Tap an Image Error Identification Weekly Woot

Tap an Image Error Identification Weekly Woot

This week we have a short post talking about how to leverage the tap an image task type in Woot Math Polls to help promote error detection and the standards for mathematical practice.

This poll focuses on slope intercept form and is aligned to HMH module 6 lesson 1. It can be found using hash tag #hmh or #hmh6.1 if your school uses HMH, this is a great way to search for other tasks aligned to this publisher.

Task #1
The first task in this poll asks students to tap on a mistake in the reasoning. There are two mistakes, this is intended to help facilitate discussion among the students.

– Task 1: Tap on the Mistake –

After everyone has posted their responses you can reveal student answers without showing who is correct (deselect reveal answer).

– Toggle Off Display Work –

Your student work would look something like this:

- Heat Map of Student Responses -

This would be a great chance for a little small group discussion. Students can talk about why they chose what they did, if they think there is another correct answer, if they want to change their answer and what they think their peers who answered differently were thinking. To help facilitate this, the next task is the same as task 1 but with discussion questions in the scratch pad. After students are done discussing their responses you can have them try the task again. If everyone aced task 1 you can always skip task 2.

These tap an image, error detection problems are great for working on the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice, particularly:

CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP3 Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP6 Attend to precision.

Students have the opportunity to look for errors and make arguments for why something might be an error. They also can argue why someone’s choice was or was not correct.

This practice of writing down a solution to a problem with errors, taking a picture and making it into a poll is generalizable to pretty much any subject in math or even other subjects. I prefer having multiple mistakes since they tend to lead to better discussions but examples with single mistakes work well too.

This poll shows us how we can use tap an image tasks to get students reflecting on their procedures for solving a problem.

Get started by previewing the poll right now, or login to wootmath.com and search for Tap an Image Error Identification in the Shared Gallery.

Preview the Quiz

Visit our page on Formative Assessment for more information on implementing these strategies in your classroom.

Stay tuned for next week’s post!

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November 19, 2018October 1, 2020

How can I format my formative assessment?

In general, you can add formatting by using the html-like style attributes. That means that you’ll want to put html tags (the < and > symbols) around the words that you want to format. Just copy and paste the examples below to get started!

Bold
To make something bold, add:
<bold>this is now bold</bold>

Underline
To make something underlined, add:
<underline>this is now underlined</underline

Italics
To make something italicized, add:
<i>this is now italicized</i>

Center
This is the syntax for centering text:
<center>this is now centered</center>

Code
There is also a syntax to show computer code:
<code>this is code</code>

Line
To make a horizontal line:
<hr>

Here is an example which contains each of the examples mentioned above. When you create the formative assessment, simply add the desired format text around the text string as shown:

Examples:

And here is the resulting text with the set format:

You can also add a variety of colors, using the following tags:

Red text:
<red>Red text here.</red>

Orange text:
<orange>Orange text here.</orange>

Yellow text:
<yellow> Yellow text here.</yellow>

Green text:
<green>Green text here.</green>

Blue text:
<blue>Blue text here.</blue>

Purple text:
<purple> Purple text here.</purple>

Gray text:
<gray>Gray text here.</gray>

Black text:
<black>Black text here.</black>

Brown text:
<brown>Brown text here.</brown>

Pink text:
<pink>Pink text here.</pink>

Additional formatting options are also available to help you write mathematical notation, which are documented in the Math Editor Guide. And for additional control of your layout, you can also use a subset of the LaTex typesetting system.

November 19, 2018November 19, 2018

What are some ways to challenge my students using Woot Math?

Adaptive Learning covers key material around rational numbers with grade-aligned standards from grade 3 to grade 7. Students work independently through a personalized progression of levels that adapts based on their performance. You can learn more about this National Science Foundation funded, research-backed learning tool for your classroom here.

For quality implementation, we generally recommend students strive for 2 stars on all levels/books in Adaptive Learning. We do have some teachers that require 3 stars for all levels/books, although this can be a difficult for some students due to the bonus and more challenging questions sometimes presented. However, for students that are seeking more of a challenge, three stars on all levels is certainly a good goal to strive for! (Follow these links to learn more about the implementation guidelines for grades 3-5 and 6+.)

Woot Math’s educators are also continually creating high-quality rich tasks (rich tasks are items that we consider more than just a quiz or a homework). Search for #richtasks or #IllustrativeMathematics to see a sampling of these rich tasks! You can also filter by grade or topic to quickly find something in alignment with your current needs. Then you can either assign your whole class, or individual students, these questions to work on.

