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MILLIE ’ S MATH HOUSE. Alice Mello Cavallo & Shaundra L. Bryant Technology Review March 29, 2004. Overview. General Description Activities Overview Evaluation. Little, Middle, and Big. Size matching Help Little, Middle, and Big to find shoes
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MILLIE’S MATH HOUSE Alice Mello Cavallo & Shaundra L. Bryant Technology Review March 29, 2004
Overview • General Description • Activities Overview • Evaluation
Little, Middle, and Big • Size matching • Help Little, Middle, and Big to find shoes • Randomly places shoes on shelve and each character asks for some shoes • Incorrect: “Too big/small” • Correct: “Thanks! These fit nice”
Let’s Build A Mouse House • Shape recognition • Asks for the shape and child moves it from one side to the other • Incorrect: “Uh, oh that’s a square” • Correct: “Great!” • Once finished other mice do a dance
What’s My Number? • Counting, Addition, and Subtraction • Duck prompts child to put the same number of shapes on her stage • Incorrect: “They don’t match” • Correct: “Good Job” + animation
Bing and Boing • Learning sequences/Pattern Matching • Child is shown sequence first then prompted to repeat it • Incorrect: “Oops try another one” • Correct: “All right”
Let’s Make a Bug! • Number and Shape Matching • Rabbit asks child to make a bug with a certain number of the shapes on from the panel • Incorrect: “That’s too many” • Correct: “Nice Bug” + bug rolls or flies away
Cookie Factory • Numbers and quantities • Help Horse to put the correct number of jelly beans on the cookie • Counts and shows the number that is on the cookie • Incorrect: Froggy gets to eat the cookie • Correct: Horsey gets to eat it
This is the number machine! • Learning to count 10’s, 20’s and 30’s • Worm asks to find a number in the cashier machine. • Correct: the draw opens up and that same number of characters will appear one by one while they are being counted. • Incorrect: The incorrect number is displayed and it is said aloud: “This is number X”. • If there are more than 3 mistakes, it erases (unable) all the numbers in the rows where the required number is not located. • If there are 4 mistakes than it erases all the numbers except the required one.
Evaluation - Likes • Animation and Sounds • Clear speaking • Gender neutral animal characters • Fundamental Math Skills • Semi-self directed • Curriculum Equivalence • Easy Installation • Reward • Succinct phrases • Rabbit, horse, frog, blobs, duck • Counting, adding, subtracting, pattern matching • Free Mode and Guided Mode • Massachusetts Framework • Put in cd and follow directions
Evaluation -- Overall • Fun • Use in conjunction with teaching for better depth • Only use for 5 and under 3 Star Rating