Use these examples of projects created by students to inspire a digital approach to building math skills and meeting Virginia Standards of Learning in 4th-grade classrooms.
Creative use of technology can engage students, and help you integrate your iPads, PCs, or Chromebooks into the curriculum.
Students use math to show a solution and record narration to explain their thinking.
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Students demonstrate knowledge of arrays, find a real world example for needing multiplication, and explain.
VASOL.M.4.4.A The student will demonstrate fluency with multiplication facts through 12 x 12, and the corresponding division facts.
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Have students illustrate an addition or subtraction story and record an explaination of the problem. Collect the student projects into a class book and solve all the problems together.
VASOL.M.4.4.D The student will create and solve single-step and multistep practical problems involving addition, subtraction, and multiplication, and single-step practical problems involving division with whole numbers.
After reading Eric Carle’s The Grouchy Ladybug, students wrote their own stories showing elapsed time.
VASOL.M.4.9 The student will solve practical problems related to elapsed time in hours and minutes within a 12-hour period.
So much fun creating numeric and non-numeric patterns while using Wixie! ?? #wixie #TmesEagles pic.twitter.com/INj010fJJL
— Amy Minning (@Minning_Class) April 18, 2018
Here is an example of how Mrs. Lanzetta's class used Wixie to create a bar graph. They did a great job, and even wrote sentences to describe their data. #Wixie #dumfrieses #thirdgrade #pwcsproud pic.twitter.com/K42Lfm61Tu
— Dumfries ITC (@HollyLocke8) October 4, 2018
Wixie Fractions! #mathworkshop @FCPS_ITI @EagleViewES pic.twitter.com/ouvTPJxUqP
— Ms.Plaugher (@plaugherLP) April 11, 2018
Yesterday's centers. Using number lines on #wixie to model multiplication, #swadleyacademy, and working hard at the table pic.twitter.com/nga3FrEgHU
— Ms.Swadley (@Ms_Swadley) November 2, 2017
Using Wixie to create word problems. pic.twitter.com/ZJh9JS4sSG
— fabulousin4th (@OES4thgrade) October 5, 2017
Going from concrete to representational math with a #wixie area and perimeter activity @Providence_ES #VBProvidencePride pic.twitter.com/uTe1biJXKQ
— Phuong Nguyen (@nguyen_vbcps) May 2, 2018
5th graders are celebrating #DLDay by using #wixie to find geometric shapes on various landscapes. #DLDayPWCS @OfficialDLDay #tmeseagles #pwcsproud pic.twitter.com/EhnguP4csL
— Mrs. Stark (@TMESTechnology) February 22, 2018
Exploring probability while using Wixie! #TmesEagles #DLDay #PWCS pic.twitter.com/TenhPXPEg1
— Amy Minning (@Minning_Class) February 28, 2019
@StratfordLndgES 4th graders using #wixie to create instruction cards for their math games pic.twitter.com/SEhQLYIJPr
— Mary K Hanson (@MrsHanson_SLES) September 14, 2015