This week I was able to integrate a few of the lessons created by Texas Instrument to replace some of the lectures that I taught this week. For the sixth graders we started a unit on rational and irrational numbers. The activity begun with having the students view a movie from the web called "Weird Numbers" (http://ciese.org/ciesemath/number_town.html) Although I thought this was a wonderful way to get the students thinking about the different types of numbers, the movie was a Quicktime movie and I did not have the option to view it full screen. The picture was about 6 in x 6 in on the board. I was wondering if I downloaded the Quicktime player Pro that you pay for, if I would then be able to make the movie bigger on my screen?
Once the students watched the movie, the calculator guided them through manipulating circles and triangles to learn about irrational numbers. Often times I feel as a Pre-Algebra teacher we don't get to cover as much Geometry as we should. So, I really liked how this activity integrated introducing irrational numbers with circles and triangles.
Tech Trouble-
(1) Students are not getting files when they log onto the Navigator. The only solution that I found was having the students log on again and the file would usually show up. If not, I was able to force send it again from my computer.
(2) The Quicktime movie could not be shown full screen.
(3) I still have a lot of communication errors from a lot of the calculators. I think it is kind of funny how these students are supposed to be so advanced with their technology skills, but as soon as these calculators give them any type of error they come directly to me to fix it for them.
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