Visual Multiplication Table App

I may not do a lot with teaching math in my job, but this app I will share with a number of my special education teachers as another tool to help special needs students understand multiplication.

Visual Multiplication Table app for iPad only is currently free. One of her many educational math apps, Esa Helttula provides visual and interactive methods of understanding multiplication in her Visual Multiplication Table app.

The app provides four different ways to work with a multiplication table:

– Table: Explore the multiplication tables.
– Groups: See the multiplications as visualizations.
– Multiples: See how each number has an unlimited number of multiples.
– Solve: Scramble and solve the multiplication table. I could image this as an alternative, inclusion lesson for students being exposed to multiplication. This might be a method a student with a physical disability who can not physically manipulate objects can engage in multiplication concepts.

Help for how the app works is easily accessible with the ? at the bottom left if you are not quite sure what to do. The app is easy to navigate and easy to engage in.

One of the wonderful things about apps on an iDevice is its low scale presence in a classroom. As an inclusionary method, students can remain at their desk and engage in a content appropriate activity with minimal start-up time! Certainly there are other manipulative ways to present multiplication concepts that may be important for a kinesthetic learner. For a special education teacher moving from class to class, apps on an iPad become a wonderful eTool Kit for all kinds of educational needs (eBag of Tricks?) and in almost any environment.

Here is a video of the app:

Currently free, check out Visual Multiplication Table app and consider if this will become an eTool in your iTool Kit or eBag of Tricks! If you won’t be using it, pass it on to a teacher who might! If you like this app, Esa Helttula also has a variety of educational math apps on her website, idevbooks.com you might want explore.

More for your eTool or iTool Kit!

Carol

About Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

OTR/L with more than 35 years experience in pediatrics, school based therapy and adult rehabilitation. Masters of Science in Adaptive Education/Assistive Technology with 20 years experience in AT in education of elementary, middle school, secondary, post secondary students and work environments for adult clients. A RESNA Assistive Technology Practitioner with ACVREP CATIS credentials, AOTA Specialty Certification in Low Vision, USC Davis Executive Certificate in Home Modifications, servicing adults and students with disabilities in employment, education, and home environments. A 2020 graduate of the University of Alabama Birmingham Low Vision Certification Program.

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Posted on August 11, 2012 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

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1 Response to Visual Multiplication Table App

Rhona Finkel (@Abitofthisand) says:

August 23, 2012 at 4:13 pm

I particularly like this well-done post with an excellent selection since I started my adult life as a math-science teacher, with a side in the resource room, and at times we would tear our hear out trying to help the students really comprehend, rather than memorize, what they were doing with multiplication. There was touch math and stories and counters and beans–but here, in a different lifetime, an app can do more for those children who struggled than all our standing-on-our-head efforts. Helpful video, too.