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School: Vartan Gregorian Fox Point Elementary School

Teacher: Karen DiPrete

Audience: 3rd Grade Mathematics

Project: Ms. DiPrete has her students do a "Mad Minute" of multiplication everyday, in which they work through a series of multiplication tables (for 1 minute each), and then do 30 mixed problems (also for 1 minute). Afterwards the students work on 100 problems and try to answer them correctly as fast as possible. The project is to design and build a program that students can use for these exercises that would be more engaging, challenging and effective than the current paper and pencil medium, and Ms. DiPrete is also considering having the program include division problems as well. Possible tools include Authorware, Director, and HTML/Java.