Challenge: To design a resource that will help the student with their learning of times tables.
Background: The Mathematics program that our students are currently working through is at the point that the students are looking to memorise or learn their time tables. To assist with this we talked to the students about the way that they might make a simple game that would reinforce the knowledge required.
One of the aspect identified was for students to have recall and memory for basic facts - times tables. The student concerned here was a cohort two student who had been designing since last year - they were able to produce this prototype with their iPad in a few minutes when they evaluated it for size, viability and usefulness. The student wanted to make adjustments immediately on seeing the design, hence the drawing in vivid on the bottom of the two tiles.
The reworked design is going to look like the example shown left. The student has decided to split the question and answer tile and print them separately. They also have increased the distance between the equals symbol and the answer.
Level of Difficulty: Low - this student is confident and know that they could easily design this with their skillset the only question would be the refining when the print was completed.
Size: Version one of this project as shown above has a tile that is 70mm long 30mm high and is 5mm wide. Since the prototype was developed the student has made the decision to go with a split (as shown) although the original dimensions will remain in place.
Cost/Price: A single print of the first print in the series (as shown) uses 12g of PLA to complete the print and has a price point at this size of $0.30. There is no change with the upgrade.
Timeframe: To complete the print as a single question and answer tile has a timeframe of twenty minutes. Subsequent redesign has not affected this time and can be used to determine how many questions need to be focussed on.
What we would do differently/Next Steps for the students: We have made our own resources in the past,
including examples that we have shared on this blog. This example is a starting point for a range of designs that will be able to target something specific to our classroom.
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