San Diego Unified Mathematics

We are thrilled to begin the the 2024-25 school year! Let's make this year our best one yet, filled with curiosity, collaboration, and a lot of fun. Here's to a fantastic school year ahead! Our UTK-12 Newsletter will highlight upcoming events and special moments in the classroom.

This year bring more joy and excitement to your classroom with math games that build procedural fluency and automaticity. Each month we will highlight a game that is fun and can be integrated through out the grade levels. Check out the Math Website for more games and for upcoming Game Events.

Game of the Month - High Rolling Sums

Players: 2 or more

Object: the player with the highest score wins

How to Play: Each player has 3 dice. The player rolls all 3 dice and sets aside the die with the largest number. The player rolls again the remaining two. Again, the player sets aside the die with the highest number and rolls the the reaming die one more time. Add up the numbers and that is your score for the round. Play proceeds to the next player until all have had their turn. The one with the highest score wins that round. The one with the highest score after 5 rounds wins the game.

Variation: To the play the game with multiplication, once the player has the three numbers, the player adds the first two and multiplies that number by the third.

• Inspire students' love for math by discovering ways to use games to enhance students' procedural fluency and strategic thinking! Become inspired to plan and host your own Family Game Night!

• Series dates: 9/26, 10/24, 11/19, 1/30, and 2/20

Submit interest form (due 8/30)

Bring lessons to life with the Desmos Math Classroom technology. If your currently teaching Integrated Math or Integrated Math 1 Advanced and would like to access to Desmos Math Algebra 1 to use as a resource with your students, please email Jessica at jwalsh3@sandi.net for access. Free access for the 24-25 school year.

Students should be excited about solving problems and feel capable and comfortable in the intellectual work of math. Click here for the full article.

We're excited to highlight classrooms from across the district! We invite you to share pictures, stories, and insights from your classroom experiences. If you have any games, projects, or lessons that other educators might find inspiring, please send them to jwalsh3@sandi.net.

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