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Computer resources that motivate children!

We live in a world surrounded by technology and the students we have in the future will have been born submerged in this age where we can not understand the world without a computer or a mobile phone. As teachers we have to reflect what is happening in society when it comes to teaching our students as it is the only way to prepare them for life.
Taking these facts into account, I think it would be illogical not to take advantage of the tools offered by the computers, mobiles, Internet ... So it would be ideal to use these resources with many different objectives.
The main objective that I would have would be to compensate for the greater deficit that mathematics has in the centers of our country: MOTIVATION.
We all know that students find it much more attractive than being listened to the teacher while he explains on the board and then they all do exercise 1, 2 and 3 of the textbook. So if we overcome that barrier and we managed to find the applications needed to understand the concepts and also have a good time would be much easier to continue learning.
On the other hand, these applications allow us to visualize in a much clearer way the different figures and operations, so they will have a greater facility to understand what they have to do.
Among the useful features of computer resources is the possibility of attending to the different learning rhythms and the different levels of which each part and to which it should arrive. Particularly in the offers aimed at online learning, an organization and content of the learning units that facilitate their use from any level, which makes it possible to easily retrieve content that is not sufficiently learned and which favours an easy adjustment of the learning pace.
Another positive point is that they encourage creativity among young people, since it allows experimenting in many ways with the ease of putting back, delete, copy, etc. So thanks to the curiosity that awakens the possibility of creating and constructing, it will simplify the assimilation of mathematical concepts.
In the network we can find a great variety of resources that will make life much easier for us and the students, among which we can highlight some free ones such as GeoGebra, MundoPrimaria or Khan Academy, although I will speak more in depth about Some of those resources in another post.





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