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  • Cactus Elementary School
  • Cactus, TX
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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I have chosen puzzles, mind-benders, and memory games to challenge and build problem-solving in our students. Our school has a Maker Room that all students attend twice a week. The activities here focus on STEAM-based learning and range from art projects, to engineering challenges, to coding on laptops. We were looking at another way to teach problem-solving, and puzzles seemed to be a logical addition. Our students enjoy quality, hands-on challenges that don't necessarily require fluency in English, and puzzles work for this opportunity. Long term, this will develop approaches that they will use to unravel math problems, assemble sounds to create words, and break apart unfamiliar words to create understanding and comprehension by use of cognates, prefixes, suffixes, and root words. In the short term, the kids are having fun. These carefully chosen activities will work for our students: * of ages 3 to 11 * who speak multiple languages, but are working to learn English * who need a challenge that seems like game-play, but is building grit * who need to build teamwork skills, and * who desire to work alone or develop independence

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I have chosen puzzles, mind-benders, and memory games to challenge and build problem-solving in our students. Our school has a Maker Room that all students attend twice a week. The activities here focus on STEAM-based learning and range from art projects, to engineering challenges, to coding on laptops. We were looking at another way to teach problem-solving, and puzzles seemed to be a logical addition. Our students enjoy quality, hands-on challenges that don't necessarily require fluency in English, and puzzles work for this opportunity. Long term, this will develop approaches that they will use to unravel math problems, assemble sounds to create words, and break apart unfamiliar words to create understanding and comprehension by use of cognates, prefixes, suffixes, and root words. In the short term, the kids are having fun. These carefully chosen activities will work for our students: * of ages 3 to 11 * who speak multiple languages, but are working to learn English * who need a challenge that seems like game-play, but is building grit * who need to build teamwork skills, and * who desire to work alone or develop independence

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