Revised Project Description

We have to create a math program for the kindergarten class. Mrs. Lynch wants us to follow the guidelines established in the curriculum for ESL/Kindergarten. We have a copy of the curriculum for ourselves. The program needs to focus on two main areas: the concepts of Perimeter and Area, and the use of numbers and number manipulation. She has also been working with her students on pattern recognition and would like for us to incorporate that into our program. She also wants us to keep the numbers used in our program less than 10, though the students do recognize numbers in the teens. Working on shape orientation (recognizing that an upside down triangle is still a triangle, for example) is also a possibility. Since they recognize basic shapes, we could work on fitting shapes inside a bigger shape to learn area (ex: if 10 small squares fit into a rectangle, then the area would be 10).

The class has one computer period per week, and they are more mouse-oriented than keyboard-oriented, so our program will cater to that.

Finally, we have to keep in mind that these are ESL students. We need to keep the number of words used in this program down to a minimum, and use high-recognition words that the children can understand (ex: see, I, etc.) We might be able to incorporate slightly more difficult words as the children progress through the levels.

Mrs. Lynch also wants to be able to print windows.


Technical Issues/Authoring Tools:

As of right now, we're undecided as to what we will use. We plan to evaluate each of the tools available to us in the multimedia lab next week and decide what will be best for us.

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