This week was a short one due to the holiday on Monday (I also missed a day for eye surgery). I was still able to pull off some interesting lessons using PowerPoint. I started the week covering equal groups of items to work our way up to simple multiplication. Again I relied on the basics. Images of balls sticks and other familiar items separated into multiple equal groups. The students participated and only a few did not make the connection between “five groups of 2” and “5 X 2.”
Taking a cue from a previous comment from Robin I decided to dust off the old “Who Want to be a Millionaire?” PowerPoint template and fill it with math problems. The question was presented as number of groups and number of items in each group. Four answers were provided as with the real game show. Few students had ever seen the actual TV version of the show but all enjoyed our classroom version. The whole class worked as a team to reach the Million Dollar mark. They did it (I cut them some slack on one question since they were doing so well).
Science and Social Studies also got a taste of the millions… I enter the vocabulary words for each subject and had the students look up the words in their books as we played the game. Filling out the template was a bit time consuming (I have such a hard time coming up with wrong answers), but overall it was well worth it.
Side note: I have to create a folder system to save and retrieve all the presentations I made this year.
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