Peter Malcom, a fellow graduate student in the Instructional Technology program at UVA who needs to update his website, just sent me a working flash prototype of an estimation calculator. The estimation calculator provides students with scaffolded, visual feedback about estimating answers to addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division problems. The working prototype is below the …
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Free iPhone/iPod Touch Apps- Math
I need to ease back into blogging. It has been awhile since I posted anything (relevant or otherwise), and I feel a bit guilty. In an effort to post something somewhat new and quasi-worthwhile, I am including links to “educational” applications for iPhone and iPod Touch units that are currently free but will cost money …
Recording Smiles With Poll Everywhere
View Larger Map I have trudged back and forth between my apartment and my office for the past three days, a four mile walk that is a mixture of solitary reflection and, unbeknownst to me until today, psychological observation. As I huffed up one of the sidewalks that borders the UVA campus this morning, I …
The Dy/Dan iPhone App, part Deux
Too often individuals perceive mathematics as a set of isolated facts and procedures. Through curricular and everyday experiences, students should recognize and use connections among mathematical ideas. [It should include problem solving as a] means of engaging in a task for which the solution method is not known in advance. Students should have frequent opportunities …
iPhone: The Math Trail App
I built the prototype above in Flash with the hope of visually describing an iPhone application (app) that I see as potentially useful and educationally unique. It’s a bit different from the drill-and-kill educational apps that appear in iTunes.
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