Webquests

Presenter: Jimbo Lamb Annville-Cleona jlamb@acschools.org

http://www.acschools.org/helpfulwebsites/patternswebquest/patternsintro.html

This activity was used with remedial math students to look at patterns by solving and play games.
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Tasks – Related to several of the most common computer games student currently play.

1. Towers of Hanoi was the first manipulative to move discs from one peg to the other building upon the bigger disc below trying to complete the game in the least amount of moves.

2. Circle Zero – Develop a pattern to move numbers into circles to get the problem to equal zero and look at the patter. This gets students to look for patterns.

3. Peg Puzzle – Student move the objects but can’t jump the same color as they work their way up to 8 pegs. Again, students are looking for the pattern to solve the problems.

4. Master Mind – Start with two colors – Student looks at the pattern and build there way to a solution by adding piece by piece.

5. Coin problem – They have to figure out the counterfeit coin by weighing them. students work to figure out the best way of solving the problems?

6. Sticker Switch – Similar to “Let’s Make a Deal. Deals with probability.

7. Fill and Pour - Student’s figure out a way to move liquid from one cylinders to another as they look for a pattern.

Evaluation – Use the rubric as students develop a presentation on two of the manipulates – working in pairs – usually takes about 8 days to complete the WebQuest and another 3 or 4 days to create and share the presentations.

How they present is up to students with teacher directions. Power Point, Podcasts, etc.

[|Sample General Math WebQuest]: This webquest is was created for a new program being offered to "at risk" 9th graders at Manheim Central, Donegal, and E-town school districts. The program is a project based integrated program for Math, Science, and Language Arts. The topics in this webquest include Pythagorean Theorem, reading a ruler, proportions, surface area, and volume.