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Math operations
This lesson plan is to help students learn operations using technology tools. Most the students take long time to understand operations because the way teachers usually teach them is not interesting for them. Students will learn operations playing, discussing, sharing ideas. In this way of teaching students won't be bored, they will learn fast and they learn many things in small time. At the end of this lesson plan student will be able to resolve operations of any digits. Lesson plan grade 6, term 1, Math curriculum

Learning outcomes
Students will:

Master operations in good environment using technological tools Improve their confidence using presentations Think like teachers in preparing exercises and correct them.

Teacher planning
TIME REQUIRED FOR LESSON
One up to two periods

MATERIALS/RESOURCES

Primary six preparation book Children must have books and pens (red and blue)

TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES

XO laptops

XO ACTIVITIES INVOLVED

Memorize TuxMath

Pre-activities / Starters / Hook

- Give right students to form and choose groups on their availability - Ask students what they think on operations. Teacher should ask these questions in order to start
discussion: what is operations? How many kind of operation exist? What problems have you met in resolving operations? Which way of studying operations do you think is good for you? .....

Activities
1. Tell students to prepare exercises on operations on paper (30 exercises). The teacher should tell
students to prepare exercise according what he wants to start teaching students. For example: they can prepare exercise on multiplication. 2. Tell students to give those exercises to his neighbor 3. Tell them to solve those exercises 4. Tell them to discuss each work of student as group 5. Tell them to create math game in memorize on operations 6. Tell them to switch their XO and play the game 7. Give time to students to ask the teacher questions that they might have. Before to answer any question teacher has to check if there is any student who is able to answer that question. 8. Tell them to play tux math 2 by 2. NB: - Make sure to follow what students are doing and try to help them proving ideas whenever will be necessary. - Make sure that all students are participating in group work.

Assessment
Assessment for this activity consists in: How students are participating in group works. How students will act in group proving ideas, solving operations and helping each other will show teacher to assess how they are improving in operations Teacher must tell each student to go in front of the class so his colleagues can ask him questions on operations. How students will answer these questions will help the teacher to assess the work of kids. How students will discuss on difficult questions as group. If the question they ask to the student in front is difficult, they can solve it as a group. This will help the teacher to assess how they understood operations. How students will do the homework given by teachers. Teacher will give homework related on operations in order to assess the work of kids. Homework has to be on operation students have studied, it can be on additional or multiplication. If they studied addition and multiplication at the same day, teacher has to give home work on both and at least 40 questions.

Rwandan curriculum alignment

MATHEMATICS (July-2005)
Grade 6 Goal: Children will apply the 4 operations in natural whole numbers

Annex
Teachers
In order to teach this activity a teacher should have these skills:

- Know how to use memorize:

In order to use memorize you have to open XO and click on memorize activity.

Here you are creating game, you have to write operation for example 34 x 4 in white space left box then it will appear on big box left then write answer in the white box at the right 136 it will appear in big box right then click add as new pair. What you wrote they will appear at right.

When you want to play, you have to click on play button. If you click where you are seeing 1. you have to find answer where you are seeing 2. When you click on the wrong answer nothing change and numbers disappear immediately But when you click on good answers the color change and numbers stay there.

-They should also know how to open tux math activity and play it.
Tuxmath is activity game help students to memorize and to understand operations. To play tuxmath open your XO then click on tuxmath activity

Then click play if you want to play or click exit if you don't want to continue. After clicking play, you have to choose if you want to play alone or with friends. You can also click on help if you need help, more options, quit if you don't want to continue. If you are alone click play alone.

After clicking on play alone you see many options but you have to click on math command training academy to choose what kind of operations. Here you see many kinds of operation like addition, subtraction, multiplication. You have to choose however you want. Let's choose addition two digits numbers. Then operations start to fall, you see 12 + 17 and 16 + 17. You have to type answer of operation then click enter in order to shoot, for example: 29. If you type wrong answer you lose target. You don't have to let operations get on ground. You have to you use your mind and brain to type answers fast in order to reduce operations are appearing on screen. If operations get on ground you lose. It means game get over and you start again. You can see how tuxmath motivate students to learn math in easy way. - Teacher should know importance of working in groups

Students

In order for students to fulfill this task, they should tried before to use those activities (memorize and tux math) . Students must have their own laptops so that they can find time to explore those activities. When students are at home they can find more time than at school to learn themselves some of activities.