Represent with Visuals

How I Use It

I used this app with 1st grade students to practice number sense. Students used images to create different ways to represent the number 7. They followed the visual representations with numeric representations. For example: six pictures of a duck and one picture of a horse. 6+1=7 As the students began to add more and more representations, both visual and numerical, they began to develop a sense of spatial awareness. How large or small to make the visuals and the numerals, became a point of interest and concern for the students. It's always good to see other pieces of the curriculum naturally and authentically blend into an activity. A challenge for some students was "spelling" for image searches. They were also easily distracted by the number of images available to them in a single search. I found that while working with my second and third groups, it was better to make a generic list of topics for them to search for.