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Math, Technology and UDL: Closing the Achievement Gap
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Creating new learning environments in math by applying UDL principles may just close the achievement gap in the US!
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Kathleen McClaskey
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Get Solving Equations on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
Kathleen McClaskey's insight:
For Ages 9-14, Solving Equations by Brainingcamp
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Get Thinking Blocks Addition on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
Kathleen McClaskey's insight:
Check out this new app that helps learners understand how to solve word problems in addition and subtraction. This app is free with other Thinking Blocks apps for ratios, multiplication, and fractions for a limited time. Please provide a rating if you use them!
Alyssa Formisano's curator insight,
October 18, 2014 3:21 PM
This is a great app for kids to use to help them practice addition and subtraction!
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Each app for Grades 1-5 are comprehensive with virtually infinite number of questions covering wide range of topics. All the content is aligned to common core standards.
These apps are used to differentiate math instruction and assigned practice. What you may like so much about this app is the variety of concepts that you are able to individualize. For example, if a student needs additional work on the concept of time, then you can setup the app to only give questions related to time. Questions first appear simple, but then become more challenging as questions are answered correctly. If you prefer, Splash Math will send you a weekly update indicating the progress of each student.
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Kathleen McClaskey's insight:
A mom developed this math to help her son who is dysgraphic and dyslexic have a tool where he could set up math problems on virtual graph paper. She has shared this app for free and is leveling the playing field for the thousands of learners who struggle with making math legible.
Mod Math Specifics:
> Provide students with a virtual piece of graph paper, where they can set up math problems in a format that’s easily legible.
> Allow students to do basic math problem solving, including addition, subtraction, multiplication and division as well as fractions and equations, all without ever picking up a pencil.
> Print out the work pages to turn it at school, or e-mail them directly to the teacher.
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Get Visual Algebra Puzzles on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
Kathleen McClaskey's insight:
Visual Algebraic Puzzles is another incredible math app from Colleen King that is a companion to Shuttle Mission Math!
Melissa Marshall's curator insight,
December 8, 2013 10:45 PM
This looks like an excellent little drill-and-practise app for algebra skills.
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Get Thinking Blocks Fractions on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
Kathleen McClaskey's insight:
From the developer of Math Playground and Thinking Blocks, Colleen King has designed the Thinking Blocks Fractions App to help all learners with word problems involving fractions. Get it while it is free and please offer a rating.
Also check out the other Thinking Blocks Apps for ratios, multiplication and addition. All free for now!
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One of the first studies on a math app was conducted by USC Professor Michelle Riconscente on Motion Math. The results indicated that game play can boost kids’ confidence in and enthusiasm for academic subject matter. Here is the research design and some of the findings.
"The study evaluated whether playing Motion Math led to increases in children’s fractions knowledge and attitudes. Over 120 participants played the game for 20 minutes daily for five days, for a total of 1 hour and forty minutes of game play. Among the main findings were that fractions knowledge increased an average of 15%, and participants gained confidence in their fractions ability and reported liking fractions more after playing the game.
With hundreds of educational iPad apps on the market, it is important to know whether they help children learn, and whether iPad apps like Motion Math also contribute to children’s positive attitudes toward academic subject matter. Though much more research is needed to test learning apps, and to discover ways to use them most effectively with a broad range of learners, this study marks an important step toward testing educational technologies with stringent research designs.
In less than two hours of game play distributed over five days, the app shifted the needle on participants’ understanding of a topic that has long eluded most learners."
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"Now you can do math without holding a pencil. Panther Math Paper app integrated the principle of Universal Design into an elegant interface that allows people to work independently on "digital paper". Math Paper offers the foundations to learn simple arithmetic, and the power to do complicated equations."