Games for Mathematical Understanding

YPP will demonstrate activities from our Flagway Curriculum, designed to help students develop number sense. These activities will be active, highly engaging, and FUN. They can be used with students from Kindergarten to grade 8 to lay a foundation for important mathematical concepts by engaging them in physical activities, and with structures that model these same concepts. Participants will play interactive games facilitated by YPP high school math literacy workers and will work to solve the problem of how a particular mathematical function categorizes the natural numbers greater than 1 into three mutually exclusive groups. Participants will use their intuition, their own understanding of numbers and information that is given to them to develop and share hypotheses about the categorization of the numbers.