WOW Game Title: Mingle, Mingle
Content Area: Math
TEKS focus: Counting and Exploring Numbers
Multiplication Facts
Fractions
Money and Addition Number Sense
Counting Money
Physical Education Unit: Cardiovascular, Traveling, Spatial awareness, Cooperation
Grade: 3
Resource: CATCH Activity Box 3-5
Equipment/Materials: Designated activity area, list of review questions for the teacher to call out, music
(optional).
Set Up: Students are scattered in a designated activity area.
Activity:
1. Call out “Mingle Mingle” (or start the music) and a locomotor movement (walk, jog, slide, hop).
Students begin traveling randomly throughout the activity area.
2. Signal or stop music and call out an equation such as 2x3 (see Variations), encourage students to
group quickly.
3. Students find the solution and then form a group of the size of the number called, join together,
and travel around the perimeter of the activity area continuing to use the designated locomotor
movement- skipping, galloping, sliding, jogging.
4. Instruct students without a group to raise their hands and go to the center to find others to join
with.
5. Once the previous question has been answered, a new locomotor is assigned. Students begin
moving around the activity area.
6. Repeat #’s 1-5 for continuous activity.
Variations:
 Create a more difficult list of questions.
 Shorten the time students have to answer questions.
 The teacher can call group numbers in a certain pattern and then have the students try to figure out
the pattern or what number the teacher is calling next. Ex. T. calls out 1x2, then 2x2, and finally
3x2, and then says “what number sentence comes next?
 Have students use money by giving this problem: $1.50 + $1.50 and students would need to form
groups of 3.
 Fractions can be discussed when dividing students into groups from the whole. Ex. if there were 20
kids in the class T can use fractions by using: 4/20ths and students form groups of 5.
 Activity can also be played with math flash cards.
 Assign the students to be dollars, quarters, or dimes and the teacher calls out a certain dollar
amount. Students then form groups in that dollar amount.
Review Questions:
Skill focus: What is the definition of cooperation?
Academic focus: Listen to the following numbers and give me the pattern. What would come
next? .75, $1.50, $ 2.25…