Hello everyone. Today I'm going to show
you how you can create
interactive math activities like this
using Google slides.
Let's get started. First we're going to
start
in Google Drawing and create our
background
image. And we need to make sure that our canvas size
and drawing is the same as Google
slides. So we're going to go to file > page
setup.
We're going to change the page setup to
widescreen 16:9. 
Now it's the same size.
Now I'm going to insert my 10 frame by
using a table.
Insert > Table
I'm going to do a five by two.
I'm going to adjust it.
Go ahead and make my boxes bigger by
just hitting enter. 
And now I'm going to
select the entire table,
so that I can make the lines
a different color and
thicker. Oops too thick!
Let's change that back. All right.
Now at the bottom, I'm going to
create a
visual support for math equations.
So I'm going to go to shapes
and first I'm going to draw a circle. Now
if you hold down the shift key
while you do this, you'll get a perfect
circle instead of an oval.
I'm going to make this red.
Now I'm going to draw a square.
Again shapes and square.
Again if you hold down the shift key
you'll draw a square instead of a
rectangle.
I don't want this one red I'm going to
change the color to yellow.
And now i need a plus
and equals. So for that I'm going to use
a text box.
I'm going to go ahead and type my plus.
It's way too small.
So I'm going to come in and change the
font size
until U find something that I like.
Go ahead and center that.
And I'm going to draw a line
to represent where students are going to
write the sum.
Change the width. I'm going to select my
equal sign. I'm going to hold down the
option or
control key to copy. Change that to an
equal.
Do some final adjustments
and I'm pretty happy with this. So let's
go ahead and name it.
And now I'm going to download this as an
image file.
To download: file
menu > download and you want to choose png.
There it is now. I'm going to switch to
Google Slides.
U'm going to go ahead and change the
layout, so i can get rid of those boxes.
Make it blank
and now I'm going to insert my image. You
can do that by
a right click on the background of your
slide.
Choose change background.
Then choose image and I can just drag
that file U just downloaded.
Now here you have a choice. If i click
done,
that background will only be on that
slide. Uf i choose add a theme
then it will be on any slide that I add
to this file.
So I'm going to go ahead and choose add
to theme.
And then click done.
So now as you can see this is the
background.
So there's no moving any of these pieces. Now I'm ready to create my math
manipulatives.
So I'm going to do the same thing and
draw a circle using my shape tool.
Remember that shift key trick so you get
a perfect circle.
Use the paint bucket to change the color
and then do the same thing for the
square.
Now I could have also done this in
separate google drawing file
and then downloaded it as an image file
and dragged it in here.
I definitely recommend doing it in
Google Drawing,
especially if you are doing something
like place value discs
that has a drawing plus some text.
I wanted to jump in and talk about
accessibility for a minute.
Instead of trying to replicate exactly
those red and yellow round manipulatives
you may have in your classroom,
I made a deliberate design choice in the
name of accessibility.
Color colorblindness is prevalent among
boys
and often times can go undiagnosed
particularly in the earlier grades. And
as teachers we love our color coding.
It's a great strategy.
And sometimes unknowingly we fall in the trap of
get out your blue notebook. How many blue bears do you have?
How many red bears do you have? And all
of those
choices whether visually or what we're
saying orally
are not accessible for our students
who may be experiencing colorblindness.
So the tip is you never want to
communicate meaning by color alone.
By deliberately making a red circle
and a yellow square and in my
questioning
I can ask students how many red circles
do you have?
How many yellow squares? So instead of
just using how many red and yellow
pieces do you have?
you have this additional layer of
meaning that is going to create a more
inclusive activity that more students in
your classroom
will be able to access. Now back to
finishing up
this design. Now that you have your
counter shapes,
I'm going to show you how you can stack
them so when students drag them onto the
10 frame
they have one underneath. Also give you
something to consider when thinking
about connectivity.
So you're going to select the shape and
here I recommend doing a command
or ctrl d to duplicate.
And do that multiple times.
Then go ahead and select all
of the shapes. Go to the Range menu >
align line left.
We're going to do that again. Arrange a
line top.
Now you have a stack of those counters.
You're going to repeat this process
for the square. Command or control d
to duplicate multiple times.
Then select all the shapes,
go to arrange > align left
and then align at the top.
Now you have a stack of manipulatives.
Something to consider with this stack of
shapes
is depending on connectivity they can
take a long time to load
within the file. And so one thing that
you can do
instead of creating this stack is to
teach students how to duplicate the
shape
either using that command or control d
or
selecting the shape holding down the
control button
if they're on a chromebook or a pc on a
mac
it's the option button. And they can just
select
the shape drag it and then
release and that automatically
duplicates the shape.
Now I'm ready to add text
boxes to our number
sentence frame down below. So I'm going
to use the text box.
Go ahead and draw it over the shape. I
want to change
the font size. I'm going to center
the text
and then I'm going to use that copy
trick of holding down the option or
control key,  selecting the shape, 
and then going ahead
and dragging it.
That's going to keep my formatting
consistent
across the number sentence.
Now I'm ready to give my file a title
and then I'm going to make sure and
double check that everything
is how I want it in slide one
because then you can click on slide one
do a right click on slide one in the
sidebar
and then duplicate it.
And it's gonna have all those components
And you're ready to use
this in your LMS or
during live instruction so that every
student has a slide
where they can model their thinking
in terms of addition. If you learned
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everyone!
