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Learning math skills can be frustrating and complicated for children. In order to make things easier, schools are using new programs to help children learn math in a fun and simple way, mimicking computer games.

School administrators are responsible for choosing the type of curriculum taught to children. As long as they are learning, the curriculum is considered effective. Using computer games as a tool is one option available to today’s schools.

There are both similarities and differences between the new computerized programs and the former method of writing in math workbooks, tearing out the pages and turning them in.

While the newer method does require computer access for every child, most schools now have that capability. As children do more hands-on learning on computers and less in books, these programs are capable of reaching them on a level they can understand.

For example, some programs use incentive tools similar to those found in video games. Each time a child completes a satisfactory score on a worksheet, the program congratulates them and gives them a score. With each level, the score increases. After a certain number of points, the student reaches a named level, such as captain or commodore.

At the end of all levels, children are greeted by a celebration and encouraged by a computer voice to change topics.

Some have a time limit to complete tasks, much like a game. If the math problems are not completed in time, a buzzer sounds indicating that they are out of time. This raises the competitive level from simply completing tasks to competing for how quickly they can do it, and do it correctly.

Elementary math is the building block on more complex topics that students must learn for the future. From simple addition and subtraction to telling time, it is a fundamental knowledge base used throughout life. Computers are also a basic fundamental building block for the future. Math programs integrate both.

School administrators, teachers and parents are also able to use the computer-based programs much like the former means of checking math worksheets on students’ homework.

Computer based math practice problems are helpful in training children how to use math skills in real life while still using tried and true methods of testing. As with the old-school techniques, modern math programs also use multiple choice, fill in the blank and true or false questions to quiz students.

Each school must be divided into work units. The pupils within each work unit are divided into classes and also, for their everyday work, into groups of various sizes.

The work unit need not comprise classes from the   grade. A unit can, for example, be formed comprising pupils from grades I, 2 and 3. The work unit may also comprise classes from different levels.

An arrangement of this kind can often present great advantages. Senior pupils can help junior pupils.

Work units must be more than an administrative division. The aim is for them to be developed into a small school within the framework of the large one.

They must be conducive to close co-operation between staff and pupils.

Essential goals of school work are more easily attained if certain duties within school management districts are delegated to the work units. Duties of this kind include the following.

-The work units have an important part to play in educational planning.They should plan basic training in skills, the work to be done by remedial teachers, the timing of project studies and so

-The work unit is a natural framework for the discussion and planning of support for pupils in difficulty. No problem need be referred to the school pupil welfare conference unless it cannot be solved within the work unit, for example by consultation with parents, by the application of different methods, by the coverage of different subject matter, or by work in smaller groups, individual assignments etc.

- In many cases the work unit is the natural unit in which to agree concerning the scope of the pupils’ own responsibilities and their own contributions to the environment, and also to plan free activities. it is often a suitable unit for information to and discussions with parents concerning various matters.

Consultation concerning educational planning and concerning activities during the school year or the term should result in a working plan for the work unit. The Education Ordinance contains provisions concerning the duty of planning instruction and pupil welfare work within the work unit.

The working plan must outline a program and define goals and aims in such a way that it is possible at the end of the school year or term to evaluate activities and agree on any alterations that are to be made to working methods or aims for a future period of activities.

In this way schools are to advance by means of co-operation and consultations between pupils, staff and school management.

The organization of a school into work units makes it easier for teachers to co-operate in teaching teams. Co-operation of this kind between the adult members of the school community is an important example to the pupils of democracy in operation, and it is essential with a view to the consistent and purposive development of skills in different subjects.

In the future our shopping carts at the grocery store will not be similar to the ones you see today. In fact, your shopping cart will know where every item in the store is, and it will probably have a laser pointing device that points to this section of whatever it was that you asked for last.

Luckily, it will be voice interactive, and contain speech recognition software. You can ask the cart about any given product such as the number of calories, number of grams of fat, or if it contains something you don’t want such as an artificial sweetener, or perhaps gluten.

Best of all, you won’t have to worry about Swine Flu season, because the future shopping cart will be coated with a special chemical or titanium dioxide, which will kill the germs. Your cart will also tell you which checkout line will go the fastest space on a probability scale, based on a quick calculation of the number of items of the person currently checking out, the number of people in line, and the speed and efficiency of that particular checker.

Your shopping cart will also alert you if you left an item inside of it before returning it to the cart collection area in the parking lot. It would be impossible at that point to leave anything inside the cart. The cart will also advise you that it must be put into the parking lot cart pin, and not left in the middle of the parking lot.

This concept is sometimes referred to as “School 2.0″. If you don’t get the reference, it’s time to upskill slightly in your knowledge of classroom technology, as it’s a reference to “Web 2.0″, which is the new way of using the internet – using the internet as a place to share information and write things, rather than just a place to look up information that has been created by experts and professionals.

One of the key ideas of the “School 2.0″ concept is the idea of integrating classroom technology properly and the reasons why this should be done.

1. Classroom technology engages students. Most students like using technology and find it fun to interact with, and this applies to everything from videos through to use of the internet for research. Let’s face it: would you rather present your project as a poster with a few photocopied pictures stuck on with glue and accompanied by scratchy handwriting, or would you rather give a Powerpoint presentation where you can add in sounds, animations and writing that changes colour? Would you rather learn times tables by reciting them or by playing a game where you have to zap monsters marked with, say, “4 x 6″ by shooting the answer “24″ at them?

2. Computers are part of everyday life. We are no longer in the 1980s where computers were boring black and white screens with dot-matrix printers. And computers are no longer a novelty. Your students are now of the generation where computers are part of everyday life. Your students are used to playing on playstations (and the like) and seeing computer technology used for everything from parking meters to displaying songs and sermon notes at church.

3. Classroom technology can be used to bridge the gap between school and home. Emails to parents as a back-up to paper notes is an obvious form of communication. But it can go further. If a student has looked at a website at school, he or she can visit it again at home, and show his/her parents so they can talk about the issues and subjects with them. And projects and presentations can be displayed for other relatives to see – a student can send a link to the class website with the great photos of school sports day to Uncle George who’s working in Hong Kong (and as a bonus, Uncle George can post photos and descriptions of life in Hong Kong that can be used for a study on Hong Kong).

Many teachers and parents are a little afraid of the Internet. If you are unfamiliar with its unique terminology and non-intuitive interfaces, like me, which are constantly changing, it’s hard to get a workable knowledge and ways to use it properly. For teachers, it’s important to visit education sites for information and referrals and also to check into your school district’s professional development or IT training opportunities. Many companies that are selling hardware and network technology to our school districts want you to use it and they provide training and customer support.

Internet research needs extra time to learn and to learn how to teach your students to use it. And the Internet is a great way to learn it! Finding teacher forums and blogs that address your issues can help you find answers to questions quickly. Educational resource companies and educational websites also have a lot of free information on how to use content and how to find content. There are also a lot more internet articles and discussions on best practices for new technologies and are worth reading just to get new perspectives on the many and fast changes educators and teachers are having to make.