Practice2Master Abacus vs Visual LightPad

An abacus is a tool used to perform mathematical calculations and is widely accepted as a helpful learning aid for students. However, the learning curve can be challenging not only for many students but also for teachers and parents. Practice2Master Abacus helps address this learning difficulty by making abacus learning an interactive experience. This app allows students to take lessons, practice skills, and monitor their progress by completing quizzes and drills, all at their own pace. The Practice2Master Abacus app can be used as a supplement to classroom instructions in which teachers can assign practice tasks or drills to students. It may also be used as a self-learning tool that includes systematic instructions and practice to help students start from the basics and become proficient abacus users. Not only is this app a great tool for students, but it can also be used as a reliable reference for teachers and parents who need to refresh themselves on abacus calculations. Features/Benefits: • Twenty-two progressively ordered short lessons on how to use an abacus to do addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division • Abacus operations that are explained in great details using purposefully chosen examples • Patterns of hand and finger movements that take into consideration the learning characteristics of young students and students with visual impairments • Full compatibility with screen readers; high-contrast colors and large print letters and numbers • The ability to practice what you learned in lessons using app-created problems or problems created by your teachers • Dynamic assistance from the app during practice • Progress monitoring through lesson quizzes and drills • Quiz or drill reports for personal reference or to send to teachers • Customized problem lists that teachers can create and send to students for practice or drill. • On-screen abacus for calculation operations

Visual LightPad creates a bright illuminated surface for developing visual perceptual and visual motor skills in people with visual impairment. It's a cheaper alternative to expensive, dedicated hardware visual impairment light boxes. Think of it as a digital light box! Adjust Visual LightPad's brightness and color, then place semi transparent toys, numbers or letters on the iPad's screen. Where colors become difficult, open the color picker and change the background color to something that accentuates the toys. Where hardware light boxes can be associated with work, iPads tend to be associated with play. Visual LightPad helps develop awareness to color and light, but using objects also helps in the development of visual perceptual skills, hand eye coordination, and both visual scanning and tracking. Visual LightPad can also be used for; - Reading content printed onto acetate - Providing a reading backlight when paper documents are placed on top of it - Photo negative illumination - Sensory / mood lighting Visual LightPad is purposefully easy to use and relatively low on features. It supports presets for easy saving and recall of preferred settings. It is designed to run on iPad, but also runs on iPhone - meaning you can keep a small light box in your pocket at all times.