The Rootstown fourth graders are building their own math fractions using Scratch 3.0. Released earlier this month, Scratch 3.0 builds from the original Scratch project designed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. Scratch 3.0 offers a programming language and online community for creating interactive stories, games, and animations. In addition to the computational thinking skills that are inherent in programming, the platform is designed to engage students in problem-solving, design thinking, communication, and collaboration. This morning the fourth graders learned advanced scripts and coding sequences within Scratch 3.0 that they will use to program their own fraction game to share with classmates.
