abc Find and See - Decipher the Olympiads

If you’ve just downloaded the new Smart Notebook 11 software, you may want to take a look at a new Notebook activity called abc Find and See: Decipher the Olympiads that reinforces mean, median, and mode. This activity, created by abcteach.com, is available for free download on the Smart Exchange.

What’s special about this activity is that it utilizes three new features of Notebook 11: the Embedded Web-browser, the Activity Builder, and the built-in Audio Recorder. (Since these features are only available in the new version, you must use Notebook 11 for the activity to function as intended.)

The quality and creativity of this Notebook activity is unparalleled. It contains a review and practice section, three Olympiads to decipher (nine word problems), and three fun pages on the Olympiads. Two of the Olympiad pages provide additional activities that utilize the Embedded Web-browser and the practice pages utilize the Activity Builder Add-on to provide feedback that includes both animation and audio.

To use this activity, students need to FIND the correct Nation, City, and Year of a specific Olympiad. If they can decipher the Olympiad, they are taken to a page with some fun facts about that specific Olympiad. In order for the students to find the correct Nation, City, and Year of the given Olympiad, they have to solve word problems for the mean, median, and mode. If they solve a word problem correctly, the Nation, City, or Year will be revealed to them so they can decipher the Olympiad and SEE the fun fact page for that Olympiad.

Here are some sample pages from abc Find and See – Decipher the Olympiads

You can download this activity for free on the Smart Exchange.

If you really like this activity, abcteach.com has an extended version of abc Find and See: Decipher the Olympiads on their Member Site that includes eight (instead of three) Olympiads to decipher and 24 word problems. The extended version is compatible with ALL prior versions of Notebook. I should also mention that abcteach.com has a huge collection of quality Notebook files in their Member area including additional abc Find and See activities.

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