Our 4th grade students, with Google Chromebooks in hand, moved up into Mr. Carney’s high school math classroom on Wednesday, January 29 to get a special lesson on coordinate pairs and graphing as part of their unit on geometry.
“We thought it would be a unique and exciting experience for our students to learn about the fundamentals of geometry from our high school math teacher, especially using the technology resources that he uses with his own students,” said 4th grade teacher Mrs. Hoover. “The students had so much fun!” She and 4th grade teacher Mr. Tardif were on hand to advise and assist the students as they used their Chromebooks during the lesson. Mr. Carney’s son, Colton, is also in Mr. Tardif’s class.
Mr. Carney began by having the students use graph paper to draw the x-axis and y-axis lines and then divide the paper into four quadrants. He gave described how to find the coordinate pairs of a given point placed on the graph and then had the students log into the Chromebooks and begin typing the coordinate pair for the given point.
Mrs. Hoover said the students soon learned how to arrive at the correct answer. Mr. Carney ended the lesson with having the students write their own coordinate pairs to form two eyes on a graph that already had a smile mouth showing.