Another idea is to group students that are doing very well together, and have them work to create their own tasks similar to what they’ve run with the #richtasks or #IllustrativeMathematics mentioned above. In this case, we recommend having them start with paper and pencil to write out their questions and ideas, and then submit them to you for feedback. You could also have them do a “final project” which would be to create (with your the help, since they will need access to a teacher account to create content) a poll that they could run with the class! (For more information on how to create your own quizzes or tasks, see here.)

November 15, 2018November 16, 2018

Dust or Magic

“An idea can become dust or magic
depending upon the talent that rubs against it.”
– Matsuo Bashō (松尾芭蕉)

Last week I got back from Dust or Magic’s Fall Institute, one of my favorite “grow and learn” events of the year. It has been awhile since I attended, but I won’t make that mistake again. After writing up my notes for Woot Math’s team, I realized that some of what I captured might be interesting to the broader Woot Math community.

To begin, we were encouraged to keep a quote journal over the 2 days to capture favorite quotes to share with the whole group. I love this idea and plan to try to keep it up now that I’m back home in Boulder. Here is a screenshot of my new journal with some of my quotes…

There were several terrific speakers, but here are two in particular that I keep thinking about.

Jesse Schell
VR and AR: What’s Now, What’s Next?

Jesse is the CEO Schell Games and a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

Luckily, I found essentially the same keynote address, here. It is fascinating look at the future of VR and AR, and I highly recommend watching the whole thing. Here are some of my takeaways:

New technologies always start with limited adoption followed by an exponential rise, as illustrated here:

“You only own the technologies you grew up in.”
– Jesse Schell

Jesse predicts that the “knee in the curve” for VR is coming and coming soon.
As the price continues to drop, VR will be affordable for its key market,
people under 25.
VR will become social, and social is what always drives exponential growth.

“VR is the most powerful of all digital social experiences.”
– Jesse Schell

Where do we need AR? An ideal use of augmented reality is AR games in a self-driving car that happen outside the car. Bonus, you can play them without getting motion sick – unlike reading.
Jesse poses that the killer VR and AR applications are for children (and illustrates it with a hilarious story that you will see if you watch the video.) VR is an augmentation of your imagination. Not surprising that children LOVE it SO MUCH!

“We as designers are designing the eyes of the next generation. I urge you to make sure we make the best damn eyes the world has ever known.”
– Jesse Schell

Jim Marggraff
"What have we learned this year, and what can we expect for 2019?"

Jim is an inventor and an entrepreneur. You may or may not know his name, but you probably know his inventions like the LeapPad Learning System and Livescribe smartpen.

Most recently, Jim founded Eyefluence, the first eye-interaction technology for AR and VR devices which can transform your intent through the action of your eyes. It was bought by Google in 2016. In 2018, Jim got the entrepreneurial bug again, and left Google to explore technology that offers the potential to make the world a better place. He shared his journey to do just that in a keynote at Dust or Magic, and some of what he covered you can watch here.

Jim believe that VR offers the potential to rally people around social justice issues. In 2017, Jim demonstrated this by raising money in partnership with Google for the VR film “One Small Act”.

Through VR, the film shares the story of a little girl from both the point of view of the girl and her teddy bear. Through their journey, the film highlights the impact of Rotary’s End Polio Campaign. It was originally screened to a record breaking 3,000 people simultaneously.

Jim is currently writing a book, How to Raise a Founder with Heart, that is scheduled to be released early next year. I can’t wait. Jim believes,

“Violence is not a sustainable means of conflict resolution.”
– Jim Marggraff

I always leave Dust or Magic with a list of books that I want to read. Here is some of the titles that made the list this year:

The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses by Jesse Schell
How to Raise a Founder with Heart by Jim Marggraff (coming Spring 2019)
Understanding Kids, Play, and Interactive Design: How to Create Games Children Love Paperback by Mark Schlichting
iThrive’s Journal of Games, Self, and Society edited by Susan Rivers
Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull

Last, I leave you with a recommendation that is sure to make you smile. It is from a charming presentation by Vikas Gupta, the CEO of Wonder Workshop.

Vikas began by sharing this hilarious video about teaching dogs to code. Wonder Workshop is serious about it, and they believe you should be too. Enjoy.

