Teach Math with the Wii: Engage Your K-7 Students Through Gaming Technology - Softcover

Hearn, Meghan; Winner, Matthew C

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564843343 ISBN 13: 9781564843340

Publisher: Int Soc for Tech in Education, 2013

Synopsis

Schools are using gaming technology as a way to engage learners and connect with technology tools familiar to students. The authors have embraced the Nintendo Wii as a tool to support math instruction, allowing students to make real-life connections with math concepts.

Wii activities can be engaging, student-friendly data production tools that generate scores, times and rankings for students to explore and discuss in the mathematics classroom. As students play the games, their teacher has an opportunity to guide them through rich dialogues, posing questions to elicit mathematical thinking.

This book includes 48 lesson sparks organised by grade level and aligned to Common Core State Standards.

About this title

About the Author:

Meghan Hearn is an adjunct professor at Notre Dame University of Maryland, USA and a math support teacher at Veterans Elementary School in Ellicott, Maryland, USA.

Matthew C. Winner is a library media specialist at Longfellow Elementary School in Columbia, Maryland, USA. An avid gamer, he also blogs at The Busy Library (busy librarian.com).

About this edition

• Publisher: Int Soc for Tech in Education
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1564843343
• ISBN 13: 9781564843340
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160