Math centres are a great way to monitor small groups of students engaging in a task. It allows time for observation to see if students require further assistance in a certain area. It also fosters and builds upon collaboration with their peers. The photos above show two different types of math centres. The first centre is a spatial awareness activity that challenges students to fit all of their pentominoes in a rectangle. This activity is created to improve spatial sense by challenging students and causing cognitive dissonance. This activity is a huge hit and students often find them self back at this centre when they have extra time.
The second centre in the set of photos are grocery ad comparisons. They are required to find which store has the best prices for the same product. Students have been working on rate in class. This activity allows students to make connections to real life, they can see that this type of math strand is relevant to their lives in certain ways like buying products at stores. This math translates to parts of their lives, as students came up to me saying that they were calculating rate while grocery shopping with their parents.
