Adding additional Chromebooks to our classroom will help towards our goal of giving each student their own assigned device to work on during our math time. We currently have to borrow Chromebooks from a classroom at the other end of the school, each day at lunch time, and have them returned at the end of the day. Having to retrieve and return the borrowed Chromebooks takes up part of our math time.
We love to do our online math! We use a program called Think Central. Since each student has their own log in, they are able to work at their own pace. Often students are motivated to get lessons done because they want to be the furthest along in the program.
The thing we like most about doing math online, is that if we get stuck during homework practice, there are tools on the screen that we can use to help us, like "view an example", "view the textbook" where the information needed is found, and can try to work out the problem using a guided "step-by-step" tool. Once we understand how to do the math, we get to try another problem just like it.
Students get to check in with the teacher, especially if they are having trouble getting past a lesson, and are good about helping each other out too.
Making more Chromebooks readily available in our classroom will definitely help us get the math practice we need!
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Adding additional Chromebooks to our classroom will help towards our goal of giving each student their own assigned device to work on during our math time. We currently have to borrow Chromebooks from a classroom at the other end of the school, each day at lunch time, and have them returned at the end of the day. Having to retrieve and return the borrowed Chromebooks takes up part of our math time.
We love to do our online math! We use a program called Think Central. Since each student has their own log in, they are able to work at their own pace. Often students are motivated to get lessons done because they want to be the furthest along in the program.
The thing we like most about doing math online, is that if we get stuck during homework practice, there are tools on the screen that we can use to help us, like "view an example", "view the textbook" where the information needed is found, and can try to work out the problem using a guided "step-by-step" tool. Once we understand how to do the math, we get to try another problem just like it.
Students get to check in with the teacher, especially if they are having trouble getting past a lesson, and are good about helping each other out too.
Making more Chromebooks readily available in our classroom will definitely help us get the math practice we need!
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