Creating New Mathematical Applications Utilizing Smart Table
Cheryl Seals · i-manager s Journal on School Educational Technology · 2011
The SMART Table provides users with increased flexibility, both in terms of content and teaching style. Thanks to the SMART Table Toolkit, a resource that comes with the SMART Table, users can create an almost limitless supply of activities for their interactive learning center. The toolkit helps users customize ready-made activities and create new ones. As students learn, teachers refine and redesign activities to keep the children challenged and engaged (Figure 1). Today's tech-savvy students naturally gravitate to the SMART Table, and its horizontal, 360 degree surface makes it easy and fun for them to collaborate on activities. While working 2003 ), but it also inspires cooperative competition. In Alabama, the state curriculum for kindergarten through second grade in mathematics education instructs students in the rudimentary manipulation of the base numbers zero through ten (Education 2003) . Teachers will greatly benefit from a fun mathematical interactive educational system that involves base numbers. During this project, the authors implemented an educational tool utilizing the SMART Table SDK and Visual Studios 2008 to teach K-2 inequalities and the number line through educational software.