There are no Maths games on the market that teach students about Fractions in a fun and engaging way. Can you create a game?
The students worked for 3 periods and here they are playing the games that they created with the other Year 6 class.
Prior to the creation of the game, the students had spent some time learning all about fractions - equivalent, simplifying, improper fractions, adding and subtracting fractions. They were ready to go...
We reviewed the question after the games were played...the reactions were very interesting.
Today we created bridges out of straws and masking tape. The students worked either individually or in pairs to write questions, plan and create a bridge that would hold a suitable load.
We started the tests and will complete them tomorrow.
My students were given a real life problem to solve.
There are no suitable board games for Year Six to play that help them with their understanding of Fractions, Decimals and Percentages. You will need to create one.
The students set to work on planning their game and needed to run it by me to see if I thought it was a suitable idea.
Here are the finished examples of the bridges that were constructed by the students. They are now very excited about the actual bridge building day this week.
The students have been discussing the types of bridges they will build. The language and reasoning has been a pleasure to be eaves dropping on...
Students viewed the PEO website to investigate how a bill becomes a law. After this investigation, the students prepared a short talk to present to a number of friends about their findings. The talk was videoed and then uploaded to you tube and sent to me so that I could assess the students' understanding. Here are the students in action.
Now I need to view the videos to learn about making laws in Australian Government.