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Mathy hy Move

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Connecting Movement and Math for Early Learners and Their Families through a Racial Equity Lens

Family MathWays Team

• Practice in empathy
• “Many children become bored, and children who are

bored and unengaged in school may look for something else to do. I see the same result when grown-ups are bored and or unengaged in trainings….standing, tapping, knitting, talking, texting, and scrolling through screens.”

• Debra Ren-Etta Sullivan, Cultivating the Genius of Black Children

Warm U rm Up

Age genda

• Warm-up
• Why Movement and Math?
• Movement and Bias in the Classroom
• Movement Activity Examples
• Group Activity Brainstorm and Share

Out

• Questions and Closing

Zeno Mission

Why Combine Math and Movement?

• It’s engaging!
• Multiple learning

styles

• Fun factor
• Math attitude
• Improves learning
• Kids don’t realize they

are learning

• Movement is math!
• Spatial relationships

Bia ias in in Movement ent

• Black preschoolers are 3.6 times more

likely to receive one or more suspensions relative to White

• preschoolers. This is particularly

concerning as Black children make up

• nly 19% of preschool enrollment, but

comprise 47% of preschoolers suspended one or more times. – Yale University Child Study Center, 2016

• “But by the 3rd grade, much of Black

Children’s natural exuberance has been replaced by frustration and resignation… Children develop this attitude when the teacher repeatedly stops them from talking and moving, limits what they can touch, examine, and requires them to be still and listen to the teacher talk.”

• Debra Ren-Etta Sullivan,

Cultivating the Genius of Black Children

How Do You Encourage Movement in the Classroom?

• “When teachers have a stronger

sense of what is needed by the learner in the room, they will be better equipped to engage those learners.”

• Debra Ren-Etta Sullivan,

Cultivating the Genius of Black Children

Options t

• ns to

Encourage Movement

• Movement of the day
• Shape Yoga
• Song/wiggle of the day
• Exercise of the day
• When children are wiggly, take

time to address and shake it out

• Encourage all staff members to

incorporate movement into their routines.

Body M y Math th

• Body Math
• Fingers! Game
• Action Patterns
• Body Measurement
• Shape Yoga
• Jump Rope

So Songs a s and d Movem emen ent

• Favorite Math Song?
• One Little Elephant
• 5 Little Monkeys
• Sally the Camel
• Appey Tappey Chappey Choo
• We’re Going on a Bear Hunt

Group

• up

Brains nstorm

• rm

Math concept (on your table) Work as a group Create your own game/activity Keep it fun & include movement Materials on your tables

Acti tivi vity y Outline

Game name: Math concept(s): # of players: Age(s): Materials needed: How to play: Math talk: Variations:

Share re Out Out

• Grou
• up, please

se sha share with h us us-

• Game name:
• Math concept(s):
• # of players:
• Ages:
• Materials needed:
• How to play:
• Math Talk:
• Variations:

Questi estions? s?

Hmm…?

Reso sources es

• Link to Cultivating the Genius of Black Children by Debra

Sullivan

• https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cultivating_the_Genius_of_Black_C

hildren/RDJsCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover

• Link to Preschool Implicit Bias
• https://medicine.yale.edu/childstudy/zigler/publications/Preschool%20Impli

cit%20Bias%20Policy%20Brief_final_9_26_276766_5379_v1.pdf

• Link to Why are so many preschoolers getting suspended

article

• https://center.uoregon.edu/StartingStrong/uploads/STARTINGSTRONG20

16/HANDOUTS/KEY_48539/InvestigatingWhySoManyBlackPreschoolers GetSuspendedandExpelledTheAtlantic.pdf

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