ERIC Number: EJ1264495
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Jul
Pages: 7
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Dominoes: Promoting Units Construction and Coordination
MacDonald, Beth L.; Moss, Diana L.; Hunt, Jessica H.
Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, v113 n7 p551-557 Jul 2020
In this article, the authors share how gameplay with dominoes can leverage students' quantitative reasoning to promote number development and additive reasoning. This article explores three domino games (Basic Dominoes, Just Before/Just After, and Ten Train), and considers the following: (1) rules and details; (2) students' subitizing and unit construction and coordination; and (3) teachers' questions, students' productive struggle, and content standards. By intentionally connecting gameplay with dominoes to students' number and operation construction, the authors illustrate how educators can leverage students' game strategies to support the development of mathematical reasoning (NCTM 2014).
Descriptors: Games, Mathematics Instruction, Computation, Numeracy, Game Based Learning, Mathematics Activities, Grade 1, Elementary School Mathematics
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Grade 1; Primary Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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