After a month of international conferences and dissemination activities, RUB’s main goal in June was to get ready for conducting the first summative evaluation trial in a German school. Together with the school, we determined that July would be a good time in the fractions curriculum for students to learn with the iTalk2Learn program. July…
In this post, RUB outline findings from tests on the latest version of iTalk2Learn! One of the challenges in learning fractions is that you need to have both a good grasp of the concepts behind fractions, and the skills to calculate with fractions. What challenges are we trying to overcome? One concept that may be…
The translation of Fractions Tutor from English into German is almost complete! As well as translating the buttons and the exercises directly, the iTalk2Learn partners have given cultural adaptation a lot of attention in order to result in a truly effective German version. What sort of problems have been discovered and overcome? At first, Ruhr…