Splat Multiplication

My students love to use Splat 100s board for marking multiples. 

My teaching partner used Splat to play a multiplication game.  Students were partnered up.  Each pair needs one computer with Splat.  Each child chooses a color to represent him/her on the board.  Each pair needs a pair of 10 sided dice.  Students roll the dice and multiply the two numbers.  The product is marked on the board in the appropriate color.  Students have to decide if whoever marks a color first gets to keep the color if it can be "bumped" into another color if another child rolls that product.  The first child who gets 3 in a row wins.  (or 5 in a row)   See what discoveries can be made about numbers after children have played the game.  (Thanks Amy for the great idea!)

Read Write Think

We've used ReadWriteThink to practice vocabulary words.  We used a one box cartoon to illustrate a word, the speaking bubble should have context clues or another way to define the word.  The caption contained the word with a dictionary type definition.  We also used ReadWriteThink's venn diagrams to compare the multiples of 2s, 3s, and 5s. 

Frustrated

I'm frustrated with myself as I intended to use this blog as a journal of our adventures with technology in the classroom.  I've always used technology, but I've never had so much available to me in my room before this year.  I've fallen behind on documenting what we are doing and any problems.  I'm going to try to do better.