Evaluating Math Games from App Store, then Division BINGO!

Working in partners, the students had to find 3 games, play them and give them either a thumbs up or down and explain why. On Monday, the class will share the games. Notes were kept in their math notebooks.

Explaining the game to each other and deciding if it has value.

Serious consideration about math games

                                            

Typing skills, analysis, and balancing their notebooks--they are great learners!!

 The goal is to find math games that support 4th grade math concepts for practice. It is hard to find good games that have some depth of content and fun to play. They kids noticed right off that creating games that are for lower grades is easier and there were more of these. Finding games for the intermediate group is harder because the levels are wider and the students have pretty high expectations of engagement.                                                              
          Last year when I did this with the class, the App Store had only a few games that the class really liked so it was good to see new games had been uploaded, and some that were pretty fresh and fun fueled with good content coverage.
Because the kids get to do math with Mr. Khan of Khan Academy and Ten Marks, they do know what feels right.

Each person had a chance to play the game and the talk was lively and completely focused!! 

                                             

Lots of choices; refining the search

  THE CONCENTRATION of BINGO-- Whether it is multiplication or division-- they love it. There are four students that help each round. Two call the letter and equation and two students scribe the equations so that when someone yells, 'BINGO!", the numbers can be checked.  It is fun and the class transitions so smoothly from Chromebooks to interactive game. It is also a good self assessment tool because they note how well they are keeping up with the basic facts. Doing games like this reinforces that they need to have recall of these facts-- just part of the math toolbox.

We had time for a half hour of Chromebooks and BINGO!!!

The thought bubbles above their heads you can actually see.:)

GO SEAHAWKS!!!!

Calling, Scribing, Checking, Concentrating

Math game at its simplest- and very effective -low technology still works great!