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Originally Posted by Ivorytickler
I'm going to have to steal that. My kid struggle with the idea that things don't have to be in a particular order.
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Another thing you can use for things that don't have to be in a particular order is making groups and letting them move like this:
Group 1 standing by the north wall goes to meet group 2 over by the west wall then groups 1 and 2 go and meet group 3 at the east wall, then groups 1, 2 and 3 meet group 4 in the middle of the room.
Does it matter that group 1 moved to meet group 2 or could group 2 have gone to the north wall and then the two groups moved to the east wall? As long as all 4 groups end up meeting in the middle, the order they move in does not matter.
You can use 4 kids rather than 4 groups to make it a bit easier to do in the classroom.
Or have them think about a meal. Does it matter if they eat the green beans or the potatoes first? Does it matter if they eat a little of each thing on the plate and rotate each or if they eat the whole veggie first and then the meat and then the potatoes?
You really can act out the commutative, associative, distributive laws, etc.
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