Drill and Practice
Drill and practice promotes the acquisition of knowledge or skill through repetitive practice. It refers to small tasks such as the memorization of arithmetic facts and may also be found in more online simulated community games. Drill and practice, like memorization, involves repetition of specific skills, such as addition and subtraction. Drill and practice is especially helpful to students with learning disabilities and must be allowed to develop skill at a personal pace.
Instructional software presents tasks for students to work on, most commonly one at a time, and gives immediate feedback and/or corrections. These programs are designed to help learners remember facts and concepts. This type of software can be obtained as audio or video and text with feedback. The benefits from these programs are the immediate feedback and they motivate students to continue working towards success.
Advantage: The drill-and-practice design requires students to respond frequently during the lessons, provided feedback to students on their responses, and kept detailed records of student performance.
Drill and Practice (Skill Practice) Drill and Practice software allows learners to work problems or answer questions and receive feedback on their correctness. Programs may vary on the type of feedback provided in conjunction with the learner's input.
Drill functions include:
Software:
Additional Websites:
Adapted Mind is a free site where children can practice their counting and number recognition.
Counting-http://www.adaptedmind.com/p.php?tagId=1#
A plus math has this free section that using flash cards to help children learn addition and subtraction by practicing and memorization.
Addition-http://www.aplusmath.com/Flashcards/Subtraction.html
The world of math online is a free site where children can practice arithmetic using repetition.
Subtraction-http://www.math.com/students/practice/arithmeticpractice.htm
Primary games.com allow children to practice with a clock and learn how to tell time.
Time clock-http://www.primarygames.com/time/start.htm
Math practice is a free site for k-8 can practice mathematics.
All Math problems- http://www.theproblemsite.com/mathgames.asp
Drill and practice promotes the acquisition of knowledge or skill through repetitive practice. It refers to small tasks such as the memorization of arithmetic facts and may also be found in more online simulated community games. Drill and practice, like memorization, involves repetition of specific skills, such as addition and subtraction. Drill and practice is especially helpful to students with learning disabilities and must be allowed to develop skill at a personal pace.
Instructional software presents tasks for students to work on, most commonly one at a time, and gives immediate feedback and/or corrections. These programs are designed to help learners remember facts and concepts. This type of software can be obtained as audio or video and text with feedback. The benefits from these programs are the immediate feedback and they motivate students to continue working towards success.
Advantage: The drill-and-practice design requires students to respond frequently during the lessons, provided feedback to students on their responses, and kept detailed records of student performance.
Drill and Practice (Skill Practice) Drill and Practice software allows learners to work problems or answer questions and receive feedback on their correctness. Programs may vary on the type of feedback provided in conjunction with the learner's input.
Drill functions include:
- Flash card activity - basic drill and practice function, similar to real world flash cards
- Chart fill-in activities - learners fill in an entire set of answers by completing a chart on a timed basis
- Branching drill - more sophisticated form of practice where students advance through different levels of questions after they get a selected number of questions correct to display their mastery of a skill
- Extensive feedback activities - students receive detailed feedback on why they got a problem wrong. This drill is usually reserved for practice after instruction.
Software:
- A+ Math offers interactive games, flashcards, and worksheets for work on- and off-line.
- Chemistry Drill and Practice Tutorials is an example of interactive on-line drill and practice.
- SuperKids Math Worksheet Creator allows teachers to create math worksheets on-line then print them for use with their students.
- StudyStack allows teachers to locate flashcards on a variety of subjects or create their own for further practice.
Additional Websites:
Adapted Mind is a free site where children can practice their counting and number recognition.
Counting-http://www.adaptedmind.com/p.php?tagId=1#
A plus math has this free section that using flash cards to help children learn addition and subtraction by practicing and memorization.
Addition-http://www.aplusmath.com/Flashcards/Subtraction.html
The world of math online is a free site where children can practice arithmetic using repetition.
Subtraction-http://www.math.com/students/practice/arithmeticpractice.htm
Primary games.com allow children to practice with a clock and learn how to tell time.
Time clock-http://www.primarygames.com/time/start.htm
Math practice is a free site for k-8 can practice mathematics.
All Math problems- http://www.theproblemsite.com/mathgames.asp
