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In November 2022, Math & Movement Founder and CEO Suzy Koontz led a 40-minute math intervention for 10 fourth grade students in an after-school program. These students attended Washington Yu Ying Public Charter School. The school offers dual English and Chinese language cultural immersion, in which students receive equal instruction in Chinese and English in all subjects.
Students completed both a pre-test and a post-test with 30 multiplication by 6s problems.
Before starting the intervention, the students completed the pre-test so that Suzy could gauge their fluency with multiplication by 6s. Also, a verbal pre-test was completed by having the students collectively skip count by 6s. Students counted from 1 to 60, whispering the numbers that are not multiples of 6, and shouting the multiples of 6.
Suzy began the intervention by leading students in active math movements as a warm-up. Students participated in the “Soccer for 6s” movement, which goes as follows:
Next, the students lined up the Skip Counting by 6s floor mat. Each student jumped on the mat while their peers stood on the sidelines and chanted the multiples of 6 in sync with their jumping.
After each student had a turn on the mat, Suzy had the students turn away from the mat and skip count by 6s aloud without looking at the mat.
Understanding that the students had made progress but still required some additional progress, Suzy asked the students if anyone wanted to have a second turn jumping on the mat. Their hands shot up!
The group continued taking turns jumping on the mat and collectively skip counting by 6s aloud. Periodically, Suzy gauged their improvement by asking the students to face away from the mat and skip count aloud.
Finally, Suzy demonstrated how to solve multiplication by 6s problems by using the mat and counting their jumps. Students received a page of multiplication by 6s problems and were encouraged to use the mat to find their answers. Students worked independently, jumping on the mat to count the groups of 6s and documenting their answers on their worksheets.
Their post-test scores showed just how much the Math & Movement intervention helped them learn!
"One student wanted to share his math experience with me. He said, 'I have had such a hard time with times.' He is not alone," Suzy Koontz shared. "At the end of the program, this student stated with confidence, 'Now I know how to do times.' The evidence proved how he was feeling - there was a five-fold increase between this student's pre-test score and post-test score!"
"I asked the students what I believe is the most important question: 'Did you personally improve?' It is imperative that students recognize that their own hard work makes a difference in their learning. When they put effort into practicing and learning, results happen. They improve their skills. The students answered that they had grown in skip counting!"
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