Math Slide vs Decodable Readers L5&6

Math Slide: Basic Facts is a multiplayer game helping children to learn addition, subtraction, multiplication & division basic number facts. Players play and learn by sliding tiles into the center to match an image, answer or equation. To progress and succeed at mathematics children need to be able to easily recall basic number facts. Math slide is a fun way to learn and practice this key skill. This School Edition can be used with Apple’s Volume Purchasing Program for Education VPP and contains the same games as Math Slide: add & subtract and Math Slide: multiply & divide. Features • Multiplayer game, suitable for one, two, three or four players • Games can be played in Competition Mode or Collaboration Mode • 20 games all focused on basic number facts • All games can be played unlimited times • Each game is a little harder than the previous game • The app focuses on a critical math concept vital for success How to play 1. Select Competition Mode or Collaboration Mode 2. Select a game to play 3. Players join the game by pressing the ‘Join’ button 4. Press ‘Start Game’, wait for the count down, then play 5. Slide a tile into the center to match the image, answer or equation 6. Once tiles are used the game ends Math focus of each game Addition & subtraction Game 1 – representing doubles & pairs to 10 Game 2 – doubles up to 10, pairs that equal 10 Game 3 – doubles up to 10, pairs that equal 10 Game 4 – representing number facts up to 10+10 Game 5 – addition facts up to 10+10 Game 6 – subtraction facts up to 10+10 Game 7 – addition & subtraction facts up to 10+10 Game 8 – number facts with answers to 20 Game 9 – pairs of number facts: 6 + 7 = 8 + ? Game 10 – triples of number facts: 6 + 5 + ? = 15 Multiplication & division Game 11 – 2x, 5x, 10x number facts Game 12 – 2x, ÷2, 5x, ÷5, 10x, ÷10 number facts Game 13 – 3x, 4x number facts Game 14 – 3x, ÷3, 4x, ÷4 number facts Game 15 – 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, x ÷ number facts Game 16 – 6x, ÷6 number facts Game 17 – 7x, ÷7 number facts Game 18 – 8x, ÷8 number facts Game 19 – 9x, ÷9 number facts Game 20 – 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, x ÷ number facts Maths Adventures Limited is a New Zealand company helping children learn mathematics. We develop apps that focus on the key concepts that need to be fully understood to progress and succeed in mathematics. Our apps range from learning to count up to understanding and using fractions and decimals, with each app focusing on one key concept. We believe: • Everyone can learn mathematics • Playing educationally rich games and apps improves understanding • Learning math should be fun and exciting, a rewarding adventure Math Slide is part of our ‘play and learn’ series, which are games high in educational value where children learn as they play. Our apps are research based and classroom tested to make sure they help children learn. We use the power of the iPad and technology to empower teachers and help children understand and learn key math concepts and to unravel misunderstandings.

The Decodable Readers Australia books support a systematic approach of learning to read. This approach ensures kids are given the “right-fit” book. Decodable, or phonic readers, only contain words made up of the sounds a child has learnt. Within each level in the Decodable Readers Australia Series, a new group of sounds is introduced. As children move through each level the sounds progress from simple to complex. The Decodable Readers Australia – Level 5 books introduce the sounds ai (trail), ay (play), ea (beach), ee (tree), ie (pie), igh (sight), oa (boat), ow (slow), ew (few), ue (cue). Our Level 6 books introduce the sounds oi (soil), oy (boy), oo (book), oo (moon), ou (loud), ow (cow), er (term), ir (stir), ur (turn), ar (star), or (for). All the words in each of the 20 books in Level 5/6 are made up of these sounds and those introduced in Level 1, 2, 3 and 4 along with minimal sight words. After having mastered the Level 1, 2, 3 and 4 sounds and the reading skills of blending and tracking, children should have gained the confidence to read Australian stories with new words and more text on each page. Each story in Level 5/6 can be enjoyed by listening to the professional audio or read aloud with the support of tapping and hearing the word if required. The audio function can be controlled independently within each page. Both parents and teachers can continue to support children with vocab and comprehension development through using the post-reading activities provided within each story. An addition to the Level 5/6 readers are the wide range of pre-reading activities that can be used to help set the purpose for reading.