Tagged with ' Kinesthetic Activities'

While on hall duty during my first year of teaching, I was surprised to see our math department chair leading her Calculus students to a large common area in the school. Curious, I checked in on them a few minutes after the class had started and found that they were plotting “points” by standing on a large coordinate grid mat on the floor. After watching the teacher use those mats over and over with students in Algebra 1 all the way through Calculus, I realized the value of this kinesthetic learning experience. Her students understood the concepts better, and were more engaged, because they were out of their seats and actively creating a life-sized visual model.