Challenge: For the students to independently create, test and evaluate a Mathematical resource that can be used in the learning of times tables.
Background: As part of the structured Mathematics approach at our school (and nation wide) we have certain benchmarks that we would like our students to achieve. One of these is to be able to recall a range of times tables basic fact accurately. One of these is the four time tables.
In this challenge we tasked students with creating a learning tool or a learning task that would reinforce this learning. As detailed on this blog on Friday the student started by creating a design - but in the initial printing and design the answers were joined to the question. When the student received feedback and thought about this she came to the conclusion that she needed to have seperate question and answer tiles and also she wanted to include the entire range.
She created the second version of her design and wanted to have a location for it - in this case a mini whiteboard. This should lean into the student using some form of simple magnets to be able to ensure each of the tile stays in place.
As it stands at the moments the tiles are also a single colour - the student has stated that they would be more effective if they were combined colours or the answer tile was a seperate colour.
The student has been able to assemble this quickly although has stated that they are going to review the size of the tiles. The question tiles measure 40mm by 20mm are are currently 2mm wide and the answer tiles are 20mm by 15mm. While these are serviceable for the task the student is in the process of reconsidering them as they are a little small.
Resource used to complete the project: iPad,
Tinkercad App, Bambu (H2D) printer, regular dark blue Bambu PLA.
Level of Difficulty: Medium - there is some refining to do but the student has the concept, the idea and has worked to complete it independently. They have started play testing the game already to think about some rules (such as completing the times tables before the time on a clock runs out).
Size: As noted the current set up includes twelve tiles for the questions that are 40mm by 20mm by 2mm and twelve answer tiles that are 20mm by 15mm by 2mm. Potentially these are too small. However the student wanted to fit the entire run of prints on a single work plane.
Cost/Price: To complete the print of the tiles the printer used 38g of regular PLA this had a price point of $0.98c. Obviously if as intended the designs is upscaled in size their will be adjustments to this figure.
Timeframe: The print using standard settings took one hour and twenty three minutes to complete.
What we would do differently/Next steps for the students: Potentially this would be a viable candidate for a colour match/dual colour print. We have spoken about the size before making the tiles larger. This would also have potential to have some of the times table removed. This design has the full range of four times tables but in the classroom there are a number of student not requiring every tile. We could also produce a 'focus' pack of identified times table questions that we would want mastery of.
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