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<\/p>\nAs an LST (Learning Support Team) teacher, our focus for this year has been on literacy and math. Math is a struggle for all of my students that I work with. In my current math group, I have six students that range from grades 3-7. These students have very little number sense and recently we have been working on single and double- digit multiplication in which they are having a very difficult time. By following the Gem approach, I am hoping students will be able to have a better understanding of the relationship between multiplication and division. In order to do this, I need to make sure that my students know all of their multiplication facts. I think that one digital simulation that could work well is the interactive website called PhET which stands for Physics Education Technology. When this simulation was first launched, it was aimed at physics but now it has expanded to include math and science (biology, chemistry, physics) and at different levels and grades. There is an interactive computer-based simulation titled \u2018Arithmetic\u2019 in which students can play a game with multiplication, division, and factoring. I think this would really help to enforce the concept and I think my learners would also have fun with this.<\/p>\n
In her article, \u2018New pedagogies on teaching science with computer simulations,\u2019 Khan (2011) states that \u201csome computer simulations are particularly valuable [\u2026] because they help students to visualize\u201d would allow students to be engaged, explore, and discover new math concepts and information that learners would find very beneficial in their learning.<\/p>\n
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This is an interactive multiplication simulation that students can play using Phet<\/p>\n