Playing Guess My Number via Google Docs

This week, we collaborated with our second grade learning friends at Old Settlers Elementary in Mrs. Ferguson's class.  Mrs. Ferguson and I have been friends for several years and we get together every three weeks to share ideas and bounce ideas around.  She is an important part of my PLN (personal learning network.)  Even though we do not teach at the same school, we text, email, or talk at least a couple times a week to collaborate along with another of our friend's Mrs. Curry at Southridge Elementary.

Both of our classes enjoy playing the math learning activity Guess My Number and we were looking for a quick low tech way for us to collaborate and bring our classrooms together.  This activity is part of our classroom routine through our Investigations curriculum.  We decided to utilize Google docs to play the game. We also thought this would also be a great way to review different types of sentences and proper punctuation.  

First Mrs. Ferguson's class picked a number between 1-100.  We could ask them questions (we had to remember to put a question mark after them.) to try to guess their number.  We have been learning strategies when we play this game to help us eliminate a lot of numbers in each turn.  It was great to see the kids applying these strategies.  Students would huddle in groups.  Each group would have a turn to share out a response and help me compose the the response (including proper punctuation.)  While we played, we had student helpers keeping track of our what we discovered on our class number line located at the front of our room.  We love this game, but being able to play it with another class made it even more exciting!

You can check out our game on Google docs.  Below are pictures of our classes while we were playing.  

Mrs. Ferguson's class

Mrs. Haney's class

We are looking forward to our next collaborative activity with our learning friends!