{"id":940,"date":"2008-01-10T14:33:59","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T06:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=940"},"modified":"2010-04-19T20:17:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T12:17:39","slug":"yet-another-computer-based-math-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/yet-another-computer-based-math-system-940","title":{"rendered":"Yet another computer-based math system?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The OCRegister's article <i>Irvine man has kids loving math<\/i> (the article has since disappeared, unfortunately) talks about the MIND Research Institute's <a href=\"http:\/\/mindresearch.net\/\">ST Math Games<\/a> program.<\/p>\n<p>The background to this one is interesting. The founder of the program, Matthew Peterson, did not do well in school himself due to a problem with dyslexia.<\/p>\n<p>His Flash based ST Math Games is largely 'language free' and aims at tweaking...<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>... spatial-temporal reasoning, the same reasoning used to learn music, to teach math concepts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The process encourages students to visualise mathematical concepts (like adding fractions, solving equations) before they ever try to solve math problems using language, numbers or symbols.<\/p>\n<p>The games revolve around the cartoon character Jiji, a penguin whose life is made easier when the student gets the problem correct.<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/01\/jiji.jpg' alt='Jiji' \/><\/p>\n<p>There are similarities between this program and the approach taken in Singapore to teach the solution of simultaneous equations using visualisation by blocks.<\/p>\n<p>ST Math Games is an interesting approach that is worth investigating. Apart from anything else, it does not insist that students start abstracting before they have a concrete understanding of concepts and it is catering for those who struggle with mathematics because of language issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/yet-another-computer-based-math-system-940#comments\" id=\"comms\">25 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here's a computer-based mathematics learning system that gets students to obtain a good visual concept of mathematics before using number, symbols or language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}