November 12, 2018November 12, 2018

Two Digit Addition and Subtraction

Task 1

It’s great to start a poll with a fun question, something that everyone gets right or that makes us all feel good. For this poll, we start with a check-in about how students are feeling. The problem asks to “Tap the bird that best describes how you feel”. There is no right or wrong answer so students have the opportunity to express themselves. Not only does Woot Math Polls help you learn about what your students know, it also lets you learn how they feel and build a positive classroom culture… Woot!

Task 2

Task 2 asks students to add 68 to 35 and to show their work. Students can use the scratchpad to show their reasoning. Note how the calculator tool is not available for this task (all of the scratchpad tools can be enabled or disabled under “Scratchpad Settings” for any given task).

– Task 2 Prompt –

After students submit responses, I recommend you go over a few of them. Students may be using different strategies that are worth pointing out. Regardless it is good to validate their thinking and review how the 1s, 10s, and 100s places are apparent in each step.

Task 3

Task 3 is quite similar to task 2 but involves subtraction. In reviewing student work, this is a great opportunity to review how you are breaking groups of 10 into 10 1s, which will help your students develop number sense beyond the algorithms necessary for getting the right answer. We have the following response bookmarked, called “tens and ones”, to help review that concept.

– Task 3 Work Shown –

Get started by previewing the poll right now, or login to wootmath.com and search for Two Digit Addition and Subtraction in the Shared Gallery.

Visit our page on Formative Assessment for more information on implementing these strategies in your classroom.Task

November 8, 2018December 11, 2018

Clever Support for Your School or District

Woot Math now integrates with Clever.

If your school or district is already using Clever for student rostering and sign-on, Woot Math now integrates with Clever. So if your students are already used to logging in via Clever for other applications, Woot Math will now just work seamlessly. Woot!

For those schools using iPads, please be sure to update your iPad to the latest version from the iTunes App Store here.

To request access to Woot Math via Clever, please contact your Clever administrator and request that Woot Math be added to Clever, or contact us and we can send them an invitation to add Woot Math on your behalf.

Woot Math is also available in the Clever Library, which supports teachers that want to try Clever for free.

November 8, 2018November 8, 2018

New Save and Share Feature

Sometimes a small change can have a disproportionately large effect. In chaos theory this is called the butterfly effect (also a film with Ashton Kutcher that you probably forgot about until now). Here at Woot Math, we call it Save and Share. That’s right, a new feature was released that lets you copy any poll to your Woot Math account, even if it has not been approved by us yet. All you need is the link.

Imagine this scenario:
You’re on Twitter and notice someone made and shared a Woot Math warm-up activity that would be perfect for your class tomorrow, if only you could make a few changes first. Just there’s no time to wait, since class is tomorrow! (Woot Math screens all published polls for accuracy and appropriateness, you’re welcome!). Now, you can copy any poll that you have a link to preview, just click the save and share button in the upper right.

– Question 1 – Preview to get to Save and Share –

Then, click the save button and it will be copied into your Woot Math account. If you’re not logged in, a pop-up will prompt you to do so. Now the warm up is yours so you can make any changes you want (well, technically, it is an identical copy of it is yours, but let’s not split hairs).

This feature, although seemingly small, has lots of great applications. It allows you to collaborate on designing assessments with your department. The feature came as a request from one of our teacher partners, Rebekah Cook at Skyline High School, who was writing assessments with her math department colleagues and wanted to be able to share assessments quickly without waiting on them going public. Now she can make edits to Woot Math quizzes that her colleagues wrote, customizing them to her class. Thanks Rebekah for the great suggestion!

You can also now send assessments to your colleagues to re-align the content. If they’re a little behind or ahead of you in a unit they can add or remove problems. It also lets you edit a poll that has not yet been published. You can add language supports, hints or bonus problems to the scratchpad if you think students need more support/challenge.

We’d love to hear how you’re using the Save & Share button, leave a comment below or tweet @WootMath.

For more information on implementing Woot Math in your classroom, visit our page on Formative Assessment.

October 9, 2018November 8, 2018

New iPad App Update

The new app includes an updated student dashboard, the ability to run both Adaptive Learning and Formative Assessments (polls), and new 7th grade lessons. Download it now for FREE!

For those of you looking to get started with Woot Math this fall, here is a quick (2 minute) video on some of the changes for the new year. We welcome your feedback, and look forward to working together again this year.

August 24, 2018September 13, 2018

Weekly Math Poll – Back to School

While we created this activity for the math classroom, it can easily be adapted for any subject. In fact, the first four of six tasks contain no math. To customize this activity to meet your individual classroom needs, select “copy” and edit away in your account!

