Curator: Aimee Muscoe
Name & Link to Tech Tool or Tool homepage: Pearl Diver
Brief Description of Tech Tool: Students must locate given numbers on a number line, including fractions and decimals. When students correctly locate where the number should go on the number line the diver dives for a pearl and for every pearl they collect they earn points.
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 placing numbers including fractions, decimals, and negative numbers on a number line.
1. Learning Activity Types
-practicing for fluency
2. What mathematics is being learned?
NCTM Standards
-Numbers & Operations -Understanding numbers, ways of representing numbers, and number systems.
Proficiency Strands
How is the mathematics represented?
The mathematics is represented in a virtual manipulative. The advantage of this tech tool is that the level of difficulty increases as students continue to answer correctly.
4. What role does technology play?
The technology allows students to easily work with different number lines and it gives students instant feedback about their answers.
Affordances of Technology for Supporting Learning
Students can work independently or in small groups to play this game.
6. What do teachers and learners need to know?
Students need to know how to read a number line and how to read decimals and fractions. The game is simple to play and does not require special technological knowledge.
Name & Link to Tech Tool or Tool homepage: Pearl Diver
Brief Description of Tech Tool: Students must locate given numbers on a number line, including fractions and decimals. When students correctly locate where the number should go on the number line the diver dives for a pearl and for every pearl they collect they earn points.
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 placing numbers including fractions, decimals, and negative numbers on a number line.
1. Learning Activity Types
-practicing for fluency
2. What mathematics is being learned?
NCTM Standards
-Numbers & Operations -Understanding numbers, ways of representing numbers, and number systems.
Proficiency Strands
- Strategic competence- Students must think logically about the number line and the given number to correctly dive for the pearl
How is the mathematics represented?
The mathematics is represented in a virtual manipulative. The advantage of this tech tool is that the level of difficulty increases as students continue to answer correctly.
4. What role does technology play?
The technology allows students to easily work with different number lines and it gives students instant feedback about their answers.
Affordances of Technology for Supporting Learning
- Computing & Automating -
- Representing Ideas & Thinking - Numbers are represented in different ways (fractions, decimals, whole numbers) and different number lines are used.
- Accessing Information -
- Communicating & Collaborating -
- Capturing & Creating -
Students can work independently or in small groups to play this game.
6. What do teachers and learners need to know?
Students need to know how to read a number line and how to read decimals and fractions. The game is simple to play and does not require special technological knowledge.