Summer Math Learning
Summer math learning can provide a fun and engaging way to focus on a wider range of math related activities than the common practice sheets. This can be a combination of visual spatial activities, games, and calculations, that has a more entertaining character.
Visual spatial activities are beneficial for math learning and are underrepresented in most math programs. Summer math learning can include activities meant to develop how students perceive and analyze visual information.
Developing visual perception can be done with ‘Find the Difference’ activities. There are multiple Find the Difference pictures in increasing difficulties on the internet. When students have developed focused watching and comparing, they can progress by copying a pattern on a pegboard. This activity includes partitioning and synthesizing the visual information and prepares students to analyze pictorial patterns and subsequently add items that fit the pattern. After completing visual patterns students can also work on completing numerical patterns, for example skip count patterns such as on the SEN teacher website (https://www.senteacher.org printables math), laying the groundwork for more integrate activities, connecting expanding visual patterns with numerical series. You find patterns with shapes and sizes at the area patterns from https://commoncoresheets.com and a large selection at the website of Fawn Nguyen https://visualpatterns.org
Mazes include planning and practice visual spatial working memory. Multiple websites have maze generators and some include practice questions that help finding the path. Mystery pictures are another example to combine a visual activity with calculations: https://coloringsquared.com
Since this is meant to be a fun summer activity you can include coloring of geometrical shapes that also draw attention to recurring patterns, available for example from https://mondaymandala/m/
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