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Comments on Roadmap: Labeling Answers In Math

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Reviewed by: Cathie Norris & Elliot Soloway, 12/27/18

Short, sweet and TO THE POINT! For 1^st graders with attention spans of… 1^st graders… a lovely Roadmap! The “silly little letter” is actually quite compelling!  And the instructions – read with a buddy – will insure that the youngsters will plow through it. Very clever!  The kid-generated video re-iterates the point – but using video. Words and then video – multiple media – can’t do that with paper!!

A “little” thing.. but we REALLY liked the colorful links! And the labels provide the order for visiting the nodes – and a fun challenge – Try it!

Perhaps we should turn these practice problems into a Google Form “quiz” so the kids can get feedback – right/wrong – immediately. Ditto for the next activity (show me…).

Thank you for the teacher resources!  (Now we see where “number stories” comes from!) Perhaps giving the web resource node a short title, e.g., Addition Number Stories, would be a good “advance organizer.”

We played with including the URL for that PDF inside the Teacher Narrative node. But, then, a teacher would have to copy that URL and then paste it into the URL bar of the browser in order to retrieve the PDF. Your strategy, however, of including the URL inside a “Web Resource” node makes it much easier for the teacher to access the PDF – just click!  In sum:  we prefer your strategy for providing a URL to the teacher; a good model to copy!

Bottom line: Short, sweet and TO THE POINT!