NARRATOR: At Our Lady of Mt Carmel Primary School,
Kate, a graduate teacher, plans a mathematics lesson
on number patterns.
She builds on and expands the students' learning opportunities
by focusing this lesson
around the use of ICT.
Alright, everyone have a look at this 100s board for me.
And who can find all the patterns in here?
Just have a think before you put your hand up. Have a think.
How many patterns can you see? What kind of patterns?
Alright.
Atika, name a pattern for me.
In your twos. Like, two, four, six, eight.
Yep. Good. That is a pattern. Good.
-Harriet?
-10s.
Mm-hm. How does 10s go again?
10, 20, 30...
Yep. Good. Harry?
HARRY: The threes.
3, 6, 9, 12, 15.
OK, Harry, can you go and choose a colour on the side for me
and colour in that pattern for me?
You just have to choose one of those colours
and colour in the pattern you just told me.
Got three, six, nine,
12, 15, 18...
Alright. That will do. Thanks, Harry.
So for the first iPad app,
it was looking at dot-to-dot number sequencing.
So I set that up myself
and I went in and made an account for each of the iPads
and set it so that only four and nine times tables could be shown.
The second one was a 100s number board
with all the numbers muddled up onto the side
and, again, I told them to do the fours and the nines.
So they picked either the fours or the nines
and they had to put the numbers onto that number board appropriately.
So they could drag the four, then they could drag the eight,
then they could drag the 12.
And another boy said - I didn't know this - but you could actually...
If you couldn't remember what comes next
but you remember the one after that, you could actually drag it.
So for 28, for instance, and then come back to the 24.
So that was the other activity.
The third computer activity was the dog and the bone one
where they just give a blank number board, a 100s board.
It displays a number on the side - say 13 -
and they have to try to find that within the number board
as quickly as they can.
So it's working on timing and also strategies
that they could...the quickest strategy they could find
so they could find the number.
The third one was a counting game as well.
Also fours and nines.
They had to pick...fours and nines
and simply just click the right number
to count in the right order, which were all muddled up.
So those were the four activities.
