#examples of hands-on activities

[saiinternationalschool]

Learn Mathematics through Hands-on Activity for Students

Mathematics is frequently seen as a complicated and abstract topic, which causes students to become distracted and anxious. Hands-on activities, on the other hand, have the potential to revolutionize the learning experience by making arithmetic more engaging, interactive, and accessible. By adding manipulatives and real-world applications, children can gain a better comprehension of mathematical ideas, encouraging a lifetime love of the subject.

Benefits of Hands-on Learning

Hands-on mathematics activities have several significant benefits. They help to demystify difficult topics by breaking them down into tangible components. This strategy encourages student collaboration because many exercises may be completed in groups, boosting communication and teamwork. Furthermore, hands-on exercises can boost confidence; students who struggle with conventional methods frequently succeed and like these interactive projects.

Furthermore, these activities promote discovery and innovation. Instead of memorizing formulas and methods, students are taught to experiment and uncover mathematical concepts through trial and error. This practical learning method can spark curiosity and a lifelong interest in mathematics.

Examples of Hands-on Activities

Manipulatives for Elementary Students

Blocks, counters, and geometric forms are extremely useful manipulatives for young students. These tools enable students to visualize numbers, patterns, and spatial relationships. For example, utilizing coloured blocks to represent various numbers might help students comprehend addition and subtraction. Similarly, geometric forms can be used to explore ideas such as symmetry, area, and perimeter.

Fun Maths Games to Play in the Classroom

Maths games that encourage students to solve puzzles or accomplish tasks can make learning more engaging and competitive. Board games, card games, and digital apps sometimes include mathematical difficulties that involve strategic thinking. For example, games like "Math Bingo" and "Sudoku" promote quick mental calculations and logical reasoning.

Project-Based Learning

Long-term projects involving mathematical concepts can lead to a better understanding of the subject. For example, students can design a survey, collect data, and use statistical methods to assess the results. Another assignment could be to design a tiny garden, which requires measurements, area calculations, and a grasp of proportions.

Implementing Hands-on Learning for Students In Classroom

To integrate hands-on activities into your teaching practice,start small. Begin with simple manipulatives or activities and gradually increase complexity. Secondly, make it relevant by connecting creative maths activities to real-world scenarios or students' interests which in turn will lead to encouraging exploration. Allow students to discover mathematical concepts through trial and error.

Keeping all of it in mind, a group of young SAIoneers in Class IV launched on an exciting adventure into the world of mathematics via a hands-on exercise. The students were inspired by their curiosity and propelled by their creativity as they participated in an interactive lesson centered on the basic idea of adding value using building blocks. Read more.

The classroom was alive with activity as students excitedly engaged in numerical operations, handling physical items to understand the abstract idea of addition. This tactile experience not only strengthened their comprehension of mathematical procedures, but also helped children acquire important abilities like problem solving, critical thinking, and cooperation.

Conclusion

Introducing hands-on activities into math education is an effective method for increasing student involvement and knowledge. By making mathematics interactive and relevant, educators may improve the learning experience, making it more interesting and effective. As students interact, study, and experiment with mathematical concepts, they gain a better understanding and mastery of the topic, laying the groundwork for future academic and everyday success.

[chipjrwibignaturals]

one thing about mumbo is that he loves a hard sell. without fail he will absolutely be like “okay but could i ask you to please sabotage yourself? thanks in advance ^-^” it’s so funny

[chipistrate]

I think my one real issue with Vanny and GGY coming back in future installments is just,,, we didn't get any real time with 3 star fam??

Like- we never saw their dynamic, we JUST got confirmation they were even canon only 5 months ago, and now that's all going away before we can even see them interact and we're back to square one with them being Glitchtrapped again?

It's a really interesting concept, Cassie freeing Mimic and getting the two re-Glitchtrapped- I'm not upset about the idea at all, I love it!! I just wish we'd gotten some time with 3 star fam first,,

The best thing I could compare it too would maybe be the Metal Virus saga in the Sonic IDW comics? There were new characters in IDW that we'd basically just met and didn't know a whole lot about, and then they were thrown into a huge climatic saga that felt like it'd rely on us knowing the characters and their dynamics really well and being super attached to them, but we'd practically just met them. It didn't make the saga bad of course, it was amazing! It just felt like it was way too soon in the comics life span and should've come later once we'd gotten to see more of the characters personalities and dynamics.

Just- TLDR; neat concept neat idea I want to see where it goes, but if that's where we're going next with the series then it was done way too soon and we should've gotten at least one installment with 3 star fam before this arc.

