Return-Path: <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id iAK3ZF129425; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 22:35:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 22:35:15 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <F258139F-3AA4-11D9-B497-00039381D39E@comcast.net> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: David Rosen <djrosen@comcast.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-fobasics@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FOBASICS:1182] Re: Math web sites and Intuitive Multiplication Tables Program X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.553) Content-Type: text/plain; delsp=yes; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 5541 Lines: 185 Hi Nick, Davidson's Math Blaster, an interactive game format for learning number facts, has been around for nearly twenty years and I think does what you want quite well. It's commercial software but not expensive. Although it was designed for kids many adults like it, too. Soccer Shootout (see below) is a free Web site which may address this need. Funbrain has other useful parts of its web site, too. Other good math Web sites, some of which get at the very basic levels, include: AAA MAT: Division * http://www.aaamath.com/B/div.htm A+ Math An interactive Math Website for students. It includes games, flashcards, puzzles and worksheets. * http://www.aplusmath.com/ Discovery.com: Webmath * http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/webmath/ Funbrain Math Games Basic number skills practice in online game format * http://www.funbrain.com/numbers.html GED 2002 Math Lessons Pennsylvania GED teachers developed these lesson plans as part of a GED 2002 online course. * http://www.wbtc.ciu10.com/eclass/GEDresourceweb/math.htm GED Math Formulas * http://cite.telecampus.com/GED/math.html Guide to problem Solving! This is a six-lesson, online course in mathematics problems-solving. Lesson five focuses on the kinds of math problems which will be found on the GED test. * http://www.mnlincs.org/abeonline/solving/index.htm Learning about Charts and Graphs * http://www.fodoweb.com/erfora/readtext.asp?txtfile=communications/ charts.toc Math.com * http://www.math.com/index.aspx Mrs. Glosser's Math Goodies Free lessons on Understanding Percents, Number Theory, Circumference and Area of Circles, & Perimeter & Area of Polygons and more. * http://www.mathgoodies.com NIFL LINCS Special Collection on Numeracy "The purpose of this section (of the National Institute for Literacy LINCS special collection on Science and Numeracy) is to provide adult learners with good resources for learning about mathematics. There is an emphasis on the way math skills are used in the real world. The websites are arranged by the topics suggested in "A Framework for Adult Numeracy Students," based upon a study by the Adult Numeracy Network (ANN). These topics are similar to the subjects that will be emphasized in the 2002 Mathematics test for the Certificate of General Educational Development (GED). " * http://literacynet.org/sciencelincs/studentlearner-num.html Schoolwork Ugh! Lots of good math sites, including a ThinkQuest link which provides some interesting ways of learning math skills: The HEX Agency is an espionage game with the flavor of Mission Impossible. Ê * http://www.schoolwork.org/math.html Soccer Shootout Whole number and fraction practice in an online soccer game format, part of the Funbrain Math Games Web pages * http://www.funbrain.com/fractop/index.html The Math Forum at Drexel This includes "Ask Dr. Math." * http://mathforum.org/students/ Visual Fractions An interactive Website that helps a learner to identify, add, subtract, multiply and divide fractions using number lines and pie charts. * http://www.visualfractions.com/ Wisconsin Online Resource Center 38 math lessons, many focusing specifically on math and calulator skills needed for the GED (Choose ABE/ESL, then Math) and 11 financial literacy lessons such as ABE/ESL Best Buy Shopping, Calculating Monthly Expenses, and Learning About Your Earnings (choose ABE/ESL, then Financial; literacy) * http://www.wisc-online.com/index.htm David David J. Rosen On Friday, November 19, 2004, at 10:12 PM, Nixon S. Griffis wrote: > Hi List, > > While we are on basic math...I would be very interested in finding or > developing an intuitive and interactive math tables teaching program. > Times > tables should be one of the first screens run on Adult Ed. GED > students. Now > and then I have students who do not know their times tables. Like long > division, this is something they just need to know without a > calculator. > This knowledge is necessary for multiplication and for finding common > denominators when students reach fractions. > Most of these students need me to drill them until I can be secure > enough > to check them off my "Student Needs" sheet. A student directed computer > program seems a good solution here. I imagine a program that acts like > an > assessment at first to see which parts of the multiplication tables are > missing from the students memory. The ideal program would start from > there > and in an incremental process bring each individual student up through > their > tables. The program would return to missed products and periodically > reintroduce mastered answers in a way that would best reinforce > memorization. I have found in drilling my students that there seems to > be an > ideal pattern of asking students their multiplication tables. It has > to do > with reinforcing their correct answers and reintroducing missed answers > until they start getting them right. This must be done gradiently so > as to > best allow the student to feel they are winning and so as not to > overwhelm > them. > Has anyone seen anything like this already out there? Has anyone seen > any > research on how to best setup the repetitive pattern of questions in > this > type of drill scenario to optimize memorization of something like > multiplication tables? > > Nick Griffis > Adult Education > Inlet Grove H.S. > Riviera Beach, > Florida 33480 > 561-882-9967 > >
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