Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Digital Manipulatives

Technology Tip of the Week: Digital Manipulatives

Clarity Innovations (The Math Learning Center) has created a suite of apps and web applications that students could use to demonstrate and explain their knowledge of math concepts.  Teachers could use these apps for small group and whole group modeling. 

iPad and Web Apps of the Week: Math Learning Center Apps


App Store Links:


Web App Links:


Description:
Geoboard

Geoboard is a tool for exploring a variety of mathematical topics introduced in grades K-8. Learners stretch bands around pegs to form line segments and polygons and make discoveries about perimeter, area, angles, fractions, and more.








Math Vocabulary Cards

Math Vocabulary Cards help students deepen their conceptual understanding of key terms in mathematics. Each card features three sections: a math term, a representative example or model, and a concise definition.









Money Pieces


Money Pieces help students visualize and understand money values and relationships. Two versions of coins and bills are provided: virtual currency pieces that replicate the appearance and relative size of U.S. coins and the dollar bill, and area money pieces.


Number Frames

Number Frames help students structure numbers to five, ten, twenty, and one hundred. Students use the frames to count, represent, compare, and compute with numbers in a particular range.







Number Line

Number Line helps students develop a deeper understanding of place value while building their computation skills with multi-digit numbers. Students use the pieces to represent multi-digit numbers, regroup, add, subtract, multiply, and divide.





Number Pieces Basic


Number Pieces Basic is a simplified version of the Number Pieces app, designed for use with primary students. It has fewer features, putting greater focus on place value, counting, addition, and subtraction.





Number Pieces

Number Pieces helps students develop a deeper understanding of place value while building their computation skills with multi-digit numbers. Students use the number pieces to represent multi-digit numbers, regroup, add, subtract, multiply, and divide. 






Number Rack


Number Rack facilitates the natural development of children’s number sense. Rows of moveable, colored beads encourage learners to think in groups of fives and tens, helping them to explore and discover a variety of addition and subtraction strategies.




Pattern Shapes

Students use Pattern Shapes to explore geometry and fractions, creating their own designs, or filling in outlines. As they work with the shapes students think about angles, investigate symmetry, and compose and decompose larger shapes.





Integration Ideas:

Students could use these apps with a laptop or iPad to explain their knowledge of the math concept. Teachers can use these apps to model and demonstrate the math concept in whole group or small group instruction.  The teacher could use their desktop computer and projector or an iPad.  The web apps would work great on a Smartboard.  A teacher could also project their Project Innovate iPad using Reflector 2.  The directions for installing Reflector 2 are located in our Technology Knowledge Base, Installing Reflector 2.
All app descriptions and images are from The Math Learning Center.  

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