The 5th grade students at Trevvett are preparing for their upcoming benchmark tests. Elapsed time is always a tricky concept, so today we did math review stations. At the Promethean Board, students took turns using the interactive clock as a model to solve the elapsed time problem. On each slide, there is a sound recording with an elapsed time scenario. They have to listen to, and fill in the important information (start time, stop time, etc.). Then they use the interactive clock to solve the problem.
While the student at the board is working through the problem, the other students have white boards and are using whatever strategies they prefer to solve the problem.
When everyone was finished we took a look at all the final answers and shared the different ways that they arrived at the same answer, as well as figuring out where mistakes were made. My favorite part of this lesson was when another student perfectly explained the method that works for him and the other students benefited from seeing him work out the problem in this way. True collaboration and communication in action!
