Unstructured Play/Exploration on the Zillio Mountain

Learning objective:

1) Get acquainted with Zillio.

2) Provide opportunity to count and compare.

3) Develop a framework for the algebraic concept of rates of change – how more small steps are required to reach the same height as one large step.

Grade Levels: Pre-K, K, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade

Number of Participants: 1 - 4

Activity Sequence Number: A.1

Skills:

Develops: Getting Acquainted, Counting, Rates of Change

Develops & Uses: Number Sense

NCTM Standards:

Pre-K - 2

1.1.1 Count and recognize "how many" in sets of objects.

2.4.0 Analyze change in various contexts.

Grades 3 - 5

1.1.2 Recognize equivalent representations for the same number and generate them by composing and decomposing numbers.

1.2.0 Understand meanings of operations and how they relate to each other.

1.2.1 Understand various meanings of multiplication and division.

2.4.0 Analyze change in various contexts.

Grades 6 - 9

2.4.0 Analyze change in various contexts.

Tips & Tricks:

*Some teachers build interest and anticipation by putting a picture of the Mountain up on the wall in advance of receiving the Mountain. They allow children to speculate about what it is and how it will be used.

* When you first receive the Mountains in younger grades, allow children plenty of time to play with it (without the tokens) before you use it in lessons.

*Make small items (counters, blocks, beads, buttons, etc) available for small children to use with the Mountains.

Response to Intervention Tier:

1,2,3