Engagement

The wonderful thing about good technology and good software is that when the children engage with it, they are indeed fully engaged.   In math in particular, we have used many wonderful sites that motivate the children to really push themselves.  It appears as a game, but they are learning through it.  They manipulate shapes,  play with numbers, learn their multiplication facts,  compare fractions, and many other useful activities.  What once was done with actual objects can now be done virtually.  Yet the children get the same benefit from  the activity.   Below is the Primary Math Page that I created throughout the year.  I also will have direct links to a few of the sites that I found most productive.  One of the things that stands out to me with the use of technology is that a child who has a very hard time focusing in the "real" world, will fully engage in a virtual world.  It is almost an ideal medium for the attention deficit or even autistic child.  


Primary Math Page

Math Magician

Batters Up Baseball

Rainforest Maths

The Wonderful Function Machine