EISD Special Education
Parent Training
Applications to Use at Home to Promote Math Skills
PicCollage
This app is fun and easy. Simply pick the photos you want for your collage, arrange them, add text, save and printing is optional. No account required, in app purchases, no ads, no social sharing, can disable web browsing
- Create 2 quantities with base ten blocks and determine greater or less than
- Create math word problems
- 3D Shape Search
- Find Parallel or Intersecting Lines
PicCollage
PicCollage Activity
Using your bag of tens and ones blocks, create both numbers on the cards and create a Piccollage demonstrating the numbers given and notate which one is greater and less
Requirements Use at Least
- 1 background color
- 2 images
- 2 font styles
- 2 font colors
Geoboards
Tool for exploring a variety of math concepts. Learners stretch bands around the pegs to form line segments and polygons and make discoveries about perimeter, areas, angles, congruence fractions and more.
https://youtu.be/tTrraibD5Sk
GeoBoard Activity
Create a GeoBoard representing 5 shapes of the same kind but 5 different sizes
Requirements
- Use at least 3 different colored rubber bands
- Label the shape
- Label the smallest and the largest
Math Vocabulary Cards
Helps students understand math terms, each card has a vocabulary word, a model and definition. Vocabulary words can be selected individually or by category. Will translate between English and Spanish and can mask/unmask sections of the cards
3 Parts to Vocabulary Card
Mask sections of the card by tapping the Eye icon
Image is Masked
Spanish Translation
Vocabulary Word is Masked
Math Vocabulary Cards Activity
1. Find the Array Card and mask the visual representation
2. Take a screen shot of the card
3. Using the PicCollage App and the array screen shot, create your own visual representation
Requirements
- Use at least 2 visual representations of an array