MathTappers: ClockMaster for Android

11 things about MathTappers: ClockMaster

1. MathTappers: ClockMaster is a game designed to help children make the connection between hours and minutes and to help them become fluent in both reading and setting time on digital clocks, number-word clocks, and analog clocks.

2. MathTappers: ClockMaster offers both a practice mode to support exploration and tutoring activities and a game mode to help players to become fluent in both reading and setting time on digital, analog, and number-word clocks.

3. The ‘Number-Words’ version represents the words that might typically be spoken by someone who has mastered the Analog clock when describing the time.

4. It is expected that this second mode will be most helpful after players have mastered the relationship between the Analog clock and the Digital clock.

5. When the minute hand is missing the child can focus on the relationship between the hour hand and the hours and minutes shown on the digital clock.

6. The ‘Normal Analog’ version is a traditional clock face with minute and hour hands while the ‘Broken’ clock shows only the hour hand (with the minute hand broken off).

7. The designers of the MathTappers Apps are math educators and researchers seeking to create simple games that will help learners to make sense of mathematics one concept at a time.

8. We have designed MathTappers apps to support students in learning mathematics by providing relevant visual models, focused content linked games and helpful suggestions for parents and educators.

9. Children need explicit opportunities to work with clocks to discover how the system we use to tell and record time works.

10. Players may choose the types of clocks that are presented on the screen and which clock will be set during the game (top or bottom).

11. Although some aspects of time may be mastered incidentally as children experience circumstances where elapsed time and time of day are used to compare or plan, this type understanding is generally incomplete.