Sunday, November 6, 2016

Kahoot in Maths

I absolutely love the way we are using Kahoot as our maintenance and practice. The children enjoy competitive mode which I might enable when reviewing a unit of work. However during our ongoing maintenance I give them more time for each question and I and turn off the points function. In this particular Kahoot we have been regularly referring to adding and subtracting using regrouping. The children are required to use a piece of paper to help work out the answers using their regrouping strategy. I am able to change the questions and answers regularly so they get new questions. When I turn off the points function I have noticed an increase in the way students try and work out using the time available to them. My particular Maths class continue to become proficient at using the Chromebooks to assist them in their learning. I also appreciate the function were I can download the results after each Kahoot. I have looked at results, found a group of children who might need extra practice and give them some time with my classroom Teacher Aid. Just having 15 minutes with the group was effective as when they played another Kahoot, with different questions but same strategy, the improvement was excellent.