Mathematickles

"Words + Math + Seasons = Mathematickles!" Today we read aloud this wonderful book written by Betsy Franco and Steven Salerno.  Written in the form of brief poems, these authors creatively use mathematical processes to describe the seasons. 

Some examples include:

 "feet - shoes + grass = barefoot" 
"sneeze x three = winter sniffles"

Inspired by two colleagues who had done this lessons using a similar book titled This Plus That by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, I introduced the students to an app called Haiku Deck.  This simple to use app allows students to create simple, yet stunning presentations using a small amount of text combined with images.  After users type in their text, Haiku Decks suggests many Creative Commons images which can be uploaded as backgrounds.  Users are also able to search for images on the web or take or upload their own images.  

Here is a sample of some of the presentations the students created!

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Symmetry in Our Environment

Last Friday while I was in Victoria at the Ministry of Education office working on Math Curriculum a funny thing happened.  Our team had just begun discussing the use and importance of technology in mathematics when serendipitously my laptop began making sounds to notify me of incoming emails.  When I checked my inbox, I was thrilled to see numerous emails from my students with symmetrical photos they had taken in the school environment.

I had left a question for Division 5 that read "Where do you see symmetry in your environment?"

The students captured these objects using the camera on the iPad and were able to draw the lines of Symmetry using Skitch.

Thank you to my wonderful TOC and students who email me their images!  It made my day...

:) Mrs. Barker