Two Apss Activity

      Hello, I am going to talk about an activity for your math classes that requires the use of two technological apps.

Purpose: What's the purpose of the activity? What will the participants gain as a result of it?

The main topic of the activity is fractions; students will be able to understand fraction concepts and can compare fractions through the activity. They are expected to design a dream house with given fraction restrictions.

 For example, the size of the bedroom is 1/4 of the home and the kitchen covers 1/5 of the whole house, etc. Then children sketch their homes up according to given fractions.  While doing this activity, students will gain the skills of fraction computation (mostly addition) and understanding of part/whole concepts of fractions. Also, this activity allows children to produce their own products because they can arrange the home according to their inspirations.

After the homes are sketched up, the Kahoot link will be shared with students. There will be questions about the comparisons of the sizes of rooms(fractions).

For example;

The bedroom is 1/2 of the living room. (T/F)

The kitchen is bigger than a balcony. (T/F)

Which one is bigger than the dining room? (roof= or = kitchen)

Thanks to this activity they may understand the sizes of fractions and compare them.

Tools: Which mobile applications will be used in this activity? Name tools, and include URLs.

Sketchup will be used at the beginning of the activity.

-https://www.sketchup.com/

 Kahoot

-https://kahoot.it/#/

Procedure: What will the teacher and the participants do? How will these tools be used?

The activity includes two apps to use in class.

Firstly, the fraction restrictions for dream house activity will be given by the teacher. Each room size represents a fraction. (Kitchen 1/4 of the house, living room 1/3 of the house, balcony 1/2 of the living room, and so on.)  after the given restrictions for the size of rooms, students try to sketch their home up. To sketch their homes as 3D manipulations, they need to compute fractions and make some calculations on them because they need to represent a home as 1(whole) and the rooms are parts of this whole. In this activity they are free to produce their dream house, they may sketch different combinations of rooms in 3D, they may prefer a duplex building or not.

   In the second part, the teacher prepares Kahoot questions and shares the pin with students. Then, the teacher expects that students will make comparisons by using their plan of dream houses.

The questions will be;

-The bedroom is 1/2 of the living room. (T/F)

-The kitchen is bigger than a balcony. (T/F)

-Which one is bigger than the dining room? (roof or kitchen)

-1/2 of the living room is bigger than the kitchen(T/F)

The teacher is responsible for preparing questions, helping children to make comparisons, ıf there would be some problems with the activities, a teacher should have knowledge of the use of apps and the relation between the apps and the main topic of the lesson.