Bondurant-Farrar Community Schools

Artifact
Artifact Title: Bump It Game Directions and Game Board
Portfolio Author: Christina Cornia
Date: October 27, 2015
Iowa Teaching Standard 2_ Demonstrates competence in content knowledge appropriate
to the teaching position.
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Understands and uses key concepts, underlying themes, relationships,

and different perspectives related to the content area.
Uses knowledge of student development to make learning experiences in the content
area meaningful and accessible for every student.
Relates ideas and information within and across content areas.
Understands and uses instructional strategies that are appropriate to the content
area.

I chose this artifact to show:

X strength and competency in this standard
Evidence to support attainment of this standard:
Description of artifact and how the artifact meets the standard:
This artifact is just one of many games I implement on a daily basis in my math instruction. This game is great for
students of varying ability levels in my classroom. It requires students to practice their basic multiplication facts.
The students who are struggling with their facts get the needed practice. The students who have mastery with their
basic facts can use higher order thinking skills with strategy. While they are deciding where to place their chips on
the board the students are still practicing facts. Additionally, when students roll their dice they will discover there
is often more than one way to arrive at a similar product.

Reflection on artifact:
I have found that my students are very motivated by this math game. More recently I have taught the students
Quotient Bump It. The students ask to play these games frequently. I have integrated them into my morning
workshop groups. I believe that as great as the game is, it could be made better. When the students play with two
dice the largest fact they can do is 6 x6. I would like to have the students roll two dice that are ones place value the
students could practice larger facts. Often times the hardest facts for students are multiples of seven and eight. This
change in materials would allow for this practice with higher facts.