Innovative Math Teaching Tools for Effective Learning

Empowering Future Educators to Create Engaging Math Lessons

Published: 2024.09.27

Category: Children’s Department

Our elementary school education course features a subject major system, allowing students to specialize in a particular subject, including mathematics. This year, two students are participating in the Mathematics Major, aiming to become math experts.

Recently, we explored a case where a first-grade student mistakenly wrote “36” as “306.” We then discussed how to teach “addition with rounding up” and “subtraction with rounding down” in an engaging and easy-to-understand manner. Our experienced teacher emphasized the importance of understanding place values (decimal structure) and how numbers change in units of 10. Students learned specific teaching aids to acquire correct notation and calculation methods and created their own tools.

Our students designed and developed innovative teaching tools to make math learning fun and effective. These tools include:

• Numbers Playing Cards: A set of playing cards that combines concrete objects, tiles, readings, and notations to help students grasp number concepts.
• Number Tongue: A teaching tool that enables students to learn ordinal numbers starting from 0 and understand the decimal system.
• 10’s Complement Guess Card: A card game that helps students calculate ups and downs (heads are 1, tails are 9, etc.).
• Calculator Made from Egg Cartons: A creative tool that supports understanding of numbers using familiar materials.

By creating these innovative teaching tools, our students gained hands-on experience in making math learning more enjoyable and effective for children.