Digital Age Skills: Knowledge of Multiplication
Overview
This resource was created by MeLinda Cromer in collaboration with Karen Dux as part of the 2019-20 ESU-NDE Digital Age Pedagogy Project. Educators worked with coaches to create Lesson Plans promoting both content area and digital age skills. This Lesson Plan is designed for 3-5th grade math.
Lesson
Participant Name: MeLinda Cromer
Coach Name: Karen Dux
Student Grade Level: 3, 4, 5
Content Area: Math
List Content Area Standard (Link to NDE Standards):
MA 3.1.2.c Use drawings, words, arrays, symbols, repeated addition, equal groups, and number lines to explain the meaning of multiplication.
List Digital Age Skill (Link to ISTE Standards):
Creative Communicator: Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.
Brief Description of what Students might do to show mastery of both Content & Digital Skills:
Students will demonstrate their knowledge of multiplication by showing equal groups through a digital platform. While creating images to support their conclusions, students will communicate their thinking aloud.
Investigate (Link to Toolkit):
Compare / Contrast 2 Tools students could use to accomplish the goal:
| Criteria (Link) | Educreations | SeeSaw |
| Engagement | Students use the app as directed by the teacher (3) | Student is highly motivated touse the app (4) |
| Sharing | Specific performance summary or student product is saved in app and can be exported to the teacher or for an audience (4) | Specific performance summary or student product is saved in app and can be exported to the teacher or for an audience (4) |
| Thinking Skills | App encourages the use ofhigher order thinking skillsincluding creating, evaluating,and analyzing (4) | App encourages the use ofhigher order thinking skillsincluding creating, evaluating,and analyzing (4) |
Which Tool have you selected? Why?
While both tools have encouraged the use of higher order thinking skills and can easily communicate a specific performance to the teacher or audience, SeeSaw appears to provide a highly motivating experience for elementary students. The tools and formatting are student-friendly which provides an engaging atmosphere to share their knowledge.
Description: What will students do?
Students will demonstrate their knowledge of multiplication by showing equal groups through a digital platform. While creating images to support their conclusions, students will communicate their thinking aloud.
Rubric Assessment: How will you grade student work? (Include link to rubric)
Math Rubric: Multiplication-Equal Groups
Link to Exemplary student work: SeeSaw Link
Recommendations: What went well / What would you do differently?
Students enjoyed being able to create their own equal groups pictures. They were able to have a deeper understanding of how multiplication can be shown using equal groups by vocalizing their ideas aloud while recording. Students were able to experiment with the different tools and personalize their equal groups pictures, adding to the student interest in the learning activity. When they were done, students were able to watch and listen to their equal groups recording in order to critique their own work: double checking that they had the correct amount of groups, that there were equal parts in each group, and that the total was correct (according to the multiplication problem). Next time I do this activity, I intend to have students watch their peers’ examples. I would also like to have some SeeSaw examples that include incorrect equal groups for students to analyze and correct.