General Learner Outcome:
Recognize and apply whole numbers from 0-100.
Specific Learner Outcome:
Count by 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's up to 100.
Most Relevant ICT Learner Outcomes:
F.6-Students will demonstrate a basic understanding of the operating skills required in a variety of technologies.
F.1 - Students will demonstrate an understanding of the nature of technology.
F.2 - Students will understand the role of technology as it applies to self, work and society.
P.2 - Students will organize and manipulate data.
Description of Activity:
One of the links talks about the benefit of using a number grid to teach children to count by 2s, 5s and 10s. My other useful link talks about using excel spreadsheets to teach children to organize and interpret data. My activity for children would be to allow them to create their own number grid on an excel spreadsheet. This activity gives them practice counting to 100 as they would have to type in all the numbers themselves. Once they have completed their spreadsheet, it could be printed out and laminated, so that it could be used for further practice in counting by 2's, 5's and 10's.
Benefits of using technology:
The use of excel gives students the opportunity to use the font, color and size of text they like best. In this way, the students are more likely to appreciate their number grid when they get it. It will look how they want it to look, and they may be more excited about using it for practice. I think using the computer also gives confidence to children who may be creative, yet aren’t exceptional at drawing or painting.
Another benefit of using excel is that students are able to make mistakes and easily fix them. If children are less afraid of failure, they are more likely to try and to learn. Through the use of excel, even if mistakes are made, they can be corrected before the final copy has been printed. This way, even the children who made mistakes initially end up with a “perfect” number grid.
References:
Moskel, M. (n.d.). Teaching Skip Counting By 2’s. Retrieved September 24, 2008, from http://www.ehow.com/video_4403079_teaching-skip-counting-2s.html
Lewis, P. (2001). Use Spreadsheets to Teach Mathematics and Meet Standards. Retrieved September 24, 2008, from http://www.angelfire.com/wi2/spreadsheet/necc.html
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Great Lesson Joline! This was an excellent way to introduce children to excel (either for the first time or after many times). I also really enjoy the aspect of printing the children's work off in order to use it in further work in the classroom. This is great for the kids to be able to keep using the work from their lesson continually. Great way to build self esteem! Maybe an extension from this project would be to maybe use another aspect of excel such as simple graphs or charts to further the idea of counting up to 100 (eg. maybe use a column graph to show how many 10's are in a hundred and how many 5's, 2's and 1's are in 100. This would also show that by adding 10's instead of 5's, a person could get to 100 in a smaller amount of time and effort.)
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