Fishing for Mental Math Strategies
Learn some strategies for fishing Native fish and for solving addition problems
Overview
Learn about sea creatures found in the waters of Hawai‘i and the different strategies we use to catch them. Explore some strategies for learning new things and for solving mental math problems.
Materials
Goals
Objectives
Common Core State Standards
Next Generation Science Standards
Materials
Vocabulary Lesson
Computer or other device with internet + speakers
Math Concepts Lesson
- Computer or other device with internet + speakers
Exploration Activity
- Computer or other device with internet + speakers
- Optional: E Lawai’a Flashcards
Discovery Lesson
- Computer or other device with internet + speakers
Goals
- Think about how we use strategies in our daily lives and in math; and
- Learn about fishing in Hawaiian culture.
- Learn some strategies for adding one and two-digit numbers.
- Learn about how to use flashcards as a strategy to learn and memorize new information.
- Use the E Lawaiʻa flashcards to learn about some sea life in Hawaiʻi’s waters.
- Use mental math strategies to answer one- and two-digit addition problems.
Objectives
- Learn the Hawaiian words for fish and fisherman;
- Define strategy and mental math; and
- See examples of strategies and how to use strategies in fishing and in math.
- See examples of using the Making Tens, Doubles, and Place Value mental math strategies.
- Learn about how to create and organize flashcards from notecards;
- Learn how to use flashcards used the spaced repetition and pomodoro strategies;
- Learn to internalize information by writing definitions in your own words;
- Learn and memorize some information about the ʻamaʻama, moi, ʻopihi, heʻe, ʻula pāpapa, weke ʻā, mahimahi, and ʻahi.
- Use mental math strategies to answer one- and two-digit addition problems.
Common Core State Standards
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.1
Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.OA.B.2
Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies. By end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers.
Next Generation Science Standards
2-LS4-1
Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life indifferent habitats
LS4.D; 2-LS4-1
Biodiversity and Humans. There are many different kinds of living things in any area, and they exist in different places on land and in water.