[themyscirah]

Reading shit comics kind of sucks but at least I get the satisfaction of proving my own point w this

[poetryqueer]

planning document must be going well I just said the words “explaining the endurance of Platonism could be the life I’m living” to myself. Alone. At 2:30am. Because yeah. Could be.

[tfa-archived]

if there's one thing I've learned in the last four years since getting back into star wars, it's this: lesbians 🤝 asexuals "we love Poe Dameron"

[arcade-confetti]

Theyre going to think I like canon and purely canon if I keep going on like this

[alltimefail-sims]

Getting online when T Sw**t does literally anything...

Every tag. Every fandom. Fanfic titles. Retconned characters (this character is a sw***ie, this character is this song coded, this ship is so that song coded and so on). Fan Edits out the ass. Audio clips, lyric quotes, hot takes on Twitter/Instagram/Tumblr/YouTube/TikTok. A cruel, unending slew of exposure you did not ask for lmfao

[sucrose-soymilk]

hadn’t really regressed in a While and i didn’t realize how much i missed/dareisay needed it until i had the free time and ability to do so over the last few days and i have to say. i’m feeling a bit better

[white-weasel]

Do…. Do people actually have an issue with stuff being written in present tense?

[rotshop]

no sorry i do have more to say on this actually. this layout is so indistinguishable from twitter that i genuinely cannot see the appeal in using this site anymore because. erm. well. i have twitter right there. i can just use that if i want to. in fact i would probably like it MORE there because at least thats familiar and not some massive frankensteined overhaul of a layout that's stayed relatively the same for years upon years. yes obviously there are differences in management, but i dont like staff here either. like you all fucking remember that massive wave of bots. mobile has been a warzone. the desktop version is held together with tape and twigs.

also the excuse that this is 'to help twitter users adjust !!' is ummm bullshit and also a lie an also bullshit. like first of all that is the most condescending shit ever. every single site you use is going to take some time to learn and grow familiar with, that's just how your brain works, that makes sense. so now just totally cutting that step out is a little bit 'oh i know this is so so so so so hard for you so im going to make it unbearably easy'. do you get what im saying. also if it was just to help twitter users adjust you wouldn't make it a mandatory change for people who didn't use twitter to adapt to as well. you're literally just shifting your audience. you cant have your cake and eat it too.

[drizzileiscool]

hey guys did you know that the max number of tags a post can have is 30. totally not related to the tags I have explaining what would happen if a drizzile and rindo kanade fought to the death

I'm curious let's go

[dullahandyke]

discovered the keyboard shortcut for opening the command line Oh its over for you cunts. and you can run a bunch of programs just by typing their name into the command line. awesome

[innocuousghost]

Please I beg of you learn what headcanons are

[curioscurio]

This is one of my favorite examples of Ryoko Kui understanding different body type needs and functions on a completely higher level than anyone else in the field right now.

When you have more fat distribution around your center and stomach, the way your body folds on itself makes it incredibly difficult to sit against a wall with your head resting on your knees like that! In fact, for someone like me, it takes active effort and strength to hold that pose. My body can not rest in a pose like that because it is uncomfortable to my body type!

On the other hand, one of the first things I notice when i lose a lot of weight is that I can sit with my knees pulled way closer than usual to my chest without strain or pain. It's a pretty noticeable difference!

It's such a small detail, but so specific that I immediately had to get up and see for myself how I felt sitting in that position. I can do it and it's for sure possible, but it's mostly uncomfortable and has never been my go to pose after collapsing from running.

It's only one line, but it would go right over the heads of people who have only ever been thin or straight sized their whole life. Ryoko Kui nobody else is on your level doing it like you, and us plus size and fat fans see every single step you've taken to properly and respectfully represent our bodies!! Thank you!!

[centaurianthropology]

Murderbot as a ‘Cringe’ Litmus Test for the Audience (a.k.a., we are culturally the Corporation Rim)

One of the more interesting things I’ve seen in discussions of ‘Murderbot’ are how many people are not happy that the show made the Preservation team more explicitly hippies.  After all, per our current cultural zeitgeist, hippies are silly, over-earnest, over-feeling, over-EVERYTHING. Why is this team of scientists holding hands and humming?  Why are they taking breaks in the middle of a tense situation to reassure a colleague that they love him? Why do they stand around playing music and dancing during their downtime?  Why did the show make them “Cringe”?

