Math Activities
3.18.15
Number Bonds in our New Math Journals on Google Docs
In math, we have been working on Number Bonds (Eureka Math, Kindergarten, Module 4). Since the beginning of the year, I have had the students use a regular notebook as a "math journal" to record the Application Problem each day. However, by this time of the year, these notebooks are starting to fall apart, students are running out of pages, pages and covers are getting ripped off, etc. So I decided to have the students create an online math journal in Google Docs.
We have been using Sketchpad to draw on our Chromebooks, and of course it works very well to draw our math problems. Today we did the "Number Bond Flash" instead of the "Application Problem" for our journals. I put a number of red and yellow squares under the Elmo, and the students drew the corresponding number bond in Sketchpad.
We have been using Sketchpad to draw on our Chromebooks, and of course it works very well to draw our math problems. Today we did the "Number Bond Flash" instead of the "Application Problem" for our journals. I put a number of red and yellow squares under the Elmo, and the students drew the corresponding number bond in Sketchpad.
When the students finished their picture, I showed them how to pull down the "File" menu (in Sketchpad it's 3 bars), and click "Save as", then save it to their Google Drive.
Then we opened up Google Slides (the yellow icon), clicked the "+" sign to create a new document, and amed it "Math Book".
We clicked "Layout", then "Blank" to get rid of the text boxes that are automatically generated.
Next we clicked the picture icon, clicked over to the "Google Drive" tab, and found and clicked on the picture we had just made. And voila, our Math Journals were born! Now we can just add a new slide to our journal each day. We will never run out of pages, and hopefully the students won't figure out how to delete slides, either! :-)