- It’s how students learn.
- It’s easy to use.
- It will transform your math classes.
Math Bits offers teachers a set of instructional resources that help them teach in ways that motivate their students.
Based on the constructivist 5E instructional model, Math Bits’ multimedia lessons use a wealth of interactive content to promote inquiry-based, guided discovery learning focused on developing key competencies.
Math Bits can be used as a replacement for textbooks or as supplementary material.
Features
- Carefully designed activities based on research in math education and the science of how people learn.
- Interactive multimedia resources for active, participatory learning: videos, animations, and simulators.
- Hundreds of self-correcting activities and additional resources for active learning.
- Tools for systematic individual practice, essential for consolidating concepts and procedures, with multiple opportunities for generative feedback and assessment for learning.
- Easy-to-use tools to comprehensively track each student’s progress.
- Learning objectives focused on understanding mathematical concepts and procedures, as well as developing math skills.
- Assessment tests that evaluate not just memorized content, but also students’ comprehensive learning and ability to apply knowledge in new contexts.
- Complete teacher guides with usage instructions and suggestions for each activity, along with detailed schedules.
Benefits
- Math Bits is a multimedia repository of lessons that promotes a shift from a fact-based educational model to a constructivist approach, grounded in inquiry, discovery, reflection, and critical reasoning.
- Math Bits is designed to make classroom work easier while maximizing the potential of digital formats, leveraging both each student’s computer and the digital whiteboard.
- When used with a projector or digital whiteboard, Math Bits enriches teacher presentations and encourages interaction with students, thanks to its wide array of multimedia resources: illustrations, videos, animations, experiments, and simulators.
- Math Bits boosts student motivation and makes it easier for them to understand concepts through audiovisual elements and the ability to interact with learning objects.
- Math Bits encourages the educational use of computers or tablets by students. With Math Bits, these devices can replace traditional textbooks or serve as a highly valuable complementary tool.
- Math Bits provides a simple and effective way to implement the 5E constructivist model and discovery-based learning focused on developing educational competencies.
- Math Bits offers an easy-to-use intranet that allows teachers to create student groups, assign personalized activity sets and content, schedule exams, monitor student progress, and evaluate responses to open-ended questions, among other features.
