Design a Maze
Using the line tool students can create mazes on the computer to challenge their friends.  One way to approach creating the maze is to draw the correct route from the beginning to the end first, label the starting point and ending point, and then add lots of dead ends.  When finished, they can be printed out.

More Fraction Projects
Students can use the rectangle and oval tools in Paint to make several circles, squares, and rectangles.  Then have students divide the shapes into halves, thirds, and fourths, and color sections to represent a fraction.  For example, students divide a rectangle into fourths, and shade three-fourths of the rectangle by using the paint can to pour paint into the sections to equal that fraction.

Measuring Lines
Have student use the line tool to make five lines of different lengths on the screen.  Then have students print out these lines and use their rulers to measure the length of each one.  They can trade with a partner to check the answers.

Writing Numbers
Give students a series of numbers written in words.  Ask them to type the digits for three hundred seventy-six in the computer.  This activity can be done in reverse by giving a series of digits and asking students to type the words for each number.

Create a Tangram
Have students use the line tool to create their won tangrams.  They can print and cut out the pictures an use them to make tangram picture cards.

Round ‘Em Up
Give students a series of numbers to round up to the nearest ten or hundred.  The correct answers can be entered into the computer using the text tool.

Develop A Calendar
Use Publisher to allow students to create their own calendars adding clipart to holidays and special events.  The calendars can be used for math story problems such as “How many days until…”

Write Word Problems
Students can write word problems and illustrate them using Paint.  They can give their word problems to other students to solve or they can be emailed to another class to solve.

Excel Graphs
Several types of graphs can be created using Excel’s graph wizard.  Students can conduct surveys to gather data and input the data into a spreadsheet then use the graph wizard to create a bar, line, pie, or other type of graph.  Some survey suggestions are:  favorite fruit, favorite ice cream flavor, shoe size, birthday month, sports teams, other graph suggestions include:  ancestry bar graph, calorie counting, line graph of grades, monthly temperature, etc.

Take the Quiz
Before going to the computer, students create a word problem that focuses on the math application your class has been studying.  At the computer students use PowerPoint to enhance problem-solving in math.  The slides should be organized as follows: Slide 1 title, slide 2 introduce the problem, slide 3 demonstrate how the problem can be solved with 4 choices of answers.  Each choice should have an Action Setting button to link the user to a slide that indicates if the answer is correct or incorrect and why.  Slide 4 correct answer slide, slide 5 incorrect answer slide which also has a Action Setting button for user to try again. (Sounds and animations can also be added, but these should be limited.)

Measure Your Smile
Students use metric measurement to determine the length of each student’s smile in the student’s group.  Using the Excel spreadsheet students will create graphs using the data following these directions:
1. Open Excel. Click inside Column 1 A and type Names.  Press enter and then type each student’s name in the group pressing enter each time.
2. Click inside Column 1 B and type Length.  Press enter and then type the length of each student’s smile pressing enter each time.
3. Highlight all the data in column 1 and 2.
4. Click the chart wizard tool in the top toolbar.
5. Select column graph, choose the style of column graph you desire, and select next.  Click next again.
6. Click the Title Tab and type in the Title of your graph, Metric Length of Smiles Group 1
7. You do not need to supply anything for Category X axis, but in Category Y type Centimeters.
8. Click the Data Label tab and click the circle for Show Value.
9. Click Next and select the circle for as object in sheet 1. Then click Finish to produce your graph.
 

Geometric Figures
This activity will help students become familiar with geometric figures.  Before going to the computer, students will use the PowerPoint story board (see appendix) to develop a 10-slide presentation, which illustrates geometric shapes.  The following are suggestions for the slide presentation:  Slide 1 (title slide), Slide 2 (introduce quadrilateral figures), Slides 3-8 (draw the 5 quadrilateral figures, giving names and explanations) Slide 9 (introduce triangle), Slide 10 (drawing, name, and explanation of the triangle.

Long Division Show
Each group should choose a long division problem from their math book to create a PowerPoint presentation that will illustrate how it is solved.  One problem could result in five or more slides.  Each student in the group solves the problem illustrating the long division steps using the Auto Shapes…Line…Scribble tool in PowerPoint.  Each slide should include text that explains the process.  Students then present their presentation and explain it to the remainder of the class.
 
 

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