The 2nd Grade students in Mrs. Whitlow’s class at Glen Lea did a fabulous job creating a Pixie to practice solving word problems using subtraction. They practiced clicking and dragging to pull animals into their farm. The were asked to choose the same type of animal, but they could drag up to 10 of the same animal. Then they divided their animals so that some were in the field and some were in the barn. The students pulled in a barn sticker to cover hide some of the animals. Finally, they filled in their word problems with the correct information. We ended our lesson by practicing saving the work to their student folder. Now Mrs. Whitlow has a whole folder of practice word problems that she can project on the board and have her students solve. After they work out the answer, they can drag the barn to the side to reveal how many animals are in the barn.

Thanks for the great idea and template Jessica!