Scratch in Math and Science Classrooms

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Scratch in Math and Science Classrooms

• Panel Behrouz Aghevli (drsuper)
• Fernando Frederico (ffred)
• Teresa Marques (teresamar)
• Karen Randall (room209)
• With a nod to other members of the Super School
  Team
• Nikos Dapontes (dapontes)
• Nevit Dilmen (nevit )
• Jean-Pierre Ferrigno (jpmath)

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How does Scratch help with the teaching and
learning math and science? How can we encourage
use of Scratch in math and science classrooms?
Gallery of examples for this session
http//scratch.mit.edu/galleries/view/91818
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Behrouz Aghevli, Great Falls VA, USA (Persian)

• Systems design and development, World Bank
• Professor, inventor, author and math
  manipulatives designer

My hope is that a series of Scratch activities
can be put together to help students learn basic
math and science in K-8 while playing and
remixing these activities.
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Behrouz Aghevli, Great Falls VA, USA (Persian)

• Taught Statistics at the UICC College of Stat.
  Informatics Iran
• Invented and patented 4 Mathematics
  Manipulatives
• Published 11 books in the field of Math education
  since 1990
• Afiliate Associate Professor at the Graduate
  School of Education at GMU from 1996 to 2003.
• Founded in 2001 the Metamedia Mathematics Program
  (a Scratch like tool for creating Math activities
  on the Web) jointly with Schools of Education
  Computational Statistics Visiting Professor at
  the School of Information Technology
  Engineering at GMU
• Pioneer in the development of Virtual
  Manipulatives
• Created over 40 projects (games, puzzles and
  activities) in Scratch and founder of the Super
  School Team for creating Math and Science
  activities for the classroom.

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DrSupers Classroom-Ready Galleries of
Activities, Games and Puzzles
Strategy Game
Numbers for Remixing in All Languages
Relating Multiplication to Addition
Mental Multiplication
Game with Array Model Of Multiplication
Multiplication with Decimals Tutor
Working with Coordinate System and Lines
Introduction to Artificial Life
Strategy Game
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Issues in using Scratch in math and science
classrooms

• Several thousand math and science related
  projectsactivities, games, puzzles are in
  several dozen galleries in Scratch. (example
  http//scratch.mit.edu/galleries/view/134)
• How can we make these classroom-ready and help
  the teachers find and use them?
• Sites like University of Utah NLVM and NCTMs
  Illuminations have many math related activities.
  However, these are much more controlled and rigid
  environments.
• Scratch projects can add a new dimension of
  allowing the students to open the activity and
  see how it was done and to remix them.

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Karen Randall, St. Paul MN, USA

• Elementary teacher interested in integrating
  Scratch with subject area instruction
• Class in pre-algebra with 6th graders at Expo
  Elementary School

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Standard math text introduction of concept
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Concept introduction using Scratch projects
http//scratch.mit.edu/projects/room209/672035
DrSuper http//scratch.mit.edu/projects/DrSuper/67
6759
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Concept application using Scratch challenges
http//scratch.mit.edu/projects/room209/321638
http//scratch.mit.edu/projects/ExpoSchool/867742
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Fernando Frederico, Setúbal, Portugal

• Computer-assisted cartographer for the Portuguese
  army, retired
• Volunteer in elementary schools

Scratch is like a blackboard the teacher can
use, with the great advantage that the pupils are
very attentive on everything that is going on
with it. I think some of my
projects could be useful to help in class but my
goal is to show students what they can do with
Scratch.
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Teresa Marques, Setúbal, Portugal

• Teacher, Escola Basica 2,3 de Azeitao

Scratch is... kinda... LOGO with multimedia
steroids and super powers, and much easier
access. When working out the curriculum, I
prefer to spend all the time possible trying to
get students to be constructors rather than only
consumers.
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Concept sharing using student-created Scratch
games and tutorials
http//scratch.mit.edu/projects/fAlipa/339322
http//scratch.mit.edu/projects/telle/103360
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Experimenting and exploring science concepts
using Scratch simulations
Dapontes http//scratch.mit.edu/projects/dapontes/
763277
Ffred http//scratch.mit.edu/projects/ffred/267191
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• First Challenge For Scratch activities to be
  used in the classroom the teacher must become a
  Scratcher! Do you agree or disagree?
• Second Challenge For Scratch math and science
  projects to be classroom ready teacher and
  developers have to work closely together.
• Third Challenge We need a good search facility
  to find Scratch projects relating to a given math
  or science topic.

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Invitation
The Super School Team would like to invite all
interested teachers and developers to work
together to come up with a large number of
classroom ready activities and games and a
convenient classifying method.
Math Group Contacts

• Behrouz Aghevli (drsuper) baghevli2_at_worldbank.org
  
• Fernando Frederico (ffred)
• Teresa Marques (teresamar)
• Nikos Dapontes (dapontes)
• Nevit Dilmen (nevit )
• Jean-Pierre Ferrigno (jpmath)

Karen.randall_at_spps.org (room209)