Math 371 Technology for STEM Educators

This week in Math 371, we spent our time revamping the app rubric survey made by the class a few years ago. We felt the old survey was a little vague and not all the questions applied to the specific type of app we might be reviewing. Our new survey includes a lot more branching than the original, since we wanted to make sure we were asking relevant question based on the kind of app. We now have separate sets of questions for apps that are games, resources or tools. While we easily agreed on the types of questions we wanted to ask, we had a tougher time wording our questions. We wanted to make sure our questions were worded as precisely as possible to avoid any confusion. This led to some lengthy discussion, but we finally created an outline of all the questions we want in our survey. Dr. Vestal is working on putting all of our questions into QuestionPro, and the only thing left for us to do is to decide how we want to score and weight each question. I can’t wait to see our final surv...

The assignment in Math 371 last week was for each student to review three iPad apps.  Below is a summary of each review, including the grade level, the function of the app, and whether or not the student would use it in his/her classroom.  One of their best comments was that they feel like the online iPad app rubric that the Math 371 class created 2 years ago needs to be modified.  So that is their homework for next week.  Stay tuned... Chad Blackwelder IQ Gym middle school to high school       This app was made to improve your mental math skills for the user. There are three main categories add/subtract, multiply and division, with three subcategories below each: Challenge, Survival, and time attack. It gets increasingly harder as you work through the levels, to a maximum of level 99 for each subcategory. No real goal other than to improve mental math.      I do not think I would use this app in the classroom. This...