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2nd Grade Math

The lesson below is designed to help you address this nine weeks unit of study, as well as continuing threads. It includes: more and less likely, probability, and values of coins less than a dollar.

Math TEKS   NEISD Technology Standards
2.3C  Determine value of collection of coins less than a dollar B3 Use My Computer to navigate to available drives
2.11C   use data to describe events as more likely or less likely M1 Open an existing presentation on the student-shared directory
    M2 Use a teacher-created template to complete an activity
    M5 Add text to slides
    M7 Insert Pictures from Clipart Gallery
    M8 Use the Slide Sorter view to organize (change sequence) and edit presentation

Lesson Titles:  More or Less Likely? (Value of a collection of coins)

Software Application(s):  PowerPoint

Directions: 

These lessons will take two or three visits to the computer lab.  Before you go into the lab, be sure your students are familiar with "more" or "less likely" and when to use each of these terms.   Also, students working with the values of coins, should have experience using coins in the classroom to find different combinations to make a certain value less than a dollar. 

More or Less Likely?

Begin by going over the PowerPoint template on More or Less Likely happenings in the classroom so students will know what to expect when they go to the lab.  (You might even have one or two students come to the computer to drag a picture or two onto the line as they will be doing on their own.) Once students are familiar with the process of clicking and dragging, they are ready to go to the lab to work on their own template. 

Once the students have logged in, have them go to the student shared drive, find where you have placed the template, and save it to their own directories. Click here to find the directions that work well with younger students.

Your students can work independently or with a partner.

For most of the slides, the students will read the question and then click and drag the picture or answer in the blank at the bottom of the slide.  For the last three slides, the students will make up their own "more or less likely" question, and insert pictures or words. 

When everyone is finished, have students switch computers and see if they can solve each other's questions.  Students can then save their work and print it out to make small books.

Value of a Collection of Coins

For this lesson be sure to review the  template  with the class.

Students should save the template to their personal directory first, and then follow the directions on each slide. 
Click here to find directions that help younger students save templates to their directories. 

Students can then save their work and print it out to make small books.