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发帖数: 19398 | 1 McCormick Elementary Students Learn Go (And Math)
Students at McCormick Elementary, in Chicago, IL, had the opportunity recent
ly to learn to play go from Xinming Simon Guo 2d, a licensed math teacher an
d founder of the GoAndMath Academy. “Students were playing a simple game du
ring the class, blissfully unaware that they were also working on math skill
s as they put every stone on the board and counted the result at the end of
the game,” Guo told the E-Journal.
At McCormick, the go class is part of the Chinese Artists-In-Residency Progr
am, co-sponsored by Confucius Institute in Chicago (CIC) and GoAndMath Acade
my. The Chinese language teachers at McCormick — where 99.5% of the student
s are hispanic and 50% are English Language Learners – Ms. Yeh and Ms. Huan
g, heard about the go program during the professional workshop organized by
CIC last year. “Go is an ideal tool to achieve the goal of our Chinese curr
iculum–to enhance students’ understanding of Chinese culture, and reinforc
e their learning of language skills,” says Guo. “During the entire 2013-20
14 school year, the go program offered more than 130 learning sections to mo
re than 4500 students in Chicago public schools,” said Jane Lu, the direct
or of CIC and coordinator of CPS Chinese World Language Program.
“Go is not just a simple game,” says Guo. “Research by GoAndMath Academy
reveals that there exists a hidden natural connection between math and go. S
tudents can experience math concepts without even noticing them. More specif
ically, go helps students develop number sense, and three domains in Common
Core standards: Counting and Cardinality; Operations and Algebraic Thinking;
and Number and Operations in Base Ten. GoAndMath Academy designed the educa
tional go program, which is appropriate for Pre-K through eighth grade, is a
ligned with the common core standards, and can be played with peers in schoo
l or around the world. This fantastic game combines math, science, art, and
competition, as well as ancient oriental philosophy and culture. Go requires
the highest level of critical thinking. It cultivates the abilities of obse
rving, reflecting, imagining, reasoning, innovating, and decision-making,”
says Guo. |
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