Accelerating Math Achievement
Addition and Subtraction


Each of our Workshops In a Box contains a 3 ring binder with directions for completing the workshop, a list of materials included in the box, an Evaluation Questionnaire and a Learning Log and Research on Brain Based Learning. Teachers can choose to complete any twelve or more of the activities and actually do at least two of the activities with their class, or a small group of children for a total of five hours.

This make and take workshop includes six board games, three card games, five puzzle piece games, and eight center activities. In many cases there are extra pieces to make more of each of the activities.


Materials We Supply:

• Deck of playing cards
• Die cut packet
• Sticky dots
• Resource binder with pages of information
• Four of each shape card stock puzzles
• Ten sentence strips
• Card stock dominoes
• Four red and four green flashcard wheels
• Twenty card stock children
• Twenty red apples for “apple computer”
• Four 3-section paper or plastic plates

You Supply

• Crayons
• Scissors
• Glue
• Thick Black Sharpie
• Construction paper

Benefits

• You get to work on the workshop in your own time
• Cost effective
• Research based/brain based
• Some materials supplied
• Certificate of participation (5 hours)
• Make and take
• Center activities

Sample Activities from Accelerating Math Achievement