Adding and Subtracting Decimal Project!

What's more real life application than shopping?!?  To practice adding and subtracting decimals my students went shopping and created receipts!  They then had to pay extra money and find how much change they got back.  I took screen shots of different items that I knew they would enjoy.  The iCloud has the capabilities to photo stream to ALL 30 iPads.  The students looked through the items and selected four items.  They found the total, listed how much they paid and found how much change they got back.  After students finished their own receipts, they checked their neighbors.

I also had a group of students who needed to practice estimation.  This group did the same thing but before they found the total they rounded the prices.  This gave them their estimation practice.  After they completed their receipts and I checked them, they wrote estimation story problems to go with those problems.

Back in school!

The excitement mounts as the iPads are slowly introduced!  I'm all about introducing the iPads completely; but I've had some technology challenges this year!  The Friday before school started, my laptop to sync my iPads crashed due to an email virus!  I just got my laptop back this week.  My email was down for a little while and I was waiting for the Syncing cart to be delivered!  I started by showing my kiddos the covers and listened to them Oooohh and Awww!  A few days later I showed them 10 of the iPads; only to listen to them cheer!  We used iPads last week to research precipitation averages in different states.  We only had 7 iPads out and the kids all just wanted to touch them!  I couldn't given any of them enough time on it!  :)  The cart was delivered Friday and the kids all CHEERED when they found out!  Tuesday, they are going to play a place value game on their own iPad and I cannot wait to see their enthusiasm to practice place value.

Thank you again Lemons for the great opportunities you've brought to our classroom! :)