| We have several games ready to go in our Puzzle Talk platform, but you might want to use a game for math discourse that isn't there just yet. Below you'll find suggestions for facilitating your discussion, locating games in the educator console, and strategies for selecting a game to meet the needs of your students. |
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Facilitating the Puzzle Talk
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Use our Problem Solving Process resources, engagement strategies, and facilitation tips to guide math discourse using the puzzle. Incorporate tools such as whiteboard and marker, math maths, game mats, or other manipulatives so students can show their thinking. Remember to pause the animation and use the annotation tools to help students notice the details of the puzzle and create connections. Try starting with a puzzle from Level 1 and increase the difficulty based on student understanding revealed during the conversation. Access a planning document and all our Puzzle Talk resources here. |
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Locating Games
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From Curriculum, select:
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Game Selection Strategies
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Student Alerts When students have an alert, a Puzzle Talk is a great way to provide support. Click on an alert then into the game link to open it up. |
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Last Played Game Locate the Last Played game column with the controller icon in your educator console. Sort it by clicking on the heading. This will group students who are playing the same game. This provides the opportunity for a Puzzle Talk in a small group. Click on the game you would like to use in the Last Played game column. |
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Align to a Standard Before opening an Objective through the Curriculum tab, use the dropdown at the top to organize Objectives by Standard. The standards will show on the right and the ST Math Objectives will be on the right. Follow the instructions above to open the aligned Objective and find a game. |