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Activities and worksheets for inclusive teaching in primary school
Product: Book
Trim size in cm: 21x29,7cm
Pages: 216
ISBN: 978-88-590-2860-4
Publication date: 01/02/2022
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This practical and operational volume offers numerous work units, with multiple activities and worksheets, organized from the first to the fifth grade, for using the POP-IT tool with mathematics. The 10×10 format, in particular, is structured like a 100 chart and provides a spatial support manipulative which is useful for consolidating mathematical skills and concepts. In addition, thanks to its playful component, it promotes motivation, involvement and inclusion.
Activities with the POP-IT
Mathematics with the POP-IT offers five operational proposals, one for each primary school class, consisting of multiple work units with numerous activities organized on the same methodological- procedural structure. Further developments are also planned for some activities and Inclusive advice is provided to effectively involve pupils with Special Educational Needs. By framing the QRcodes near the title, it is possible to view in-depth videos and explanations. With the worksheets in the Appendix, also available in color in the Online Resources, children can consolidate the skills achieved in each activity, putting their creativity into play to invent new activities and reflect on the work they have done. Attached is a poster with the image of the POP-IT to hang in the classroom.
INDEX
Ch. 1 Educational-didactic potential of the POP-IT
Ch. 2 The POP-IT at school: the methodological structure of the volume
WORK UNITS – Activities with the POP-IT
1st GRADE
Exploration and consolidation of prerequisites
WU 1.1 – Aspects of numbers (cardinality and ordinality)
WU 1.2 – Numbering and numerical manipulatives
WU 1.3 – Calculations with the POP-IT
WU 1.4 – Problematic situations with addition and subtraction
WU 1.5 – Shapes on a plane: symmetry and Cartesian coordinates
2nd GRADE
WU 2.1 – Comparing and ordering numbers
WU 2.2 – Quick calculations with addition and subtraction
WU 2.3 – Multiplication and division
WU 2.4 – Geometric shapes and coding
3rd GRADE
WU 3.1 – Strategies for quick calculations
WU 3.2 – Rational numbers and fractions
WU 3.3 – Isopermetric polygons and pixel art
4th GRADE
WU 4.1 – Advanced mental calculations
WU 4.2 – Rational numbers
WU 4.3 – Equi-extended shapes and to-scale representations
5th GRADE
WU 5.1 – Multiples, divisors, and prime numbers
WU 5.2 – Expressions
WU 5.3 – Isometries: translations and rotations
APPENDIX – Worksheets
Activities and worksheets for an inclusive didactics in primary school
The POP-IT in the 10 x 10 format can be used effectively as a learning tool in primary school. Being structured like the chart of 100 numbers, it provides manipulative-spatial support which is useful for consolidating skills and concepts. In addition, thanks to its playful component, it promotes motivation, involvement and inclusion.
The volume Mathematics with the POP-IT offers numerous learning units with multiple activities and worksheets for using the POP-IT applied to mathematics, from grade one to five of primary school, to consolidate and enhance concepts and strategies.
Structure of the volume
The volume offers five working proposals, one for each primary school class, made up of multiple Learning units with numerous activities organized with the same methodological-procedural structure.
Each Learning unit opens with a description:
Each activity is proposed according to the context of the child, and not dictated from above. We use the POP-IT not only because we want to learn mathematics, but to solve a real and concrete problem that is gradually proposed.
Furthermore, each activity illustrates in detail:
By framing the QRcodes placed near the title, it is possible to view in-depth videos and explanations
The worksheets in the Appendix allow the children to consolidate the skills achieved in each activity, put their creativity into play to invent new activities to reflect on the work done.
Leaf through some selected pages from the book that have been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation:
An inclusive tool
The extremely inclusive nature of the POP-IT is an exceptional aspect: all children, even those with Special Educational Needs, can use it together and in the same way, activating and exploiting the sensory channel with which they learn best. Being a fidget toy, its use will bring peace of mind and favours stress relief with consequent greater adaptation to situations in the classroom.
THE AUTHORS
Giuseppina Gentili Multimedia teacher and trainer, she graduated from the University of Macerata, where she was later part of the scientific organizing committee of the annual Summer School on Gardner's Theory. Currently, in addition to teaching, she coordinates the IMAS (Multiple Intelligences At School) action research group and carries out training activities at the Erickson Study Center in Trento.
Valeria Razzini Primary school teacher, specialized in inclusive teaching, she collaborates as a trainer and Communication teacher. She holds a second degree in Primary Education Sciences from the University of Reggio Emilia and specialization in Specific Learning Disorders and Special Educational Needs. She has published several essays on the teaching of mathematics.
