Remote Teaching: Make Math Lessons Come Alive Through Google Slides

Remote teaching has become a new norm, and schools worldwide are utilizing online resources to make distance learning engaging for their students. Google apps are some of the most valuable tools for creating lesson plans used in remote teaching. Teachers can increase student engagement in the virtual classroom with Google apps, particularly Google Slides.

While creating fun lessons can sound easy, many teachers often get stuck when it comes to math lessons. Fortunately, Google Slides are versatile and simple to use for remote math lessons. Here are some useful tips that can help you make your math lessons fun and interactive, even through remote teaching.

Concise and Engaging Slides

Learning from home is definitely rather distracting, particularly for children. It is hard for them to concentrate when they are in their room, surrounded by toys. The biggest challenge when it comes to digital learning is keeping them interested and engaged.

Make sure that the Google Slides activities you are creating or purchasing are concise, and the dialogue is conversational. The instructions must be easy for your students to understand. Keep in mind that their parents might not be available to help them out during each lesson. Make the slides interactive to encourage involvement. Make sure that there are also sufficient pauses between concepts so students have time to solve problems.

Use Props and Materials

In addition to Google Slides activities, it’s important to include some hands-on work to keep your students engaged. Encourage them to grab some easily-available props around the house to help them solve their math problems. For instance, they could use pennies, cheerios or toys to add or subtract. This hands-on component to their learning will help reinforce important concepts and make math meaningful to them personally.

Gamify Math Problems

All math concepts can be taught in a way that gamifies remote lessons. Every single Common Core curriculum point can be covered in a fun, engaging way. Give your activity a purpose, make it interactive with movable images, use fun clip art and vibrant colors. These are all great ways to gamify math lessons, making remote learning fun for your students.

You can even incorporate links to math apps to keep your students engaged and extend their learning. There are math apps that even allow students to battle one another in completing math problems. Some students really thrive off of these opportunities and experiences.

Keep the Lesson Interactive

Keep your students interested by making your Google Slides lessons interactive, with movable pieces and text boxes. This is the “hands-on” of the digital world. Rather than just reading notes on a screen, give your kids opportunities to interact with the material. Set up activities so students can drag objects to complete problems, or type their answers in text boxes. Trust me, they are so much more invested in the activity when they can physically interact with it, even in a digital sense.

You could incorporate movable dice images , for example, to make the slides fun. These digital resources can easily be embedded in any of your Google Slides activities.

Offer Support and Encouragement

Offering your support to the students who need it and encouraging them to participate can make digital learning seem less daunting for young students. It is something teachers already do in traditional classrooms, which is just as important in our virtual classrooms. Appreciate their efforts to increase their motivation and make yourself available during and after the lessons to help them out.

Remote learning and math combined can seem overwhelming to young students. It is essential to make their transition to distance learning easier by creating fun math lessons through amazing platforms like Google Slides. Take your time to learn more about it and experiment a little. Use engaging online tools and resources to make numbers and sums lively and enjoyable for your students.

I hope this helps you in your remote teaching adventure!

Thanks so much for popping by, and I hope to see you again soon!

Jess @ Savvy Apple
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