How to Use the Smart Board to Teach Fifth Grade Algebra Skills
A smart board, also known as an electronic or interactive whiteboard, allows you to use a computer and a projector to teach in a classroom setting. You can project an image from the computer onto the board, allowing students to draw on it and make notes or complete lessons. The board can recognize the pens that come with the system. Afterward, you can save the notes written on the board to a computer file. Smart boards are a good tool for teaching fifth graders algebra, and you can incorporate a number of lessons into your teaching.
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Teach students to find common denominators and numerators using E-Lab's "Subtracting Unlike Fractions" and "Adding Unlike Fractions" activities. Have students fill in the common denominator for two unlike fractions in the activity, which will then prompt the student to type in the numerators for the fraction, and then find the difference.
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Help them multiply decimals and whole numbers with E-Lab's whiteboard activity. Ask your students for a whole number between 1 and 4, and write it in the box provided. Then ask the students for a decimal number between 0.01 and 0.99, and put that number in the appropriate box. The activity will automatically color in boxes on a 100-box graph to help the students visually figure out the answer.
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Use E-Lab's thousandths activity to help students locate thousandths on a number line. The activity will display an arrow pointing at a graph with notches numbered from 1 to 10. Have your class select the whole number closest to the arrow. The graph will then expand. Have the class select the tenth nearest to the arrow. The graph will expand again; this time have the class pick the nearest hundredth. They graph will expand a final time, allowing the class to pick the thousandth to which the arrow is pointing.
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Help the students understand percentages using another E-Lab whiteboard activity. Start the percentages activity and have the class determine what percent of the circle is colored in based on how many pieces it is divided into. Type that percentage into the box provided to see if they were right.
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