Technology Integration Rationale
Fractions are a vital part of our everyday lives.Whether you are baking, prepping for a party,determining how much pie you can eat withoutfeeling guilty, or dividing up the check for dinner,fractions always seem to pop up where you leastexpect them.
But sometimes, is it really hard to figure outhow to halve a recipe? Or maybe youstruggle to tip correctly because 1/5 of thebill sounds a bit pricey and who knows howto do that?
Rationale
ContinuedTechnology gives students a visual representation and can illustratehands on fraction knowledge such as measuring ingredients to makea cake. Having that visualization will help when they put their pencilsto the paper to figure out problems. Before you know it they’ll beasking if they can calculate the tip for you. Watching videos aboutwhere fractions can be applied will open up their eyes to the factthat everything is a fraction, not just the homework in their mathclasses.
It becomes important to know how we add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions because it relates to them and their interests.
Internet Content
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Internet Resources
• Khan Academy
– Non-profit organization created by an educator that gives students free access to information through short videos.
• TeacherTube
– An organization that hosts educational videos for teachers and children on a variety of subjects.
• Ted-Ed
– An organization owned by TED which teaches topics in a variety of subjects.
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Internet Uses
• IXL Learning
– This website makes it easy to choose any subject and have multiple examples to do out yourself.
– If you get a question wrong it walks you through the steps to get the right answer next time.
• Any Data Site!
– Any data website can become a fraction search.
– These fractions can easily be turned into word problems based on real life events.
Internet 2.0
• The class notebook can be used for the teacher to get feedback from the students as well as a place where she can upload notes, assignments, etc.
• The notebooks are private between teacher and student, but the teacher can use screenshots to post exemplary work or address questions students have with answers created by either another student or teacher.
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