Predicting Colors

Using our skills with proportions and now with predicting probabilities, students are trying to predict how many of each color M&M is found in this big bag...

with only using the information from these fun-sized bags.

Who will be the closest?
What would make this experiment more accurate?

It's All in Proportion

Students used their skills of solving proportions today to solve for various real life questions.

Students were measuring shadows.

Researching famous landmark dimensions.

Finding measurements of various areas in the school.

Determining how much water they would drink in proportion to a dairy cow.

Calculating how long it would take them to run a marathon.

Then to show what they learned, students created a ScreenChomp explanation of how they solved their question.

Stay tuned for links of student examples!

Using ScreenChomp to Communicate How to Subtract Integers

How does one subtract positive and negative numbers?
It's harder to see and do than addition, that's for sure!
After learning several methods
(ask your student which method they prefer...positive and negative notation, driving along the number line, or adding the opposite),
Students focused on explaining the process to others using an iPad App...ScreenChomp.

Awareness Graphs on the iPads

Students looked at the True Color personality data that they collected in science class as they organized graphs for various groups at RVMS...4th hour math, the football team, the RVMS News group, band, or the entire 8th grade class just to name a few.  

Data was entered into the Numbers spreadsheet on the iPads and graphs were created to show the make-up of these various groups.  It was exciting to see how each group differed than the others and the information that could be drawn from the charts.  

It was also exciting to see the learning curve on the iPads!  As each class got familiar with the spreadsheet app, students were making discoveries about how to enhance their final presentation with the various spreadsheet tools.