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    Making Math Fun Through Movement
    Making Math Fun Through Movement
    Making Math Fun Through Movement
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    Making Math Fun Through Movement

    By Mark Dennison

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    Making Math Fun through Movement explores how to integrate math content with movement.
    With more than sixty math movement games for reinforcing math skills, the guide is an essential resource for teachers, parents, daycare providers, and anyone who wants to help children get healthy and smart. Learn how to:
    encourage children to be physically fit while having fun;
    emphasize the importance of maintaining optimal health;
    enhance and support the ability of children to learn math;
    integrate physical activity throughout a math curriculum.
    The author, a former physical education teacher and now a principal who continues to see inactive and overweight children year after year, explores how standard education ties into a lack of physical activity for many children.
    He also highlights how instead of giving children with disabilities drugs to help them learn and behave, it can be more effective to incorporate physical movement into lessons. He also provides actual lesson plans that involve physical activitiy to meet Common Core standards.
    Make learning fun and help children gain an appreciation for physical fitness with the lessons, exercises, and activities in this guide.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchway Publishing
    Release dateSep 12, 2022
    ISBN9781665727273
    Making Math Fun Through Movement
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    Mark Dennison

    Mark Dennison has been an educator in Maryland for more than twenty-five years. As a former physical education teacher and now a principal, his goal is to equip educators, parents, and students with academic math activities that will support a healthy lifestyle.

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      Making Math Fun Through Movement - Mark Dennison

      Copyright © 2022 Mark Dennison.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

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      ISBN: 978-1-6657-2726-6 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-6657-2727-3 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2022913480

      Archway Publishing rev. date: 09/12/2022

      I would like to acknowledge the following people for their support:

      To my colleagues who have supported me throughout my career

      To Prince George’s County Public School System for giving me the opportunity to educate children

      To my family and friends who supported this project with their words thoughts or deeds.

      Thank you!

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 Integrating the Curriculum—Who Benefits?

      Chapter 2 The Wellness of Children

      Chapter 3 How to Teach Boys

      Chapter 4 Moving with Disabilities

      Chapter 5 The Motivation Theory

      Chapter 6 Tying It All Together

      Chapter 7 Integrated Math through Movement Activities Aligned With Common Core Standards

      References

      After School Program

      About the Author

      INTRODUCTION

      Today more than 9 million children over the age of six are considered obese, which means that they face serious health risks. They are at increased risk as they grow older number for of diseases including Type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. By being obese in a society that stigmatizes this condition, they also may develop low self-esteem that may impair academic and social functioning and carry into adulthood. As a country, the United States is in serious crisis as far as school aged children being overweight and obese. As an educator, we should develop a child physically as well as mentally. Because of standardized testing, physical education and recess in the elementary school has been cut short.

      As a former physical education teacher and now a principal, I continue to see inactive and overweight children year after year. At this point in my career, I want to be a part of the solution instead of allowing this epidemic to continue to take place. One of my goals is to equip educators, parents, day care providers and students with activities and games they can utilize to support healthy lifestyles. Additionally, I want to enhance and support academic subject areas related to Mathematics. We want to be able to connect to students’ learning styles and make learning fun. We find that most teachers will teach the learning style they are most comfortable with or the way they learn the best. Educators must realize that children will learn by doing. Andrews, author of The Fitness Fun for Everyone, states that physical activity and physical movement has provided strong evidence for integration as a major teaching method to help increase student learning.

      Although research in the area of the relationship between physical movement, exercise and academic performance indicates a stronger correlation between the two than previously believed, it does not address the overweight child who does not want to participate in physical activities. Integrating simple physical activities and games into the normal classroom routing provides all children with the opportunities to participate at a moderate level of physical activity of short duration while having academic lessons reinforce in a fun and enjoyable way.

      The following is a short preview of the book:

      Chapter One: Integrating the Curriculum- Who benefits?

      In this chapter you will learn the benefits of integrating physical activity in the school curriculum.

      Chapter Two: The Wellness of Children-The Sweet Factor

      We will explain why children are overweight and not getting enough physical activity. I will share some solutions on how to improve the obesity epidemic.

      Chapter Three: How to Teach Boys-The Kinesthetic Learner

      We will take a closer look at the best way to teach boys inside the classroom.

      Chapter Four: Physical Movement for Students with Disabilities

      Instead of giving children with disabilities drugs to help them learn, chapter four will talk about how physical movement can improve learning and behavior with students.

      Chapter Five: Standard Education

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