Week 6 - "There's an app for that"

    We live in a great time! Resources are available by the click of a button. We are able to find many free resources, and even those that we pay for are usually between $1-$5. Apps help make learning fun, and help us to assign activities to students at different levels - whether we are providing enrichment activities to gifted students, or remedial activities to students needing extra practice.

    

    Working in special education means that I spend a lot of time re-teaching, and giving remedial activities to students. In my search, I found 4 apps that I think every math inclusion teacher should know about. The first is an application to be used by the teacher; the last three can be used by students.

11)      The Percentally app is great for inclusion teachers. It allows you to enter education and behavior goals and tally to track progress of each goal. The app converts the tally measures into a percentage. This is great for tracking all of those measurable goals from IEPs.  I also believe tracking through the app could be more confidential than many of the techniques that are currently used.

22)      Fractions and Decimals can be a little scary to everyone. Extra practice is needed in this area on a regular basis for many of my students. The Fractions & Decimals – Foundational App (by Mind4Learning, Inc.) presents a 3 stage process to increase math levels in this area. Students use drill and practice activities to increase understanding of fractions and decimals.

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33)      For more practice in several topic areas of math, students may use MATH!!! By Math Pentagon. Students can pick subject areas from a list that includes areas such as Algebra, Geometry and Proportions. Students are given practice problems to work out. The app also allows teacher to schedule sessions for students and allows a teacher to view the work done by each student.

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44)      Factor Race by NRCC Games allows students to practice factoring as they play a racing game. Each question that is factored correctly moves the student closer to the finish line. There are multiple levels that include both binomial and trinomial factoring.