Students with math disabilities can struggle to achieve automaticity with important information such as visual-spacial organization, math concepts and word problems (Dell, Newton,& Petroff, 2012). Automaticity, or math fact fluency, refers to the fast and accurate processing of content information. Educational applications focused on math allow students to develop math fact fluency more easily. When math educational applications are fun and motivating, students are more focused and task oriented.
The following technologies can be used to help build automaticity:
FASTT Math (Fluency & Automaticity through Systematic Teaching with Technology)
-Evaluates students knowledge of math facts by measuring response time then generates customized activities
-Activities are designed to strengthen memorization of math facts to decrease reliance on counting strategies to solve problems
-Program generates reports for teachers to track progress
Timez Attack
-Focuses on multiplication facts through the use of a high-tech video game environment
ArithmAttack
-Allows students to practice basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts
-Customized problems sets enable students to focus on their areas of need
Arcademic Skill Builder Math Games
-Designed to help build automaticity in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, integers, fractions, and ratios
-Include single player and multi-player online games with customizable features
Dell, A., Newton, D., & Petroff, J. (2012). Assistive technology in the classroom. Boston:
MA: Pearson.
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