The free app I choose to review was called Math Fractions Lite. This app could be used in a math classroom when first introducing fractions to offer practice or assistance to struggling students. The app is designed to help students learn equal parts of a shape, how to divide regions equally, and how to identify them by name through multiple choice questions. The app does so by first offering students the opportunity to view a short tutorial on the area of concentration. The first section that goes over dividing shapes asks students to identify which dotted line cuts the shape into two equal parts. The next section show three shapes and asks the student to choose which shape is divided into specific number of equal parts. For example, there are three rectangles and the question asks the student to divide the shape into five equal parts. The final section asks students to move a scissors to cut a shape into a specific number of equal parts. In one case, it asks to cut a circle into eight equal parts and when completed revels that eight parts is called eights. During the activity if a students answers a question wrong it will identify the correct answer. At the end of the activity there is a final review which walks students through different shapes and identifies each shapes label according to the number of times its divided.
One major pro to this app was the fraction tutorials. Sometimes it’s difficult for students to comprehend the entirety of a concept from a lesson. By utilizing app’s such as this one, students might better understand certain concepts that were before unclear. In addition to the tutorials I felt the “voice on” option that read the questions out loud was also a great feature. A large con to this app is that it can’t monitor the progress of students. This means that if an educator wanted to know how a student was doing with the app they would need to observe his/her work while completing the activity.
In the classroom I would use this app as a review or an additional teaching tool. If I believed a student was struggling or needed extra practice I might pull them aside and have them use the app. Not only does it reinforce concepts that should have already been covered but it will also challenge them on what they’ve already learned. Overall, Math Fractions Lite is a fun and easy tool to practice fraction knowledge.
i think this app could be very helpful for students struggling with fractions, i wish they had something like this when i was learning fractions, i had the hardest time with them. i think if i would have had a game i could use for practice it would have been better than all of those worksheets. i feel the pictures and the voice would help it would make the students feel like its more a one-on-one lesson and they can get more out of it.
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