhood concepts:
- subitizing
- counting to 5, 10, to 20 and beyond
- comparing numbers as greater or less than, odd even
- counting on from a given number, patterns
- Developing early operations
- doubles
- Make 10 and more
We’ll share Ideas for developing Math Talk, journal drawing/writing, and other response activities throughout the workshop. Participants will learn how to create math stations, use student response for assessment purposes and how to extend the games and activities to the home. Come prepared to play.
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Connecting the Dots - Primary Domino Math Games
Timeline:
90+ minutes
Suggested Attendees:
Kindergarten to Grade 3 teachers, ELL, special education, teacher assistants
Workshop Details
Come prepared to play games that incorporate the use of standard double-six dominoes that teach the following concepts:
- numeration/number sense
- Subitizing
- basic operations
- Multi-digit addition and subtraction
- place value
- Graphing
- and more.
This manipulative is easy to use and integrate into your program, and the games are appealing for all learners to use. We’ll also share game-boards, journal writing extensions, differentiating ideas, and time-saving management tips. Games are great for regular classrooms, after school and special education programs, and are perfect for sharing at family math nights.
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Linking the Learning - Upper Elementary Domino Math Games
Timeline:
90+ minutes
Suggested Attendees:
Grade 3/4 to 6 teachers, special education, teacher assistants
Workshop Details
Come prepared to play games that incorporate the use of standard double-six dominoes that teach the following concepts:
- All operations including multi-digit work
- Fractions
- place value including decimals,
- data management and organization of data.
This manipulative can be easily integrated into your math program and the games are appealing to all learners. We’ll share game-boards, journal writing extensions, differentiating ideas and time-saving management tips. Games are great for regular classrooms, after school and special education programs and are perfect for sharing at family math nights.
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Double Dare You - Double Dice Math Games
Timeline:
90+ minutes
Suggested Attendees:
Primary, Upper Elementary, Middle Years
Workshop Details
Double dice are incredibly popular with students of all grade levels and their teachers. The uniqueness of double dice make students want to use them over and over again. Come prepared to play some of our favorite Box Cars games that incorporate the use of these motivating manipulatives. We use double regular, double 10-sided, double 12-sided and three-in-a-cube dice to teach the following concepts:
- all operations and fact fluency,
- order of operations
- place value
- fractions
- data management and organization of data
- statistics and probability.
We will show you how to extend the games into math journal writing, pull assessment pieces, and how to provide math talk opportunities.
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Fraction Games and Strategies
Timeline:
Half day
Suggested Attendees:
Upper Elementary – Grades 3 to 6
Workshop Details
This workshop can be a standalone workshop for upper elementary teachers. In this workshop participants will play games and learn strategies that use cards, dice, fraction circles, and number lines to help teach the following fraction concepts:
- Equivalency
- common denominators
- Decimals
- Percent
- operations with fractions
- and more.
Games will incorporate the use of engaging manipulatives that help students gain deep understanding of fraction concepts and will be tied to strategies that help students move from a concrete understanding to abstract levels. We will also share thorough lesson plans and teaching sequences. Game-boards will be provided.
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Primary Math Games for Teaching Place Value
Timeline:
90 minutes to a half day
Suggested Attendees:
Kindergarten to Grades 2/3
Workshop Details
Come prepared to play games that incorporate the use of cards, dice, multi-sided place value dice and number lines. Games and strategies will focus on the following concepts:
- naming tens/ones, hundreds
- ordering number to 0 to 1,000’s
- composing/decomposing numbers
- comparing numbers as greatest, least, or between
- beginning rounding strategies
- using benchmarks on number lines
- number patterns using number lines and 100 charts
- and more.
We will share reproducible game-boards, student samples, math talk, and journal writing extensions. Throughout the workshop we’ll provide Ideas for working with this essential part of the curriculum and bringing concepts to life for students with engaging and fun activities.
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Upper Elementary Math Games for Teaching Place Value
Timeline:
90+ minutes to a half day
Suggested Attendees:
Upper Elementary, Grade 4 to 6
Workshop Details
Come prepared to play games that incorporate the use of cards, dice, multi-sided place value dice and number lines. Games and strategies will focus on the following:
- naming, ordering and comparing large numbers
- decimal concepts
- rounding and expanding numbers
- written and standard form
- identifying specific place values
- estimation and patterns.
- composing/decomposing numbers
We will share reproducible game-boards, student samples, math talk, and journal writing extensions. Throughout the workshop we’ll also provide Ideas for working with this essential part of the curriculum and bringing concepts to life for students with engaging and fun activities.
Virtual Workshops
You get to decide the math content we cover!
Our webinars will also teach the following strategies:
- Teaching games with social distancing practices in place
- How to adapt materials and manipulatives for a virtual teaching setting
- How to assess student learning in an in-person, virtual or hybrid setting
- Developing math journals and daily math practice routines with games
If you’re looking for ways to keep your greater school community engaged, consider a virtual Parent night or Family Math Night! We will prioritize games that use cards, regular dice, or dominoes – materials many families already have at home. We can also arrange for schools to pre-purchase family kits and resources which are shipped ahead of time for schools to distribute to participating families.
