I often have students creating a language arts project on iPads, but I love when I find ways to use iPads with math! You might recall my 100th day iPad activity, and my holiday QR codes around the room!
Over the past few weeks, I've used iPads for story problems and QR codes for tally marks as a math center. Students have a designated task each day, which rotates to each table throughout the week. I need 4-6 iPads per day, so I sometimes have to borrow one from next door (I currently have 5).
For story problems, we used the app "Math Word Problems". It's great because it gives students a story (click the speaker icon to have it read), and several ways to show the answer. Students create a drawing to solve, fill in a ten frame (click a box twice and it puts an X on it), a number line, and a number sentence area. After 10 correct problems, it offers a 60 second mini-game. I am so happy I learned about this app from Sue Holt at an iPad conference I attended last year. Isn't it great when you go to a PD and go home with something to implement right away! Hooray!
TIP: If you have some styluses to offer, they help kids with drawing and writing on the screen.
I love the turtles this child drew on a log! :)
Counting tally marks is always good practice, so I found this jungle themed QR code game to go with our animal unit that week. Anytime kids get to scan codes, they are very engaged (math and sight word QR code activities have been a hit!)
Students scanned the code using KUTAR, and counted the tallies when they popped up on the screen. The recording sheet also had ten frames, so it gave students 3 ways to show a number (digit, tallies, ten frame). I numbered the cards and the boxes on the recording sheet so we could easily tell which cards had already been recorded.
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| Math Word Problems |
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| Kutar QR |
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