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1xbet online games login PROJECT PUTTING IPADS IN LOCAL MATH CLASSROOMS

MANHATTAN -- Kansas State University's department of curriculum and instruction is using a ,000 grant enhancement to purchase iPads for mathematics 1xbet online games login in local school districts.

The iPads will be used as a technological resource to enhance math lessons and instruction in the classroom.

The grant enhancement is additional financial support for a three-year, 0,000 grant through the U.S. Department of Education for a project focusing on teacher retention and increasing effective math teaching.

&1xbet online games login ;The original grant is designed to deepen and broaden the content knowledge of math teachers in Kansas -- in particular, the ones in K-State's professional development schools and partnership districts,&1xbet online games login ; said David Allen, associate professor of curriculum and instruction and one of the grant's project directors.

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&1xbet online games login ;We're taking our knowledge and disseminating it to these 33 teachers who have been working with us,&1xbet online games login ; he said. &1xbet online games login ;They'll go back to their schools and do the same thing so that we reach more teachers.&1xbet online games login ;

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&1xbet online games login ;Using certain software programs you can draw a triangle on an iPad, and you can manipulate the vertices,&1xbet online games login ; Allen said. &1xbet online games login ;What that does is change the angles on the triangle. So as kids touch the iPad, they can move the triangle into different configurations. They can then see the angles changing, but the sum of the angles always stays at 180 degrees.&1xbet online games login ;

Technical issues for using the iPads in the classroom are still being developed.

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&1xbet online games login ;That's what a university should do,&1xbet online games login ; he said. &1xbet online games login ;Rather than recognize we're an ivory tower where professors dictate what true knowledge is, we believe that we need to leave our offices, get into the schools and work with teachers where the rubber meets the road, and just say, 'what can we do to help?'&1xbet online games login ;

In addition to Allen, directors of the project at 1xbet online games login include Andrew Bennett, professor of mathematics; Melisa Hancock, instructor of curriculum and instruction; and Xuan Hien Nguyen, visiting assistant professor in mathematics.