vBlocks
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Application Description
This is an in-classroom use iPad app for educational use for the elementary school grade children. With this app, teachers can help their students build patterning skills. Research has shown that this type of pattern building capability is very useful in the development of critical thinking in young children. This all will make a good part of curriculum units aimed at developing critical thinking in children.
More information on "Make Pattern" activity
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Building patterns is a research-‐supported tool to help students achieve higher success with algebraic reasoning. This app helps students create several different patterns at very early ages starting in pre-‐K and Kindergarten. Teachers should encourage students to build patterns with the “Make Patterns” option. During early lessons, students should be guided to build ABAB, AABAAB, and ABBABB patterns. As the students build confidence a third color can be introduced and ABCABC, ABBCABBC, ... patterns can be created. Also, hopscotch type patterns can be constructed as the app allows for work on vertical and horizontal axis. This app has potential to replace the expensive manipulatives and become an indispensible pedagogical toolkit in itself. Several schools and districts could benefit from applications supported by the making patterns app. In addition, the “Make Patterns” activity will also facilitate a conversation of base ten, counting by fives and counting by tens.
More information on "Make Towers" activity
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The “Make Towers” activity builds on the “Make Patterns” activity and can be extended to students in Grades 1 – 12. This activity is another research-‐based problem-‐solving task that can be used to teach students about combinatorial tasks. Students can build towers three, four or five tall, using two or three colors and provide justifications for how they know they have found all possible towers. Another interesting task is building all towers four tall with three colors where the resulting towers must contain at least one of each color. The building towers activity is isomorphic (similar in mathematical structure) to several combinatorial tasks and can be used to map students’ understanding of several related tasks like counting the number of pizzas possible with a certain number of toppings, etc. This app can be used for very sophisticated counting techniques and can aid in students’ building of complex combinatorial ideas related to the Pascal’s identities, etc.
More information on "Arithmetic using vRods" activity
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This activity provides teachers with the invaluable tool of Cuisenaire Rods like Manipulatives which help students understand and learn the basic concept behind fractions, addition, subtraction and other arithmetic.
More information on "Make Pattern" activity
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Building patterns is a research-‐supported tool to help students achieve higher success with algebraic reasoning. This app helps students create several different patterns at very early ages starting in pre-‐K and Kindergarten. Teachers should encourage students to build patterns with the “Make Patterns” option. During early lessons, students should be guided to build ABAB, AABAAB, and ABBABB patterns. As the students build confidence a third color can be introduced and ABCABC, ABBCABBC, ... patterns can be created. Also, hopscotch type patterns can be constructed as the app allows for work on vertical and horizontal axis. This app has potential to replace the expensive manipulatives and become an indispensible pedagogical toolkit in itself. Several schools and districts could benefit from applications supported by the making patterns app. In addition, the “Make Patterns” activity will also facilitate a conversation of base ten, counting by fives and counting by tens.
More information on "Make Towers" activity
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The “Make Towers” activity builds on the “Make Patterns” activity and can be extended to students in Grades 1 – 12. This activity is another research-‐based problem-‐solving task that can be used to teach students about combinatorial tasks. Students can build towers three, four or five tall, using two or three colors and provide justifications for how they know they have found all possible towers. Another interesting task is building all towers four tall with three colors where the resulting towers must contain at least one of each color. The building towers activity is isomorphic (similar in mathematical structure) to several combinatorial tasks and can be used to map students’ understanding of several related tasks like counting the number of pizzas possible with a certain number of toppings, etc. This app can be used for very sophisticated counting techniques and can aid in students’ building of complex combinatorial ideas related to the Pascal’s identities, etc.
More information on "Arithmetic using vRods" activity
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This activity provides teachers with the invaluable tool of Cuisenaire Rods like Manipulatives which help students understand and learn the basic concept behind fractions, addition, subtraction and other arithmetic.
Requirements
Your mobile device must have at least 663.51 KB of space to download and install vBlocks app. vBlocks was updated to a new version. Purchase this version for $2.99
If you have any problems with installation or in-app purchase, found bugs, questions, comments about this application, you can visit the official website of Walia Technologies LLC Anoop Ahluwalia at http://hungrycats.us.
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