{"id":8880,"date":"2021-05-04T01:31:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T20:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/?p=8880"},"modified":"2021-05-04T01:31:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T20:01:58","slug":"app-development-in-my-math-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/app-development-in-my-math-class\/","title":{"rendered":"App Development in my Math Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">I am constantly looking for new ways to inspire my students and ignite their imagination while instilling in them a love of learning. Keeping them engaged and encouraging them to tap into their innovative side by thinking outside the box is such a vital part of their growth. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a mathematics teacher with several years of teaching experience, I have always made it my goal to explore the use of various tools that make learning fun for my students. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of such educational tools is MAD-learn, a mobile app development program which I used in two of my classes last year and which i\u2019m currently using in four classes. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">MAD-learn is called App Creation in my school and is project based.\u00a0 Our students use the program to solve real life problems through mobile app creation. Presently, our Middle School has a need for a\u00a0 virtual school store, so students are competing to create the best virtual store app using MAD-learn. As always, I am super excited to see the creativity of students come to life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-03-at-19.55.44.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8881\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-03-at-19.55.44.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-03-at-19.55.44.png 924w, http:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-03-at-19.55.44-300x237.png 300w, http:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-03-at-19.55.44-768x607.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">In order for MAD-learn to impact my teaching, it had to first impact me and it did.\u00a0 This program has all of the characteristics to help develop the character of a student.\u00a0 An app creator must be analytical, organized, create, communicate effectively, able to work in a team, and persevering.\u00a0 The biggest issue for students is developing creativity skills and patience planning their projects.\u00a0 They learn how and why planning is so important and learn to appreciate the process. The program has several cool components, however my favorites are the Code Set Library , Videos and Powerpoint slides for teachers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">I am very hopeful that with the help of the HTML, CSS and Javascript components of the program, my students will be motivated to continue learning computer science. I absolutely recommend MAD-learn to other teachers. Their customer service is excellent and it is packaged perfectly for teachers. The Curriculum Resources and Video Tutorials for students sealed the deal for me!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">~Kimberly M. Epps<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Mathematics Teacher<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Oceanside\u00a0 High School and Oceanside Middle School, NY<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am constantly looking for new ways to inspire my students and ignite their imagination while instilling in them a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8880"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8882,"href":"http:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8880\/revisions\/8882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}