Chapter 5 Educational Applications to Teach Math Concepts, Skills and Problem Solving
In my two prior blogs we investigated how to meet the needs of automaticity, fluency, and the challenges of visual-spatial or motor control problems. Today we are going to address how to use technology to help students become problem solvers, that is taking the skills of understanding the concepts, using fact fluency and applying that knowledge to address higher level thinking, and problem solving - multi-step processes. To guide this investigation I will again be using the text pictured above, Assistive Technology in the Classroom (Dell, et. al pages 130- 134).
Below are 2 categories that will offer you assistance: Website Based & Authoring Applications
1) Websites for your Review, Investigation, and Play!
Read under the "About" tab to find out the computer hardware and operating system requirements. You can download a free trial version. Purchase prices range from $39.95 for a single license to $999 for a standard school license (and there are many options in between.
This website, maintained by the National Council of teachers of Mathematics is free :)
It offers lessons to present in class, and a variety of interactive manipulative activities.
2) Authoring Applications
If you would like to tailor the applications to meet your students' specific needs; and/or tailor a lesson to a core concept, you may want to investigate an authoring applications which allows you to go beyond what is offered "out of the box".
- Clicker 5 (Crick Software)
- Classroom Suite (Cambium Learning)
Resource:
Assistive Technology In the Classroom: Enhancing the School Experiences of Students with Disabilities, Second Edition 2012 by Amy G. Dell, Deborah A. Newton, Jerry G. Petroff, Pearson
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