Modmath: Struggling Math Students

Modmath Helps Students with Dysgraphia

101 Days of Free Tech for Teachers, Day 101
Modmath is an iPad app that allows students who struggle with handwriting to type out and solve their math problems via touchscreen. The touchscreen eliminates the handwriting hurdle and gives students with Dysgraphia the ability to keep up with their classmates. Students are able to keep multiple pages organized, and the keyboard allows students to work on simple to complex math problems. Modmath documents are easily sharable, which makes it easy for teachers to collect in-class work or homework from their students.

How We Decide Which Free Tech Tools to Feature
Yup, there are thousands of apps, tools, services, websites, and other offerings — many free — designed for teachers and students. So, how do we sort through all of those to feature the ones which are most useful and interesting? Well… we start by sorting through thousands of these things… then we talk to the presenters in the SimpleK12 Teacher Learning Community and watch their videos closely… then we talk to many of the members in the Teacher Learning Community, teachers just like you who are using these apps and tools day in and day out. We’ve been doing this for over 30 years and have, in that time, developed a sense for what’s good and bad. Have we missed something that we should feature here? Most certainly. So, let us know in the Comments section what we should take a look at and we’ll throw ’em into the hopper.

Carolina Fransen is the EdTech Apps and Tools Editor at SimpleK12.com. She writes regularly about the use of educational technology in K-12 classrooms. If you have an app, tool, website, or service that you think we should know about, please send your information or tip to editor@simplek12.com.