Hotter/Colder
Target skills: Number recognition, higher/lower, temperature
What kids can do: Hide an object in the room while one student isn't looking.
Then invite the student to start walking around the room in search of the
object. In the game you probably already know, when the student gets closer to
the object you give hints such as “warm,” “warmer,” “hot,” “hotter,” “extremely
hot,” “you're burning up!,” etc. Or, if the student is headed away from the
object you'd say “cold,” “colder,” “you're about to become an icicle.”
But for our math version, the idea is to give correlating temperatures to
“hotter” and “colder”: “32 degrees,” “40 degrees,” “150 degrees,” “0 degrees,”
etc. Periodically, stop the action and ask kids to do the math: “What's the
weather like now? How much cooler are you than before? How much hotter?”
Source:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/instructor/lemonademath.htm