Kim's Komet
(from The Adventures of Jasper Woodbury Math Series)
Description: Video-based real-life contextualized, anchored instruction adventures that focus on mathematical problem finding and problem solving.
The CD-ROM contains a short (approximately 17 minute) video adventure that ends in a complex challenge. The adventures are designed like good detective novels where all the data necessary to solve the adventure (plus additional data that are not relevant to the solution) are embedded in the story.
The Jasper adventures present a believable story that has interesting characters, a complex and important challenge, and extensions to a variety of curricular areas. To solve the challenge, the students use problem-solving skills, mathematics concepts and skills, and the CD-ROM to find information that was presented as part of the story.
Jasper adventures also contain "embedded teaching" episodes that provide models of particular approaches to solving problems. These episodes can be revisited on a "just-in-time" basis as students need them to solve the challenges.
Level: Grades 5 and up
Purpose: Provides multiple opportunities for problem solving, reasoning, communication and making connections to other areas such as science, social studies, literature, and history. Each adventure is designed from the perspective of the standards recommended by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).
List of Challenge titles:
- Complex Trip Planning
- Journey to Cedar Creek (grade 5 and up)
- Rescue at Boone's Meadow (grade 5 and up)
- Get Out the Vote (grade 7 and up)
- Statistics and Business Plans
- The Big Splash (grade 5 and up)
- Bridging the Gap (grade 6 and up)
- A Capital Idea (grade 6 and up)
- Geometry
- Blueprint for Success (grade 5 and up)
- The Right Angle (grade 6 and up)
- The Great Circle Race (grade 6 and up)
- Algebra
- Working Smart (grade 7 and up)
- Kim's Komet (grade 7 and up)
- The General is Missing (grade 8 and up)
Platform: One episode includes 1 Teacher CD-ROM, 1 Classroom Version CD-ROM, 1 VHS videotape of episode, 1 teacher training manual
Manufacturer:
Learning Sciences Institute
Vanderbilt University
Peabody #59
230 Appleton Place
Nashville, TN 37203
Phone: 615.322.8070
Fax: 615.343.7556
www.vanderbilt.edu/lsi
peabody.vanderbilt.edu/projects/funded/jasper/Jasperhome.html
Distributor:
www.directtextbook.com/prices/1570040370
NO LIMIT! Grant Licensing Information: (per classroom)
1 per teacher computer