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The Impact of Pen and Touch Technology on EducationSupporting Special Needs Students in Drawing Mathematical Representations

The Impact of Pen and Touch Technology on Education: Supporting Special Needs Students in Drawing... [The INK-12: Interactive Ink Inscriptions in K-12 project, a collaboration between MIT and TERC, has been investigating the use of a pen-based wireless classroom interaction system in upper elementary math and science classes for the past 4 years [3]. This chapter reports on a study that investigated the ways in which a pen-based drawing tool could support 4th and 5th grade special needs students in learning multiplicative reasoning. The drawing tool is what we call a stamp, which enables students to draw an image, then duplicate the image to create a mathematical representation, e.g., four groups of six. We worked with a class of eight special needs students for 10 classroom sessions of between 45 minutes and an hour, using a structured sequence of multiplication and division problems. We identified several specific ways in which stamps helped the students gain more proficiency with multiplicative reasoning and based on pre- and post- assessments, saw evidence of their academic progress.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Impact of Pen and Touch Technology on EducationSupporting Special Needs Students in Drawing Mathematical Representations

Part of the Human–Computer Interaction Series Book Series
Editors: Hammond, Tracy; Valentine, Stephanie; Adler, Aaron; Payton, Mark
Rubin, Andee; Storeygard, Judy; Koile, Kimberle
The Impact of Pen and Touch Technology on Education — Jul 10, 2015
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
ISBN
978-3-319-15593-7
Pages
57 –66
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-15594-4_6
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Abstract

[The INK-12: Interactive Ink Inscriptions in K-12 project, a collaboration between MIT and TERC, has been investigating the use of a pen-based wireless classroom interaction system in upper elementary math and science classes for the past 4 years [3]. This chapter reports on a study that investigated the ways in which a pen-based drawing tool could support 4th and 5th grade special needs students in learning multiplicative reasoning. The drawing tool is what we call a stamp, which enables students to draw an image, then duplicate the image to create a mathematical representation, e.g., four groups of six. We worked with a class of eight special needs students for 10 classroom sessions of between 45 minutes and an hour, using a structured sequence of multiplication and division problems. We identified several specific ways in which stamps helped the students gain more proficiency with multiplicative reasoning and based on pre- and post- assessments, saw evidence of their academic progress.]

Published: Jul 10, 2015

Keywords: Limited English Proficiency; Division Problem; Drawing Tool; Fine Motor Control; Number Sentence

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