The first task has a throwback to some math history with the ancient calculator, an abacus. Obviously, students no longer need to lug these to class. We hope some students may select the other correct answer that they don’t need “Snapchat Skills” for school. Feel free to customize for your specific classroom requirements (laptop/tablet, textbook, binder, etc.)

The scratchpad is a helpful tool for hints, bonus problems and language supports. This task has a definition of an abacus in case that is a new word for your students. Adding support in the scratchpad can help prevent language from being a barrier to students’ math success.

Task 2 is a two-for-one (a twofer!) with students reflecting on important strategies for school success and practicing productive turn-and-talk with a partner. After students have talked for a few minutes they can enter their ideas in the short answer box.

Task 3 lets them practice the tap on their favorite strategy for school success. It is fun and will result in some lively discussion if you take some time to discuss the resulting heat map of student responses with the entire class!

Task 4 is like that game two truths and a lie, except there are two lies and only one truth. Here at Woot Math, we encourage students to show their work (so A is not true) and we sometimes have tips and hints in the scratchpad (so B is not true). We also believe in second chances and let students go back and change their submission as long as the teacher hasn’t revealed the answer yet (so C is true).

Ideally students read option B and look to the scratchpad to see if there are any helpful tips. The hint suggests they try submitting and then changing their answer to test if C is the correct answer. If all goes well, your students will be forming hypotheses, gathering data and drawing conclusions. Hey wait a minute! This is starting to sound more like science class than math.

Task 5 gives them a math problem to compute an area from a length and a width. This task has them practicing how to use the calculator tool in the scratchpad to show their work. Note that when you create activity like this one, you can control which scratchpad tools your students have access to by going to Scratchpad Settings. You can learn more about customizing student tasks here.

This is also a good reminder for them that units matter and sometimes a problem will have two blanks, one for the number and one for the unit. The correct answer for the units here is “square feet” but Woot Math also accepts “feet squared” “ft^2” and “sq feet”. Multiple correct answers are separated by a semi-colon (AKA winky face ;). This problem also allows for up to 1 typo. Notice how the bonus problem asks them to make a typo deliberately to see if they still get it right. Having students understand how Woot Math evaluates their work can be helpful.

The final task has them practice showing their work in the scratchpad. The example given demonstrates one of many methods for solving the problem. The three numbers are broken down into the 100s, 10s and 1s, grouped and then added. Encourage your students to try an alternate strategy.

This activity is a fun and engaging start to the Fall. We hope you enjoy it, and we wish you and your students a terrific new school year!

Get started by previewing the poll right now, or login to wootmath.com and search for Back to School in the Shared Gallery.

Visit our page on Formative Assessment for more information on implementing these strategies in your classroom.

July 2, 2018September 13, 2018

Weekly Math Poll – 4th of July

We start the poll with a basic American history question asking which document was signed on the 4th of July, 1776. We expect nearly all your students will know the answer, regardless it is a great reminder of what we celebrate on this fine day.

Next, we move on to some math about a problem that that many of us encounter every year when planning a BBQ. The number of buns and the number of hot dogs just don’t match! We ask students to find the least common multiple of 6 and 8 to see just how big a party they would need to throw to have a perfect match.

Practicing problems with least common multiples…check. Thinking about food waste and business marketing… check. For added fun, ask your students to draw a picture to justify their reasoning or solve the problem in two or three different ways.

The scratchpad is also a great place to put reminders or fun facts relating to the problem.

The rest of this poll is aligned to Algebra I standards on modeling linear inequalities, graphing them and transforming them.

Tasks 3 and 4 have students imagine they are throwing a mini-firework show for their school and need to stay within the constraints of their budget and time expectations. If they get the math right, they will find that they do not have enough money to make the show long enough. If this were a real situation, these types of analysis would be helpful in arguing for a larger budget, lower permit costs or shorter time requirements.

Task 5 asks them to identify which graph is a solution to the inequality. I like making tasks like this with screenshots of actual graphs merged into one image for a tap-an-image multiple choice. The visual display of the heatmap can lead to some productive discussions in the classroom, especially if you have the “show answer” button turned off. If you do, the projected results will be a heatmap of student responses. This is a great time for a whole class or small group discussion (try the automatic grouping feature) about the task. If you want, you can create a copy of this task and then run it again after the discussion to see if everyone converges on the correct answer. Get started by previewing the poll right now, or login to wootmath.com and search for 4th of July in the Shared Gallery.

Visit our page on Formative Assessment for more information on implementing these strategies in your classroom.

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