Math Snacks

Smart and yummy educational animations, mini–games, and interactive tools that help mid-school learners better understand math concepts.

Scale Ella

Scale Ella includes:

Learner's Guide | Teacher's Guide | video (below)

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The evil Scaleo has escaped from prison and is transforming the length, width, and height of objects until they become useless... or dangerous.

Who can put things right? Our super heroine, Scale Ella, uses the power of scale factor to foil the villain.

Scale Ella addresses number and operations standards and the process standard, as established by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). It guides students in:

Using factors, multiples, prime factorization, and relatively prime numbers to solve problems.
Developing, analyzing, and explaining methods for solving problems involving proportions, such as scaling and finding equivalent ratios.

Using factors, multiples, prime factorization, and relatively prime numbers to solve problems.

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