ScratchJr vs Teachley Connect

With ScratchJr, young children (ages 5-7) learn important new skills as they program their own interactive stories and games. By snapping together graphical programming blocks, children can make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. In the process, children learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively on the computer. They also use math and language in a meaningful and motivating context, supporting the development of early-childhood numeracy and literacy. With ScratchJr, children don’t just learn to code, they code to learn. ScratchJr was inspired by the popular Scratch programming language (http://scratch.mit.edu), used by millions of people (ages 8 and up) around the world. The ScratchJr interface and programming language were redesigned to make them appropriate for younger children’s cognitive, personal, social, and emotional development. ScratchJr is a collaboration between the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at the MIT Media Lab, the Developmental Technologies research group at Tufts University, and the Playful Invention Company. The ScratchJr project has received generous financial support from the National Science Foundation (NSF DRL-1118664), Scratch Foundation, LEGO Foundation, and British Telecommunications. If you enjoy using this free app, please consider making a donation to the Scratch Foundation (www.scratchfoundation.org), a nonprofit organization that provides ongoing support for ScratchJr. We appreciate donations of all sizes, large and small.

*Login with your premium Teachley account to unlock the app.* Designed for elementary schools that have partnered with Teachley, this app provides a single sign-on experience for students and teachers to sync their individual account or class roster to apps on the Teachley platform. Teachley math apps include award-winning Operations, Place Value & Money, and Fractions games: Addimals, Subtractimals, Mt. Multiplis, Fact Flyer, Market Bay, Fractions Boost, Fractions Boost 2, and Fractionators. Once synced to the Teachley Connect app, students can open any Teachley-connected math app and start playing. The apps will automatically personalize gameplay for students, allowing them to progress at their own pace, no matter which device they last used. Learning videos and eBooks on this app feature engaging math superheroes. In each story, the heroes use their math powers to trick the evil Professor Possum and save their planet. Each character represents a math practice standards (e.g. “Use Evidence”, “Be Persistent”) to help students become stronger mathematicians. Teachley Problem Solving provides digital modeling tools to support students in building deep understanding of fractions. Students easily see their own lived experiences within the relevant, contextualized problems. The rich, visual models support strong mathematical discussions in the classroom. At Teachley, we take student privacy issues very seriously. We do not share students’ personal information with other apps on our platform. About Teachley: Teachley, LLC is an award-winning edtech company founded by expert teachers with PhDs in cognitive science and funded by the U.S. Department of Education, National Science Foundation, and National Institutes of Health. Teachley is transforming education by promoting deep mathematical thinking and learning through fun and engaging games. Using formative assessment data from these games, we help schools and districts drive instruction and target interventions. www.teachley.com *This app was made possible by the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, with funding provided by the SBIR program.