Curator: Aimee Muscoe
Name & Link to Tech Tool or Tool homepage: Fruit Shoot
Brief Description of Tech Tool: Students must add fractions and click on fruit with the corresponding answer.
Technical & Cost considerations: This is a free game. It requires the use of Adobe Flash Player and it could be used with a smart board.
Evaluation
Description of Learning Activity:
Students can practice adding fraction with like or unlike denominators. There are more advanced levels that also require students to simplify their answers. Students choose the level (like or unlike denominators) before they begin playing, so the game can be differentiated for student needs. There is also a timed and relaxed version, and students can choose to have the fruit move fast or slow across the screen. So students who do not do well in timed situations can still play and be successful in this game.
1. Learning Activity Types
-practicing for fluency
2. What mathematics is being learned?
NCTM Standards
-Number and Operations
-compute fluently
Proficiency Strands
How is the mathematics represented?
The math is represented with a virtual manipulative. The advantages of this tool are that are many options to choose from to create an individual and appropriate experience for each student.
4. What role does technology play?
The technology allows students to practice adding fractions while playing an engaging game. Students also get immediate feedback about their answers and progress.
Affordances of Technology for Supporting Learning
5. How does the technology fit or interact with the social context of learning?
This is meant to be an individual game, but if there were a lack of computers students could work together to solve the problems or take turns.
6. What do teachers and learners need to know?
Students need to know how to add fractions. For the more advanced levels students also need to know how to simplify fractions. The game does not require and special technological knowledge to play.
Name & Link to Tech Tool or Tool homepage: Fruit Shoot
Brief Description of Tech Tool: Students must add fractions and click on fruit with the corresponding answer.
Technical & Cost considerations: This is a free game. It requires the use of Adobe Flash Player and it could be used with a smart board.
Evaluation
Description of Learning Activity:
Students can practice adding fraction with like or unlike denominators. There are more advanced levels that also require students to simplify their answers. Students choose the level (like or unlike denominators) before they begin playing, so the game can be differentiated for student needs. There is also a timed and relaxed version, and students can choose to have the fruit move fast or slow across the screen. So students who do not do well in timed situations can still play and be successful in this game.
1. Learning Activity Types
-practicing for fluency
2. What mathematics is being learned?
NCTM Standards
-Number and Operations
-compute fluently
Proficiency Strands
- Procedural fluency- students can practice how to add fractions with both like and unlike denominators
How is the mathematics represented?
The math is represented with a virtual manipulative. The advantages of this tool are that are many options to choose from to create an individual and appropriate experience for each student.
4. What role does technology play?
The technology allows students to practice adding fractions while playing an engaging game. Students also get immediate feedback about their answers and progress.
Affordances of Technology for Supporting Learning
- Computing & Automating - students are given immediate feedback about whether or not they answered correctly
- Representing Ideas & Thinking -
- Accessing Information -
- Communicating & Collaborating -
- Capturing & Creating -
5. How does the technology fit or interact with the social context of learning?
This is meant to be an individual game, but if there were a lack of computers students could work together to solve the problems or take turns.
6. What do teachers and learners need to know?
Students need to know how to add fractions. For the more advanced levels students also need to know how to simplify fractions. The game does not require and special technological knowledge to play.