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Place Shape vs. Place Value: A visual foundation for math

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Place Shape vs. Place Value: A visual foundation for math

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What do decimal place values actually mean: thousands, hundreds, tens, ones? Let us show you their shape and you can determine the value. Four- and five-year-olds can do it, how ‘bout you? Get a glimpse into the fantabulous payoff of learning to subQuan. Come enjoy a math topic that doesn’t involve much thinking because your eyes do most of the work.

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Dream Realizations is a 501(c)(3) Educational Support Services Organization designed to facilitate colleges, universities, and other entities in need of virtual world math support. We offer classes, training, and research design. Visit our website:

D. Cooper Patterson, aka Cooper Macbeth, is our rogue cognitive engineer. He doesn’t know how to think in a box, because he never had one. With an Electrical Engineering background and 20 years in Silicon Valley solving complex computer problems, Cooper is ready to take on the difficulties plaguing the U.S. educational system: mathematics. Our resident R&D man, Second Life scripter and builder, and all around good guy.

Rebecca Reiniger, aka Ute Frenburg, is our creative educational coordinator and founder of Dream Realizations. She is passionate about her desire to help people realize that they can see. With a background in math and German teaching and 10 years observing education from K-12, she can see a bigger picture of the implications of not understanding mathematics.

Anne-Marie Robertson, aka Alexsis Kamala, is our intrepid educational technologist. With a background in accounting, mathematics education, and online teaching, she boldly pushes the boundaries, extracts clarity from her team, and exudes a love of learning that is unsurpassed.

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Place Shape vs. Place Value : Place Shape vs. Place Value A visual foundation for math A Dream Realizations Presentation with Cognitive Engineering Research Laboratories

PowerPoint Presentation : http://www.brothersoft.com/free-rainbow-screensaver-76363.html Dialog modified from the movie Kate & Leopold (2001) climate.met.psu.edu

CEO of Dream Realizations - Rebecca Reiniger : CEO of Dream Realizations - Rebecca Reiniger Alexsis (Anna-Marie), Cooper, and Ute (Rebecca) in Second Life.

Creative Director of CERLabs - Cooper Patterson : Creative Director of CERLabs - Cooper Patterson What is cognitive engineering? www.osdata.com/system/physical/basics.htm Functional brain map from Science Daily by Daniel Oldjira Fufa.

Where is the world headed with numbers? : Where is the world headed with numbers?

Single digit numbers of popular number systems : Single digit numbers of popular number systems binary 0 g number system 1 h 2 i 3 j 4 k 5 l 6 m 7 n decimal 8 o number system 9 p a q b r c s d t hexadecimal e u number system f v duotridecimal* number system is the entire single digit set shown. * also called duotrigesimal

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Place Value... : Place Value... Very abstract relationship for youngsters.

PowerPoint Presentation : 11 9 12 8 14 6 20 5 10 A 22 4 101 3 1010 2 13 7 The Tens

PowerPoint Presentation : nine eight six five ten four three two seven The One-Ro's

PowerPoint Presentation : The Hundreds 100 A 121 9 144 8 202 7 244 6 400 5 1210 4

PowerPoint Presentation : The subQuan four three one two is composed of: 4 Cubes, 3 Squares, 1 Seg, and 2 Ones

PowerPoint Presentation : Cognitive engineering perspective H O W M A N Y ?

PowerPoint Presentation : Each Place Value also shows Shape. The best part is that it works in ALL bases, not just base ten.

Place Shape! : Place Shape!

PowerPoint Presentation : If we verbalize the subQuan Algebraically: 4 ten Cubes, 3 ten Squares, 1 ten Seg, and 2 Ones

PowerPoint Presentation : Compare the previous visual image to this excerpt from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positional_notation Try describing this to an elementary student!

PowerPoint Presentation : Excerpt from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positional_notation

Great. We have a foundation based on Place Shapes. What can one build on place shapes? : Great. We have a foundation based on Place Shapes. What can one build on place shapes?

"We are here" : "We are here" Visit us in Second Life to experience the full effect of 3D visualization.