And that got me thinking again about the current cultural antipathy toward sincerity and openness.  People who are seen as open and sincere beyond a fairly narrow scope of emotional expression are treated as deeply weird, off-putting, and most importantly for this conversation, as INCOMPETENT.  You can’t be goofy and competent.  You can’t believe in the power of love and friendship and holding hands and taking a dance break, and still be a good scientist.  You can’t have one of the unsexy sorts of mental health problems (panic disorder) and be a good leader.  In our current cultural moment, you have to be Cool.  You have to be unaffected by both the horrors of the world and the day-to-day joys. 

I think that a lot of people see themselves in ‘The Murderbot Diaries’, and a lot of them understandably love the very anticapitalist tone of the books.  And they wanted Preservation to be Cool Space Communists.  Hypercompetent at all times, serious, without flaw.  Because any personal flaws might be taken as flaws in their cultural and political leanings, right?  And we can’t have silliness or goofiness or fun in our Communist Utopia, or people won’t take us seriously.

But to me, the tension is so much better, so much more real and human and FUN. And it makes the audience question their own implicit biases as much as SecUnit is going to have to contemplate its implicit biases.  This team is comprised of highly talented scientists from a culture that values emotions and, yes, activities that we the audience have been culturally trained to think are Cringe.  They do have a humming consensus circle—so that anyone in the team can have veto power over a decision that has major ramifications not only for a research project, but for their own ethics.  They do like to play music and dance when they’ve got some free time, even if that music would be considered embarrassing or offputting to outsiders.  They do openly love one another and support one another, even in—no, especially in—challenging times.  It’s good to have that tension, both to tell the story and to give the characters and the AUDIENCE an emotional and thematic arc.

Let’s use Dr. Mensah as a the best example so far of this tension. Mensah is a good leader.  In every scene where she’s with the group, she’s the heart of it.  She’s always weighing the fears, the thoughts, the feelings, and the arguments of her friends to come to a decision.  She doesn’t feel like Gurathin’s right about not trusting SecUnit, but she’s also very aware that he knows more about the Corporation Rim than she does, and that his arguments, while rooted in his fears, are rational.  So she ends up deciding that they’ll leave the SecUnit behind for their mission. 

And it’s the wrong call. Going out to the dark site in the map without the SecUnit almost gets her killed. But her decision to climb the scree pile alone makes sense, because she doesn’t want to further endanger Bharadwaj, and if she doesn’t climb up there with her equipment, they won’t get important information about what’s going on with their survey data. And yes, while she’s climbing she has another panic attack. But she keeps climbing through it. Hell, she even takes a moment to encourage the teamwork between SecUnit and Gurathin, because that’s an important part of being their leader.  And, yes, they both roll their eyes because they still don’t like one another. But the important thing is that she’s created this sense of openness, of acceptance, of love.

Being a good leader doesn’t mean making the right call all the time.  It means learning from both right calls and wrong calls.  It means creating an environment where people can be wrong, and learn from their mistakes, and try again to get it right.  And it works!  Gurathin may roll his eyes, but he also has the space to apologize for getting it wrong. He has the space to fuck up and try again. And that is created by her encouragement, by her openness, by her caring even when it becomes embarrassing to a man raised in our culture the Corporation Rim, where open emotion is something to smirk at.

And when she’s alone, Mensah falls apart.  When no one can see her, she has panic attacks, because things are starting to go pear-shaped for these people she loves.  Because one of her dear friends nearly died, and she wasn’t there, and apparently that could happen at any time because their maps are faulty, and the only real rescue is an untrustworthy bond company that is a week away at best.  That’s a perfect recipe for a panic attack, but she hides them because she knows what she needs to be for her friends and colleagues.  She is the leader, and damned if she’s going to let something like her panic disorder stop her from doing that.

That’s not incompetent, that’s incredibly courageous.  Her bravery lies in being afraid and pushing through, not being flawless from the off.  The bravery and the competence and the things that eventually are going to win Murderbot over to loving these humans ARE their flaws and the fact that they don’t let those flaws stop them from trying to be the best people they can be, while also being true to a culture of being open and loving to the point that they can come across, to the jaded construct or audience member, as Cringe.

I think we’re going to see more and more of that as the show unfolds.  We’ve only just laid the groundwork, and established the initial impressions of all the characters.  They are being set up for arcs, and by electing to let the Preservation team be more out-there, more earnest, more Cringe, they’re setting the audience up for an arc too.

Anyway, loving the show, can’t wait for the DeltFall storyline to kick off tonight.  And I love this crew being highly-competent space hippies with realistic human flaws, who love and support one another.  In an unrelentingly Cool, Bleak, and Edgy television landscape, it really is nice to have kind characters be free to be their kooky selves without the show judging them for it.