Recently, as I was reading through some Tweets, I happened upon Kristen Windeen's blog post, where she highlights how she's using Twitter to enhance her math classes. She has great examples! I was so impressed with what they were doing and intrigued by the app they were using.
It's $1.99 in the app store, $.99 if you purchase more than 20 from the Volume Purchase Store, and is only compatible with the iPad. I purchased this app for all the iPads on our campus, and the First Grade mathematicians are loving this new tool!
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| A screen shot of student thinking as they skip counted by 10, starting at 4. |
Students can use different colors to highlight, check, circle, box, cover or cross out numbers. There is even a feature that will read the numbers that students touch. This math manipulative app is my favorite type of app! It allows students to make their thinking visible and can bring number patterns to life!
The first project we used Hands On Math: Hundreds Chart for was to show skip counting by ten, starting at a number between 1 and 9. After students had some time to build number patterns, they took screen shots and used the Educreations app to add an explanation of their thinking to the picture! How cool right?!
I love the way that using these two apps together allows students to make their thinking visible to others. Instead of just skip counting, they are able to explain what they thought about, and show the pattern.
Here are a few of our examples:
Hundreds Chart is an excellent tool for so many math concepts - composing & decomposing numbers, showing patterns, playing missing numbers and much more!
What will you do with it in your classroom?
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ReplyDeleteCool - looks like a neat Android app! Thanks for sharing!
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