Graspable Math

Description:

Graspable Math - At its core, Graspable Math is symbols, the same symbols you probably used in Algebra. However, these symbols move. They react to your touch, and they respond with what they think you want them to do-as long as what you want is legal mathematics.

Graspable Math enables a new approach to working with symbolic expressions—arithmetic and algebraic notation. Graspable Math focuses attention on what's going on in these symbolic expressions, instead of getting rules or calculations exactly right. Graspable Math treats symbolic expressions as things you can look at, touch, and experience. This approach supports discovery and inquiry, and we think it fosters a sense of wonder and an immediate feeling of meaning—a much richer experience of algebra, in other words. This is not meant to compete with, but to complement, the precise learning of rules, and learning the ways symbols have meaning.