I had a blast with Ms. Hazelgrove and her 2nd graders today as we created math word problems involving addition with regrouping.
Before I came in, Ms. Hazelgrove had her students write a snow themed math word problem that involved addition with regrouping in their math journals. This saved us so much time because the kids had a vision and got straight to the creation piece! Using the iPads, students navigated to the Doodle Buddy app, chose a winter themed background, wrote their addition problem and then solved it. They saved their image to the camera roll and imported it into the app, FaceTalker. FaceTalker is a new app for me and it worked beautifully! FaceTalker is a lot like Chatterkid and YakIt; however, you can cut out a face to put on a background. The best part is, FaceTalker doesn’t have a recording time limit! Oh yeah, it is free too! I’m looking forward to using this app in the future: turn yourself into an Ancient Egyptian and tell about the civilization, turn yourself into a white tailed deer and tell about the lifecycle, turn yourself into a character in a book and do a summary….so many options! Our last step had students record themselves reading their math word problem and teach the viewer how to solve the problem.
Check out their adorable creations:
Hazelgrove’s Word Problems from Julie on Vimeo.
