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This one title from the Math Journey series covers Grade 1- Measurement and Shapes.
Math Journey is a mathematics series for Kindergarten through Grade 3 that incorporates the best pedagogical thinking and research on teaching and learning elementary mathematics, embedded in a rich multimedia interactive environment that promotes student inquiry and understanding.
The Math Journey series consists of fourteen CD-ROMs over the four grade levels.
Kindergarten
- Numbers and Counting
- Math Readiness
Grade 1
- Money and Time
- Number Concepts
- Operations
- Measurement and Shapes
Grade 2
- Number Concepts
- Addition
- Subtraction
- Multiplication, Fractions and Shapes
Grade 3
- Number Concepts
- Addition and Subtraction
- Multiplication and Division
- Fractions
ELECTRONIC MANIPULATIVES
Elementary school teachers use a variety of concrete manipulatives. Math Journey incorporates electronic versions of three of these math tools: Math Rods, Math Cubes, and Fraction Strips. The math manipulatives are central to Math Journey, and insure that students both experience and internalize math concepts.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
In addition to electronic math manipulatives, Math Journey supports a large number and wide range of other kinds of activities, including portfolio activities (students can create their own number books), interactive tutorials (students answer questions based on text and graphics), worksheets (students order numbers), and instructional games.
CORE PRINCIPLES
The core of the instructional approach of Math Journey is based on the following principles of educational product design:
- Developmentally appropriate Accessible
- Rigorous Reflective
- Student-focused Open-ended
- Language sensitive Inquiry-centered
- Meaningful and connected
MATH CONTENT
Math Journey supports integrated learning of math through coverage of the four basic strands of grades 1 through 3 mathematics:
- (1) Place Value
- (2) Math Facts and Operations,
- (3) Fractions, Decimals & Percents, and
- (4) Geometry.
Each program at each grade level taps into students' prior knowledge so that their intuitive understanding increasingly rises to meet the challenge of each new learning opportunity.
AVAILABLE VERSIONS
SINGLE USER
- includes one user license on CD-ROM for installation on one computer
5 USER LAB PACK
- consists of 5 Single User version CD-ROMs
NETWORK/SITE (UNL)
- includes one network version CD-ROM for secure network installation and one single user reproducible CD-ROM
Minimum System Requirements
- Windows 2000 / XP Home / XP Pro
- Macintosh OS9, OSX
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