Story Problems

In our continuing study of multiplication and division, the students needed to write and illustrate a multiplication and division story problem. They did this individually using an app called Doodlebuddy. They then exchanged their iPads and used the app Doceri to solve the problem. Below the pictures are two samples of the students' work. They did a great job on this and worked really hard both on the math problem and as they learned these two new apps. Visit the student work section of our classroom website to see all the videos.

Simple Machines

Today we continued our work with simple machines. Students were divided into teams and sent to explore Kozy. Their task was to find as many different examples of simple machines as they could and document each using the iPad's camera. The children did a great job and found many unique examples.

Below are some of the examples that the children found. See if you would have thought of them.

Valentine's Day Inferencing

One of the skills that third graders work on is inferencing. Inferencing involves looking at a piece of text or a picture, looking for clues, and then using those clues to figure out what a character is thinking or feeling. To work on this skill today, students used the iPads two different apps make inferences about a Valentine's Day picture. Click on the slideshow below to see full size pictures.

Math and iPads

This past week's math lessons have focused on understanding place value and using that understanding to add and subtract numbers. Today, as a review of this week's lessons, the children used iPads to explain how to solve a math problem.

Below is a sample from Aubree, Thomas, and Antonio
 

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Dylan, Bri, Hunter
Alexandra, Cheyenee, Grace
Zachary, Gabriel, Michael
Austin, Sebastian, Esteban