QR Codes and Candy Store Math

Mrs. McConnell's second grade class has been working on a project to strengthen math skills in a real world scenario, and they are using technology to help them.  Each student's mission was to design a piece of candy, decide its price, and write a detailed description of it.  The students then took their written descriptions and created a video advertisement about their candy in an effort to persuade fellow students to buy it.  Each video was attached to a QR code so kids could quickly scan each one and watch the student created commercials easily.  The next phase of the project will consist of giving each student ninety-nine cents to purchase two pieces of their favorite candy.  They will use math skills to decide which two favorites they can purchase with the budget they have been given. This project not only incorporated many higher order thinking skills, but allowed them to learn lots of technology skills along the way.  The students loved this "sweet" project!

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