Our math teachers are getting ready to do a lesson study using the iPads Graphs App. Each PLC is supposed to do a lesson study to present to the faculty at the end of the year. I am excited for this. So far no department ha implemented one activity on the iPad throughout the department, they just do things individually. I am glad to see this changing. I think it is unfair that only the students who have teachers that are comfortable with the iPads get to use them. I think all classes within a department should be doing the same thing so that no kid gets left out, but that has not been the case. Way to go math department for stepping up! I think this is a step in the right direction and as more people get comfortable with the iPads this will become a regular thing.
So what are they doing? Well they are still in the planning phases but essentially, they are taking a lesson they usually do as a group that deals with interpreting data from different kinds of graphs, and having students work through it on their own on the iPad. The app is called graphs by tap to learn. It has 2 modes, learn and test. Students will go through the learning mode, and then when they test they will show their scores to the teacher as they go. One of the teachers is going to be absent on the day they are doing this, so I will get to do it with her class, I will share with you the results.
Here is a link to the app:
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