A blog post on Matific
I personally believe that Matific is an easy to use, fun and educational online mathematics tool that indirectly teaches kids to enjoy maths whilst completing their activities. When I was at primary school, I remember having quite a lot of maths anxiety and I also have many memories of just completing worksheets instead of doing hands on activities. I believe that Matific activities not only allow kids to enjoy learning maths but they also teach kids new skills and allow them to develop their old ones. Everyday new technologies are being introduced to the world and kids are the first ones to use them, as it is part of our culture for children to be on technology 24/7. “Children engage in a range of everyday activities that promote the use of and understanding of topics such as measurement, shapes, money and time” (“Shibboleth Authentication Request”, 2019) The Matific activities allow students to engage in these skills but also bring them into real life situations for example counting up to ten, where they count items in groups. Matific did research and evaluations into how their programs were being used in classrooms and wether or not the programs were allowing for an increase in their students growth or whether it kept their learning growth the same. One positive that they found from this research was that the educators using this program, were “able to individualise learning by assigning different tasks to different students depending on their mathematic ability.” (“Matific mathematics learning resources”, 2019) This is a great way to show the positive achievement that the program Matific can have on a child’s education.
References:
Matific mathematics learning resources. (2019). Retrieved from https://leo.acu.edu.au/pluginfile.php/3447759/mod_resource/content/0/Matific%20Research.pdf
Shibboleth Authentication Request. (2019). Retrieved from https://link-springer-com.ezproxy2.acu.edu.au/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs13394-011-0002-7.pdf
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