Math Voicethread

We have been practcing giving evidence to support our thinking across curricular areas. For example, when we read a series of Frog and Toad stories we cited evidence in text to support what we thought were Frog's and Toad's character traits. In math we recently created criteria to evaluate math fact apps on the ipads. We decided on four criteria, or pieces of evidence, that would allow us to decide how good an app was. We would have evidence that an app was "good" if it was 1)fun, 2)easy to use, 3)helped us practice the skill (in this case additon and subtraction), and 4)checked our answers. Students worked in partners to evaluate math apps based on our four criteria and we came up with a list of 5 apps that our class thinks are "best." Each student chose the one they liked best and responded to a voicethread using evidence to tell why they think their favorite app is one of the best! This was a great project and the voicethread is such a neat way to sum up our result! You may click through the images shown on this voicethread to see screenshots of the 5 apps our class likes best, if you want to look for these on an ipad at home!