Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - HeavyLifters Network Ltd. is pleased to announce the availability of MathTappers: Find Sums. Mathematics educators Tim Pelton and Leslee Francis-Pelton from the University of Victoria have designed this free app to help students master their basic addition and subtraction facts.
MathTappers: Find Sums is a unique app that combines a simple game with helpful models that support children as they make sense of the math that they are learning. “Find Sums isn’t a flashy, whiz-bang game, nor is it a dull series of flashcards, rather it is a pleasant low-stress game that encourages students to continually challenge themselves until they become proficient.” says Tim Pelton.
The designers have used tools that teachers often use in the classroom to help children visualize relationships between numbers (e.g., ten-frames & hundred-frames) and master their fact families (practicing groups of facts together). “Addition and subtraction are fundamentally linked – but unless you use models like these to support children in seeing the connections directly, they may struggle to learn their basic facts or to develop effective mental math skills”, says Leslee Francis Pelton.
Teachers might use MathTappers: Find Sums first to support class discussions on important concepts and effective strategies and then to provide opportunities for individualized learning and remediation activities. “Even a single shared iPod Touch can be enough to make this type of tool useful in the classroom.”


Minimun Requirements:
iPhone or iPod touch OS 3.0 or later
Pricing and Availability: Free - Available worldwide exclusively through the App Store.
Links:
HeavyLifters: http://www.heavylifters.com/
Website: www.mathtappers.com
HeavyLifters creates leading-edge, interactive applications for Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Copyright (C) 2010 HeavyLifters. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iTunes, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.
Tim Pelton
Associate Professor,
Faculty of Education,
University of Victoria
Canada
tpelton@uvic.ca
Doug Pelton, CEO
HeavyLifters Network Ltd.
doug@dougpelton.com
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