Due to an early out on Wednesdays, we have a short 25 min "study hall". Rather than letting kids catch up on their work, I gave them a list of mathematical vocabulary for Grade 8 TAK test from Texas. Although I do not work in TX, the list has a great list of vocabulary words. The students began constructing a deck with the word, an image, the definition and an audio component. The kids were having a great time creating their decks. The nice thing about this program aside from being free is that it allows students to create a standard deck with the word on front and the definition of the word. In addition, the students could create a deck with multiple choice, true or false, fill in the blank or a mathematical problem. One young lady was having so much fun creating a deck with audio.
The elementary immersion program has been looking for something like this so I showed it to the tech dept and he thinks it is going to do precisely what they want because the app can be used to create flash cards for any subject.
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Thursday, November 14, 2013
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Flash cards
I am having my students do word problems today and it became apparent that my students have issues with some of the vocabulary in terms of operations.
I introduced students to the KFCW chart which is a math version of KWL. They have to list what they know or information they are given. F is used for the part of What do you want to find? C is what do you need to consider? This is where they write down what operation do they need to use? Is there some formula they will need to use? How are you going to solve the problem? Finally is W which stands for Work. This is where the student shows their work and the solution. I showed it to the new Science teacher and she is making her students use the same form for science word problems. I like the consistency between the two classes.
As my students are working the problems they get to the words telling them what operation to apply and they don't really know those words. I have the SAS flash card app on their iPads, so I think beginning tomorrow, I will have students create flash cards for operation vocabulary so they can test themselves and learn the vocabulary. I like the SAS flash card app because they can make either text based cards with the word, a picture, a voice over and the answer or an actual math problem.
Yesterday, I managed to update the OS on all the ipads and downloaded a few different notebook type programs so I can use a different one in each period. I am hoping that this will eliminate the issue of one student messing with another student's work. I am hoping to begin the notebooks around mid October.
I introduced students to the KFCW chart which is a math version of KWL. They have to list what they know or information they are given. F is used for the part of What do you want to find? C is what do you need to consider? This is where they write down what operation do they need to use? Is there some formula they will need to use? How are you going to solve the problem? Finally is W which stands for Work. This is where the student shows their work and the solution. I showed it to the new Science teacher and she is making her students use the same form for science word problems. I like the consistency between the two classes.
As my students are working the problems they get to the words telling them what operation to apply and they don't really know those words. I have the SAS flash card app on their iPads, so I think beginning tomorrow, I will have students create flash cards for operation vocabulary so they can test themselves and learn the vocabulary. I like the SAS flash card app because they can make either text based cards with the word, a picture, a voice over and the answer or an actual math problem.
Yesterday, I managed to update the OS on all the ipads and downloaded a few different notebook type programs so I can use a different one in each period. I am hoping that this will eliminate the issue of one student messing with another student's work. I am hoping to begin the notebooks around mid October.
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