Due to some strange things happening at the last school board meeting, the high school is changing from a 8 period day to a shorter 6 period day and there was some training for both teachers and students. This means that for two days, I was missing half my students and since we are changing schedules, I needed something to have students do during class as warm-ups. So Wednesday, I opened the game and copied the first screen under + and - up on the board for the warm-up. It was amazing how involved my students were with this warm-up. After about 10 min, my first student found the answer and I had them write it up on the board.
Yesterday, I chose the first screen under multiplication and division and put that on the board. Again, they were so involved that I told them to think about it over night and we'd try again on Friday (today). I have study hall every Tuesday and Thursday evenings. I had several students come in and work on it. The reason I told them to think about it, was simply that I had not figured it out. I finally came up with the solution at the end of the day. Today I gave them about 5 min and then placed a hint where I rearranged the dice into the proper order. After another 5 min, I showed them the solution.
This was a really great activity and I may do it again.
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Friday, September 12, 2014
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
5 dice order of operation game.
This is a really nice app for students to practice their order of operations. Students have the choice of 5games.
1. Addition and Subtraction
2. Multiplication and Division
3. Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
4. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division with parenthesis.
5 Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division with parenthesis and exponents.
In this app, you select which game you would like to play. Once its open you have a target number to aim for. You can combine dice to make multi-digit numbers with as few or as many operation signs. The first time I tried this app, I selected addition and subtraction. I had 5 dice with these numbers 4,4,4,2,1 and the plus or minus signs and a target of 52. It took me a while to figure out I could combine dice to make numbers so I ended up with 44 + 12 - 4 to get 52.
I see this as a great app to use for grades 4 and up. In the high school, it can be used to help scaffold student who are weak in using the order of operations.
You can find the app here and it is free.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/5-dice-order-operations-game/id572774867?mt=8
1. Addition and Subtraction
2. Multiplication and Division
3. Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
4. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division with parenthesis.
5 Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division with parenthesis and exponents.
In this app, you select which game you would like to play. Once its open you have a target number to aim for. You can combine dice to make multi-digit numbers with as few or as many operation signs. The first time I tried this app, I selected addition and subtraction. I had 5 dice with these numbers 4,4,4,2,1 and the plus or minus signs and a target of 52. It took me a while to figure out I could combine dice to make numbers so I ended up with 44 + 12 - 4 to get 52.
I see this as a great app to use for grades 4 and up. In the high school, it can be used to help scaffold student who are weak in using the order of operations.
You can find the app here and it is free.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/5-dice-order-operations-game/id572774867?mt=8
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