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• Email: demo-maths
• Password: demonstration

Lesson Resources:

Content is provided for you to learn and practise maths.

• Learn at your own pace.
• Develop awareness for your maths lesson.
• Identify questions to ask for your lesson.
• Repeat the explanations and exercises as many times as you need to.
• Allows you to focus lessons on extending your initial understanding.

Video Content:

Learn maths concepts through visual explanations.

• Observe maths as visual concepts.
• Watch as many times as you need.
• Avoid needing to repeat lessons to cover the same explanation.
• Develop awareness of new concepts ahead of lessons.

Exercises:

Learn maths using hands on exercises.

• Learn to think of maths as actions.
• Gain feedback on success and mistakes.
• Break maths into smaller and easier concepts.

Questions:

Apply your knowledge to real questions.

• A resource to discuss in your maths lessons.
• Gain feedback to improve your answers.
• Build notes for use in future revision.

Obstacles:

• Writing code distracts from learning concepts.
• Typing mistakes stop code from executing.
• Untidy code makes it difficult to correct mistakes.
• Missing syntax causes errors.

Solution:

• Separate concept theory from writing code.
• Use understanding of concept theory to support code.

For Instructors:

• Access detailed insights on learner progress.
• Identify learners who need addition support.
• Prevent escalation of misunderstandings.
• Confirm how learners are ready for future lessons.

Learner Awareness:

• Learning objectives are not always obvious.
• Provide clear objectives on what is to be learnt.

Visual Navigation:

• Avoid information overload.
• Provide presentation option for easier interpretation.
• Practise navigation skills using shapes and colour coding.

Perspectives and Objectives:

• Exercises are delivered as sets of tasks.
• Tasks demonstrate using the concept at all levels of complexity.
• Easier tasks encourage confidence in capability to use the concept.
• Harder tasks extend understanding of how the concept can be applied.
• Details of learning objectives are provided with each task.
• Requirements are presented as graphical or text symbols for easy identification.

Functionality Representation:

• Software system functionality are represented by symbols.
• Symbols avoid the need for complicated / distracting code.
• Simplified presentation allows more focus to practise the concept.

Easier Tasks:

• Allows code to be created and placed without typing.
• Avoids typing and syntax mistakes from becoming an obstacle.
• Helps learners to focus on understanding individuals steps of the concept.
• Emphasises the influence of where code is placed.

Tracking Results:

• Results can be interacted with to show where they were created from.
• Instructions can be interacted with to show the results they create.
• Allows learners to develop an understanding of how results are generated from code.
• Builds confidence and teamwork skills for working with code written by other people.
• A visual tool for teaching debugging and testing skills.

Task Completion:

• Each task is completed when the code output matches the requirements.
• Learners are informed when their code matches the requirements.
• Saves instructors time from needing to manually check code.

Collaboration Skills:

• Embrace code written by other programmers.
• Investigate relationships within existing code.
• Extend existing codebases.

Writing Real Code:

• Gradually progress towards writing real code.
• Learn to write syntax one rule at a time.
• Recognise meanings associated with syntax notation.
• Compose real code without drag and drop assistance.