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What is Logotron Visual Fractions?
 Logotron Visual Fractions is a powerful new tool for teachers, providing many new learning opportunities through its unique visual representation of fractional relationships.
Ideal for use by the teacher or pupil on a classroom whiteboard, Logotron Visual Fractions comes with a rich palette of visual maths objects that can be dynamically connected together and their properties varied with just a point and a click.
What can it do?
Using a selection of simple tools, you can connect mathematical objects to show a wide variety of dynamic teaching points that just aren't possible in any other way. Logotron Visual Fractions comes with a large number of pre-prepared activities that can enhance and extend your teaching of fractions from year 2 - 6 and beyond.
 Connecting objects and creating visual relationships on the screen gives a new opportunity for teachers and pupils to understand those hard-to-grasp fraction concepts.
Children will quickly see the behaviour of fractions, decimal fractions, percentages, ratio, picture fractions, group fractions and more, where they may have struggled to understand with traditional methods. Ratio work, in particular, is given a refreshing degree of clarity by Logotron Visual Fractions.
Logotron Visual Fractions activity screens can be combined together into saved script sequences, allowing you to prepare your own visual frameworks to be used as part of your teaching and retrieved from disk whenever you need to use them again.
| "This is easily the best whiteboard resource to use for teaching about fractions and their equivalents. It is simple to use, has graphics that can be tailored for children of different ages and a range of imagery which addresses all aspects of the topic. The built-in ability to design and store activities, adding to those already available, makes this a must for any school."
John Hackney, general adviser for maths in Tameside. |
How can it be used in the classroom?
 If you have access to an interactive whiteboard, Logotron Visual Fractions allows you to deliver a new dimension to your teaching of fractions. Using the software as a central focus, you can 'drag and drop' live fraction objects onto your screen, connect them together dynamically to demonstrate important visual relationships and mathematical behaviour.
The clever part comes when you apply the toolkit of objects to visually reinforce your own teaching, using it as a centre of mathematical discussion � Why does that happen? What do you expect to happen if..? How could we show that...? What would I need to do in order to show that...?
The scripting facility allows you to create and save 'explanation' or 'experiment' frameworks either as single activities or as linked sequences of screens, so that you can be well prepared and maintain the pace and focus of your fraction lessons.
Key Stage: KS1 to KS3
Platform: Windows
Format: CD
Scottish Primary Key Stage: P1 to P7
Scottish Senior Key Stage: S1 to S4
Price: £49.00
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