Using Wixie for Elementary Math Instruction
Lesson Plan
Using Wixie in Elementary Math
New approaches to math improve fluency through the use of creative technology tools.
Use these examples of projects created by students to inspire technology integration in your elementary math program.
Creative use of technology can engage students, and help you integrate your iPads, PCs, or Chromebooks into the curriculum.
"As a teacher who uses the CGI math practices for mathematics instruction, the opportunity for the students to articulate how they solved their math problem was so empowering for both the teachers and students. The use of pictures and the recordings supported the students in explaining their math knowledge and number sense and guided teachers towards making next step decisions by listening to their thought process!"
Noelani Morris
UCLA Lab School
Students use math to show a solution and record narration to explain their thinking.
Click the play button to listen to the student's explanation.
Math manipulatives are classroom standards because they provide a tangible way to help students see and grasp the nature of numbers and procedures. Wixie helps you take math manipulatives into the virtual realm.
Students demonstrate knowledge of arrays, find a real world example for needing multiplication, and explain.
Click the play button to see all the pages.
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.
Students use symmetry to develop their own surrealist work exploring good and bad.
Use this choice board to put students in charge of how they will practice counting.
New approaches to math improve fluency through the use of creative technology tools.
Combining and subdividing shapes can be a lot of fun @Tech4Learning #wixie my third grade students @SaratogaESFCPS shared! pic.twitter.com/K36sVr2G91
— Debbie Tannenbaum #develop (@TannenbaumTech) December 16, 2022
Math happening at Bailey’s Upper! @BaileysES_FCPS Students read and/or listen to the teacher read the problem shared in Wixie @Tech4Learning, solvedthe problem on paper, took a picture to share and then recorded themselves explaining their thinking. pic.twitter.com/pB8XUFkAkO
— Nicole C. (@Nicole_EdTech) November 4, 2022
1st uses #Wixie to show fractions then record their explanation and thinking #bcpslh @Tech4Learning @BCPSMATH pic.twitter.com/nXZ32TgxIN
— Jessica W (@CLETS_STAT) March 30, 2015Gr 2 using #wixie to create weather infographics @BCPS_ELA @Tech4Learning @GrangeES pic.twitter.com/dwy5a24vvP
— Laura Mossa (@lauramossa) December 22, 2015Day 31: Using Wixie to create combination problems for our classmates to solve. #TMESEagoes #mathisfun pic.twitter.com/Fp5XiAClkv
— Ms. Stormer (@stormers_class) October 10, 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
3s survey classmates, create pictographs on wixie, and ask and answer questions using the data @ChatsworthSch pic.twitter.com/N4LILjSVIk
— Lara Fruman (@lfruman1) December 22, 2015@StratfordLndgES 4th graders using #wixie to create instruction cards for their math games pic.twitter.com/SEhQLYIJPr
— Mary K Hanson (@MrsHanson_SLES) September 14, 2015Grade 4 using #Wixie to create Geometry Vocabulary Scrap Books @BCPSMATH pic.twitter.com/iAE1xR8RLg
— Sara Chrystal (@OakleighSTAT) April 1, 2015Using Wixie to teach others to find the volume of rectangular prisms! @DundalkES pic.twitter.com/wxn7TCxcjj
— Mika Chappell (@MsChappell_) May 16, 2018
@HumbleISD_ESE 5th Graders are using #Wixie to create Coordinate Grids. pic.twitter.com/a4mxdJJy7H
— Kasey Davis (@Kasey514) January 14, 2016Going 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
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