The MultiMatch decks we had previously published have been gathered again, and are now available from the following links. Thank you for you patience while things are being revived.

Colourful Things
Triangle
Clock Match
Chinese Colors
Chinese Numbers 1-100
Geometry Chinese-English (elementary geometry terms)
Measurement Chinese-English (elementary measurement terms)
Recognize Fractions
Subitize 2-6
Subitize 4-10

Tapping the deck name while in a browser on your iPad will download it. From your downloads you can open it with the MathTappers:MultiMatch app (you may need to select 'open in' and choose 'MathTappers:MultiMatch'). It will then be added to MultiMatch

When a child is working with these decks, you might ask them to explain what they are doing, ask them about their strategies, or ask them how they might improve the decks. Then if they are interested, you might download and edit/remix a deck, add in a note explaining your change and send it back to us. Note that you can create your own deck files too!

Joshua Smith has volunteered to take responsibility for the maintenance and improvement of the MathTappers suite of apps. Smith, an experienced and very talented software engineer, began writing apps for MathTappers more than 15 years ago. Since that time he has worked to maintain all the MathTappers apps. We're excited for the future of MathTappers.

We created a few new MultiMatch decks to use while we were teaching in China.   To download them, please select the "MultiMatch Decks" link to the right.  Feel free to download and use them, or even remix/enhance them.

Chinese-Numbers-1-100
Chinese-Colors
Geometry-Chinese-English (elementary geometry terms)
Measurement-Chinese-English (elementary measurement terms)
Recognize Fractions

We are pleased to announce our ninth MathTappers app  

 MathTappers: FindAngle! 

An app to help you build your angle estimation skills.





This app was developed in collaboration with a student after he chose to create an app for Tim's Interactive Multimedia course.  We provided him with a design for a simple learning app, and he was able to build a nice working prototype in just a few weeks. 




After the course was done we contracted with him to refine the app to match our other MathTappers apps and publish the app on both the Google Play store (for Android) and the  iOS App store (see the links on the right) - and today the app is  live on both of these stores.


Now he is joining us as a co-author as we write a paper about the development process used.

Note that we just recently surpassed 5,000,000 downloads on all of our MathTappers apps, and they are all still free, ad free, and up-sell free 

Nov 27, 2017
Simple Game-based 
Learning Apps: 
Principles for Design and Use



If you want to see the video go here

SmartShow – The International Educational IT Solutions Expo 2017

Introducing MathTappers: MultiMatch

Our newest learning app for the iPad.

It's a simple matching game app that lets you create and load your own decks. Please check it out!

Cards can have more than one image, and sets can have 1, 2, 3, or more cards.
And if you visit the MultiMatch decks page on the right you can make your own!

Ongoing effort to validate our MathTapper Apps
Paper: "Developing Analog Clock Mastery by Integrating Lessons and Apps"
PDF of Powerpoint Presentation
Presented at CSSE/TATE May 29, 2016

Presented at NCTM 2013

Saturday, April 20, 2013
9:30 AM-10:30 AM   
203 (Convention Center)

Lead Speaker:  Leslee Francis Pelton
Co-Speaker:  Timothy W. Pelton

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See how students can quickly and efficiently create comics, videos, and animations on their iPads to show what they know and how they know it. We will share examples from number sense, ratio and proportion, geometry, and measurement.

View a PDF version of the presentation  

Presented at NCTM 2013

Friday, April 19, 2013  
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM   
Mile High 2 C

Lead Speaker: Timothy W. Pelton 
Co-Speaker: Leslee Francis Pelton 

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Many educational apps exist for the iPad, but finding apps that go beyond drill and practice is difficult. We will share apps that offer opportunities for students to explore, reason, discuss, and understand mathematical concepts and that support consolidation and practice. We will also share strategies for classroom use of iPads.

Presentation Format: 3-5 Session
Grade Band Audience: 6 to 8, 3 to 5

50th Anniversary Deans' Lecture Series Spring 2013 Legacy Art Gallery Lecture: What's New in Education? Education—There is an App for That Wednesday, April 10: 7 to 8:30 pm, Legacy Gallery, 630 Yates Street Tablets, ebooks and apps—what are they bringing to the classroom that isn't already there? How will these new tools help children learn? How can teachers, parents and others use them to support 21st century learning? Speakers: Tim Pelton, PhD and Leslee Francis-Pelton, PhD and Chair, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, UVic. Click here to view a pdf of the presentation file.

Hey, I finally revised my first iBook.  I wrote it to see if I could help children (and adults) master measurement.  This is just the first of a series that I hope to create.

Measuring Length: Centimetres - As I understand it, you can only download it onto iBooks on an iPod, iPhone or iPad.

Did I mention it was free?

Check out our article in THE Journal:
Seven strategies for using iOS devices in Math class

We are heading out to ISTE this coming week.  We have a few opportunities to share our MathTapper apps and some strategies that we have collected as we have used them in the classroom.  

Our main presentation is:

Ten Strategies for Effective Use of iPods in Math Class
Wednesday, 6/27/2012, 10:15am–11:15am, SDCC 30CD - but it is sold out

We will post a summary of our strategies after the presentation - for now please download our apps, so that you are prepared.  Just search for Mathtappers on iTunes.  (Note that they are all free and have no ads or in-app purchases!)

We will also be presenting at:

SIGGS Games and Simulations Arcade
Monday, 6/25/2012, 8:00am–12:00pm,  SDCC Sails Pavilion

MathTappers: Apps for iOS Devices
Tuesday, 6/26/2012, 1:00pm–3:00pm,  SDCC Halls DE Lobby , Table: 18

SIGML Mobile Learning Playground
Wednesday, 6/27/2012, 9:00am–10:00am,  SDCC Sails Pavilion

We have had a lot of fantastic feedback when we meet folks who are using our apps -and we appreciate it!  If you want to give them a boost - please rate them for us.

I used iBooks Author to create an iBook.  It is designed to help children understand what length is, and to help them to build a collection of useful referents for centimetres - but it will work best if there is an adult beside the child encouraging, questioning and supporting  them through the exploration.

You may download it to your iPad (that is the only place you can use it right now) by clicking on the link below.  It is about 14 MB in size, so it may take a couple of minutes.  When it is finished downloading - open it in iBooks.

http://web.uvic.ca/~tpelton/MeasuringLengthcm.ibooks

Share it with a child and share it with your friends!

Send me feedback (tpelton@uvic.ca)

We had two great presentations today at NCTM.

The first was focused on using MathTapper apps to support learning in K-5 classrooms, while the second  presentation was focused on learning in middle school classrooms.

Please remember to rate our apps if you download them.  Good ratings mean that they float into view when others go looking for math apps.

Thanks!

We have had good success with our MathTapper apps - 7 on the store and many more to come. As we share these with our colleagues in the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria, we (collectively) see the potential for many other similarly useful learning apps - apps that are designed to help children make sense in various domains.

In response to this we have started designing apps for Science (ScienceTappers) and Language arts (WordTappers).