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LESSON PLAN
Name: Angela Brown
Subject Area: Mathematics
Grade: 4
Lesson Title: The Multiplication Game Show
Brief Lesson Description:
Students will review multiplication skills from the Smart Board and share their strategies by videotaping themselves to
share with the rest of the class at a later date.
Provincial Content Standards/Outcome
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SCO:
N5: Describe and apply mental mathematics strategies, such as:
skip counting from a known fact
using doubling or halving
Smart Board or other projection device with speakers and iTunes or other media player.
http://www.multiplication.com/games
Computers/iPads
Video camera (or iPad if possible)
Procedure:
Before the Lesson:
- Set out the materials students will choose from when they make their video.
- Download a QR scanner application onto any iPads in the classroom so the student can scan the QR code posted
on a wall in the classroom to play a game on the internet that teaches them multiplication.
- Create the Smart board game for the students to play after as a drill. Make a playlist on youtube of songs your
students like so you can play it while they work on the application in pairs. Establish what questions you want to
ask your students to activate their prior knowledge of multiplication strategies and in terms of open-ended
questions that makes them think about other ways, or why they like what they do to determine their answers.
After the Lesson:
- Have any iPads used stacked gently in a container to be stored on a shelf for safe keeping
- If there is not time to play the game, or some students seem interested in it as others may be done earlier, give them
the URL in which they can go home and ask their parents if they can practice on the home computer.
The teacher will ask the students what they do to help them figure out certain multiplication equations by writing
one down, asking how to do it, and showing an example of another one. Equations are random but be sure to
squeeze in some tricky ones like 9x or 7x.
Ask them what the rules are for 1x and 0x and how we know this
Ask students which strategy they prefer. Do they use mental math? Why?
Model an example of a strategy they have not done before (possibly learning 9x rules on fingers)
Ask students, when can we apply multiplication in real life? and write these answers down on a new blank Smart
Board screen
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To boost their confidence after the discussion, exaggerate how they now seem more than ready to begin the
Smart Board Multiplication Game Show Challenge. The drills will be in the form of a Smart Board game called,
The Multiplication Game Show. This game is attached to the lesson plan with rules on how to teach and play it.
After they will all make their video (20-30min). They will view their videos after the teacher has compiled them into
a folder in the class computer.
Assessment Method
Students will peer assess their teammates. This group assessment will be completed next class as some may need next
class to finish. A sample of the assessment is below.The Smart Board game is a tool to see how fast they can all recall the
times tables and the making of the video will give the teacher the ability to observe and compare what he/she sees in the
classroom to how the students assess each other. The Remind app will be used to let students, if they have a phone, and
parents safely know how they are doing once you are finished assessing. This works well in letting parents know of how
hard the students worked, and how they are doing.
Rubric for the Group Project:
Categories
Math Work
Poor
1 pts 1 pts
Fair
2 pts 2 pts
Good
3 pts 3 pts
Excellent
4 pts 4 pts
Comments
(N/A) N/A
Poor
Fair
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Comments
Work could be
better organized
and easier to
understand. Some
grammatical
errors.
Work was
organized and
understandable.
There were some
good approaches
used.
Group work/
study time
Participation
Poor
Fair
Good
Excellent
Needs
Used time wisely Group stayed on
improvement on
when working
task the entire
how to use time
together in group. class time allotted
wisely when
Group was focused for the project.
working together on task. Asked
Group was
in a group. Group questions when
organized and able
basically stayed on stuck or required to complete
task, but was not guidance.
project with little
fully focused on
to no assistance
project. Teacher
from the teacher.
had to speak to
the group to keep
them on task.
Poor
Fair
Good
One or two
members of the
group did all the
work. Some
refused to
participate or were
not allowed to
help.
One or two
members of the
group didn't help
complete tasks.
Group was
constantly
covering for team
members or not
encouraging them
to participate.
Excellent
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