Grade 4 Whole numbers (Subtraction)

In the Grade 4 curriclum there is a unit on whole number subtraction. The website that I thought that the students would really enjoy is Quia Math Journey. This is a fun and interactive site that allows students to practice their subtraction skills in a really fun way. On this site it will give you 30 questions and start at a specific location (Ex. Istanbul, Turkey) and every time you get the right answer you travel to a new destination (Ex. Karachi, Pakistan). Every time you get an answer wrong you will miss you flight and have to stay at that location until you get it right. Once you get 3 answers wrong your journey is over and the game ends. This site allows the students to practice their Math and also to see different locations throughout the world, that they may have never heard of before.

To incorporate this in the class, I would use it at the end of the semester and use it as an online test. There are 30 questions on the site, so each question would be worth one mark for a total of 30 marks. I would give the students a blank piece of paper to do their math work on and I would also make them hand in that sheet so it shows me that they did their work. I would also have the students write down all the locations that they went to and then I would be able to incorporate those cities into our social studies class in the geography unit. This site would make the students want to get the right answers so they could keep discovering all these new locations. At the end of the test I would record their mark out of 30 and see how many they got wrong. If some students didn’t get to do the 30 questions we would sit down and see where they went wrong with their work on the paper.

This is a great Math site for kids and I think that it would make a test, which would usually be very stressful, a relaxing and fun experience. I think that the students would be more laid back and it would allow them to focus more on the questions. I truly believe that when students are comfortable in class they will perform better. For students it is nice to have a change, instead of doing written test after written test. That is why, having a test and site like this will allow the students to have some variety to their testing, by having it in an interactive way which they can enjoy.

Have a great day everyone!!