FREE Chrome Apps to Use with Your Students

Lego Builder is a great app and it has many mathematical uses. 

• You can have your students make arrays using Lego Builder.  Give them directions such as:  Create an array that has a product of 20.  They will use the Lego blocks to make an array.  Lego Builder has a feature where students can share their finished project with you, or they can take a screen shot and email their finished project for you to show understanding of the concept. 

• Another way to use Lego Builder is to have your students work with perimeter.  You can give your students a task of making a fence with a perimeter of 50 yards, and they would have to show 50 yards by creating their fence with legos.  When they were finished, they can share their projects the same way. 

• Students can also create buildings to show area and volume, based on a given task by their teacher.  

To have your students download this app, you can go to the Chrome Store and type in Lego Builder.  I would copy the link and share it with your students.  When they click, "Add to Chrome" the app will appear in their Chrome Browser under their waffle, or within the Chrome App Launcher if that is installed.   Here's what it looks like from the Chrome Web Store.

Geoboard, by the Math Learning

Center is a great app to use with

your students, and it has many different uses.

• Geoboard is an interactive geobard without the rubberband mess and accidents!  How can you go wrong?   You can have your students create different shapes with a different amount of sides, or even ask your students to make five different irregular hexagons. 

• Another way to use Geoboard would be to have your students find the perimeter or area by drawing a figure, similar to Lego Builder. 

• You can also have your students divide the square, or circle into equal amounts to work on fractions.

• Another nice feature about Geoboard, is that is has an annotate feature.  With this feature, students can color in parts of the fraction by shading, or even annotate problems or answers.  I don't believe their is a way to share their completed project, but you can have your students take a screen shot and send it to you to show their understanding.  Here's what it looks like from the Chrome Web Store.