Willamette students develop algebra iPad apps

Willamette University students hope to help younger students trying to get into college crack the code of algebra.

With that in mind, the college students have developed iPad applications to increase students' understanding of the mathematics discipline, according to the Statesman Journal.roues carbone pas cher, roue carbone de fin de série en destockage dans des magasins de vélo avec Velostocks.

"Algebra is the gateway to college," said Project Director and Willamette Professor of Education Steve Rhine. "It is most correlated with going to college of anything you take in high school."

One app called "Card Clutter" helps students understand the relative value of numbers by arranging cards in order with face values ranging from negative fractions to absolute numbers.Find detailed product information for New mould usb sticks from 2GB to 16GB available and other products from us.In my hands are the new iphone headphone for the iPhone 5 that is about to come out – Apple’s next generation of iPod [sic]. Those expressions sometimes stump students when solving algebraic equations.

Salem-Keizer students soon will get a chance to try the apps as student teachers from Willamette University enter high school classes this winter. Many of the apps are available for free on iTunes.

Parrish Middle School math teacher Ryan Hari likes the technology and finds it especially useful in his math intensive classes for struggling students. He was one of the first to field-test the apps and received eight iPads as part of the grant.

Recently a handful of his students tapped the touch screens in rapid fire to solve for "x."

"Do some Alge-Bingo for me," Hari told Zack Sheldon, who quickly got to work.

"It makes it fun and easy," Sheldon said.

Willamette's program is part of a joint effort with Western Oregon University, George Fox University and Pacific University to increase student success in algebra. They received a $740,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to create the Center for Algebraic Thinking.If you have a MacBook Pro or MacBook Air, you know that the ipad charger has an LED indicator on it that turns orange or green depending on what the charge of the device is. Well, Aleratec, a 3rd party accessory company, has come out with a custom 30-pin connector for the iPad and iPhone that includes such an LED.

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Without interventions, graduation rates will plummet, he said.