4th & 5th Grade Instructional Videos - Div III
This is the COMPLETE SET of Instructional Videos for Division III (4-5).
Bring Math Pentathlon into your classroom, club, or home with confidence! Easy-to-follow videos to help teachers and parents teach the Division III Math Pentathlon Games with confidence.
These videos are beneficial for adults working with students in the club, classroom, or home settings. In addition to learning the 5 games, the viewer will benefit from:
* More in-depth understanding of the games and instructional strategies;
* Sequencing the Math Pentathlon Program using The Teaching Guides that provide effective and detailed guidance to adults who are teaching the Math Pentathlon Program;
* Curricular activities from Adventures in Problem Solving Book I (K-3) that connect the games with classroom instruction and club use;
* Related assessments from Investigations Binder II (4-7) that provide a deeper and creative focus into the multiple strategies of each game;
* Special pricing on the Div III Instructional Videos is offered when renting or buying the full set of videos.
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FAB-A-DIFFY™ Part 1
For students to be able to play the game of FAB-A-DIFFY™, they must first know the mathematics and essential knowledge of fractions equivalence, arithmetic combinations, and how to connect symbolic procedures with visual models. This video gives students the underlying math behind the game and a...
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FAB-A-DIFFY™ Part 2
After students know the essential math skills behind the game, they are ready to learn FAB-A-DIFFY™. Fraction bars that pictorially represent various fraction values are used in this computational reasoning game. In playing this game students attempt to make arithmetic combinations on the speci...
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Juggle Instructional Video
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JUGGLE™ Instructional Video
In this game players “juggle” polyominoes in order to be the first to complete their 9 x 9 grid-like gameboards. The roll of two dice determines which pieces are selected from five different types of polyominoes, including pentominoes and tetrominoes. In the process of playing the game students...
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QUEEN’S & GUARDS™ Instructional Video
This spatial reasoning game combines the simplicity of rules found in Checkers with the complexity of strategy experienced in Chess. A gameboard of tessellated hexagons that form concentric bands and pawns (queens) and chips (guards) are used to simulate the agonistic pattern of bees in a beehiv...
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STARS & BARS™ Part 1 Pre-Game Activities
This multiple classification-logic game uses geometric attribute cards and a grid-type board to help students develop understanding of multi-variable relationships and algebraic principles. For each play students try to maximize their scores by placing cards onto the gameboard and comparing them...
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Stars & Bars™ Part 2
After students know the essential math skills behind the game they are ready to learn the game of Stars & Bars™. This multiple classification-logic game uses geometric attribute cards and a grid-type board to help students develop understanding of multi-variable relationships and algebraic princ...
