Through the use of this activity, students will learn basic number facts. Specifically, students will develop their counting and addition skills. Students use pictures on a grid to determine how many of the object there are on the grid, or how many spaces on the grid are empty. If the student answers the question correctly a happy face appears on the screen. A score of how many they answered correctly is kept at the side. If a question is answered incorrectly, it does not count against them and they have the chance to answer the question again. There are a total of four different activities in this Applet. In the other activities, students must determine how many circles it will take to fill the grid, or place the appropriate amount of circles in the grid. The fourth activity has students using the cirlcles and the grid to represent addition problems. Students are able to easily manipulate the pieces on the screen. The students can continue with the game for as long as they would like to because there is no end.
I believe that this applet is a great way for younger students to become comfortable with counting and addition in an interactive and visual way. This applet quality information regarding directions. This applet would be most beneficial for beginner to intermediate learners. The applet did provide problems that were more challenging, therefore not promoting much growth in math content and process knowledge. This applet would be useful for integration in a beginning level lesson about addition and counting. This applet would be useful for teachers to use as supplementary activities in the classroom. Students could use this applet at school during free time, or at home for additional practice. This applet does not provide the teacher with information regarding how well the student did completing the problems. That does not allow the teacher to assess how well students understand the concept from this applet.
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