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- 1. An Innovative Solution to Enhance Gifted and Talented Math Education in Elementary and Middle Schools Gallifreyan Academy of Bowties Team 4902
- 2. The FLL World Class Research Project Choose a topic that we are passionate about or always wanted to learn Create an innovative solution that improves the learning experience Share our solution with others • We are passionate about Mathematics! • Question: We are concerned that not all Gifted and Talented students have access to the right programs to help them excel in their studies. • We are building an innovative solution to challenge and motivate Gifted and Talented students to stay interested in Mathematics Our Task
- 3. Why is it Important? United States has fallen to the 6th place in Global Innovation Index There is indeed an acute shortage of US workers with STEM skills – as reflected by an authoritative research published by the Brookings Institute At the same time 73% of the teachers surveyed by National Association of Gifted Children (NAGC) conceded: “Too often, the brightest students are bored and under-challenged in school – we’re not giving them a sufficient chance to thrive”
- 4. Challenges Faced by “Gifted” Students A Gifted Child has advanced capacity to learn and apply what is learned, as compared to his or her peers (as per the definition from NAGC) This advanced capacity requires modifications to the regular curriculum to ensure these children are challenged Many gifted students may be so far ahead of their same- age peers that they know more than half of the grade- level curriculum before the school year begins Gifted students may become bored or frustrated in an unchallenging classroom situation causing them to lose interest, learn bad study habits, or distrust the school environment
- 5. Challenges Faced by “Gifted” Students A Gifted Child has advanced capacity to learn and apply what is learned, as compared to his or her peers (as per the definition from NAGC) This advanced capacity requires modifications to the regular curriculum to ensure these children are challenged Many gifted students may be so far ahead of their same- age peers that they know more than half of the grade- level curriculum before the school year begins Gifted students may become bored or frustrated in an unchallenging classroom situation causing them to lose interest, learn bad study habits, or distrust the school environment
- 6. Ingredients for an Effective Solution Interesting and Motivating • If children can’t figure out solution to a problem right away, then they might think they are stupid or don’t have the gift or the knack for Math Right Technique • Interleave subject matter to fit the mind's natural capacity to detect patterns and detect changes in the sequence Right Pace • Everybody learns at a different pace • Students must be able to set their own pace that suits their learning style Practice • Learning Math is so much like learning a musical instrument • It needs a little bit of mental practice every day
- 7. Our Solution Exceeding Expectations Challenges is a website created by us to help the students and teachers The central feature of our website is a cool game that is both Engaging and Educational The teachers can input Math problems in a problem bank As kids play the Game, they are presented these problems and they must solve them as part of the game play
- 8. Our Solution Like most of the modern day games, the player has to reach a goal (like in Mario games, the goal is to save Peach) Each level is a great adventure, where kids solve challenges to acquire cool powers to help them beat the villains The game storyline is based on themes that kids are familiar with: Doctor Who, Star Wars, Hunger Games, Star Trek, Harry Potter and Percy Jackson We have studied and questioned ourselves about what makes the games we play so much fun. We have integrated all those ideas in our game
- 9. What makes our approach unique Khan Academy is a great tool for education. We bet many of you use his videos. It is a great tool, but can be monotonous Also, the little quizzes on Khan Academy tend to be annoying, and not that much fun Other websites like Udacity or Coursera are more for higher education. They use block learning methodology and cannot ensure students will remember the information over long term The way we integrate interleaving of subject matter is extraordinary and unique from many other websites
- 10. What makes our approach unique Problem with most educational websites is that they are either too much math or too much game For example, Cool Math Games and Hooda Math are websites that kids frequently visit. Hardly any games are related to something based on actual curriculum Funbrain does a better job of integrating math into their website, but they don’t follow standard curriculum On our site we follow the Common Core curriculum and give teachers the ability to pick the problems they want their students to solve
- 11. We need your input Visit our site @ www.eechallenges.org Click on the “Play Game” button to try out the Game Provide us feeback by E-mail at: gabcademy@gmail.com Respond to our survey as a Parent, Student or Teacher
- 12. Team Advaita Singh – 8th Grade Alex Roberts – 6th Grade Eashan Sahai – 8th Grade Sreekar Tiruchunapally – 7th Grade Vishwah Jaine – 6th Grade Challenge School - Denver CO - USA