Logotron Doesn’t Do Things By Halves!

You will not have seen anything like Logotron Visual Fractions before! Launched at BETT, this powerful new software tool is equally at home on a PC or an Interactive Whiteboard. It offers pupils clarity of understanding that can only be achieved by using visual representation.

According to a recent article in the TES Assessment Supplement, “Maths questions are easier for pupils to answer if teachers illustrate them with graphics”. The survey of 1,300 eight to fourteen-year-olds quoted that 58 per cent were able to answer a fraction question that contained a graphic, but only 38 per cent were able to answer the same question without the graphic.

Logotron were well aware of this kind of statistic when they developed the software. Logotron Visual Fractions offers a brand new style of mathematics teaching that aims to help boost the numeracy skills of a new generation of learners.

Ideal for use by the teacher or pupil on an interactive classroom whiteboard, the software comes with a rich palette of visual maths objects that can be dynamically connected together and their properties varied with just a point and click. With the software as a central focus, you can ‘drag and drop’ live fraction objects onto your screen, then connect them together to demonstrate important visual relationships and mathematical behaviour, which can often be hard for pupils to grasp.

The clever part comes when you apply the toolkit of objects to visually reinforce teaching, using it at the centre of mathematical discussions – 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…?

Pupils 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.

In true Logotron tradition, 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.

The scripting facility allows you to create and save ‘explanation’ or ‘experiment’ frameworks either as single activities or as linked sequences of screens. So, fraction lessons can be well paced and focused and pupils will be stimulated and visually entertained by the world of fractions in a way they would never have thought possible.

For further details on Logotron Visual Fractions and how it will help deliver the National Curriculum visit our website www.logo.com/cat/view/logotron-visual-fractions.html