Overview

Curator: Atoya Martin

Name & Link to Tech Tool or Tool homepage: HoodaMath
Brief Description of Tech Tool: HoodaMath is a math portal with over 500 math games
that are linked to the Common Core State Standards. Games can be sorted by grade
level, math subject or game type. HoodaMath has recently designed many html5 mobile
games to be played on iPads, Kindles and Chrome tablets.
Technical & Cost considerations: HoodaMath is free and it can be assessed from
desktops/laptops and mobile devices.
Evaluation
Description of Learning Activity
HoodaMath games will be played by students online during practice times or at home
for additional homework. Particular game categories will be chosen for students
depending on what CCSS standard needs to be worked on by them.
1. Learning Activity Types
LA-Practice - practicing for uency
LA-Explore - exploring/investigating mathematical ideas
LA-Apply - applying mathematics to problems and situations
2. What mathematics is being learned?
NCTM Standards
NCTM-N&0-understand numbers - understand numbers, ways of representing
numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems;
NCTM-N&0-understand operations - understand meanings of operations and
how they relate to one another;
NCTM-N&0-compute fluently - compute fluently and make reasonable
estimates
NCTM-Alg-patterns - understand patterns, relations, and functions;
NCTM-Alg-symbols - represent and analyze mathematical situations and
structures using algebraic symbols;
NCTM-Alg-models - use mathematical models to represent and understand
quantitative relationships;
NCTM-Alg-change - analyze change in various contexts.
Prociency Strands
PS-conceptual understanding
PS-procedural uency
PS-strategic competence
3. How is the mathematics represented?
The math is presented through several gaming options. Some of the options include puzzles,
math computation and others require logic and sense making.
4. What role does technology play?
Technology provides the gaming platform for this website. Students will have access to video
games that reinforce and introduce math concepts. This site has an advantage of appealing to the
gaming desires of students while still focusing on content.
Affordances of Technology for Supporting Learning
Computing & Automating -
Representing Ideas & Thinking - Figuring how to advance to the next level in each
game.
Accessing Information -
Communicating & Collaborating -
Capturing & Creating -
5. How does the technology t or interact with the social
context of learning?
All games are for individual student use. Some of the games are not very clear, which
can lead to the opportunity for students to discuss and learn how to navigate the games
while practicing peer support.
6. What do teachers and learners need to know?
Teachers need to know how to navigate the 500 games and select ones that are
appropriate. The site does offer a search feature, however this search does not return
visual results like the home page of HoodaMath. Teachers will have to decipher the
games based on titles and not the familiar icons.