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Multimodal Learning Environment. By: Meagan Ryerse. COLOR CHIPS-Addition Summary. Using Color Chips to Add Integers Taken from the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
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Multimodal Learning Environment By: Meagan Ryerse
COLOR CHIPS-Addition Summary • Using Color Chips to Add Integers • Taken from the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives • This virtual manipulative allows students to use blocks to solve problems in adding with integers and correct their own work by placing the negative integers over the positive ones, write in the correct answer and check their answer. • This site links to the NYS Standards to show where this fits inside the NYS teaching curriculum • URL:http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_161_g_1_t_1.html?from=category_g_1_t_1.html
NYS Standards • K-2 Expectations: In pre-k through grade 2 all students should- • count with understanding and recognize "how many" in sets of objects; • use multiple models to develop initial understandings of place value and the base-ten number system
Connections to Moreno and Mayer (2007) • The color chips virtual manipulative correlates with Feedback Principle as described by Moreno and Mayer (2007). • Moreno and Mayer (2007) states that “students learn better with explanatory rather than corrective feedback” • “Explanatory feedback reduces extraneous processing by providing students with proper schemas to repair their misconceptions”. • Although this manipulative does not offer extensive feedback, it allows the students to check the answer themselves and figure out what they need to do to fix it if they are wrong. The student can then work on the problem using until they are correct.
Is this mmle effective? • This MMLE does not fit many of the principles seen in Mayer and Moreno (2007) • The feedback mechanism in this MMLE is not explanatory enough so that the students fully understand what they have done wrong. • It does however, also allow students to pace themselves and work on their own time as seen in Mayer and Moreno (2007) • This tool is not an ideal manipulative but would offer additional practice for students.