Trekins

“Trekins” is a sensory learning academic game which can be likened to a digital version of a hopscotch game.

Depending on the chosen board topics and academic content, students can practice spelling high frequency words or reinforce arithmetic skills such as counting or more challenging mental math calculations with up to three numbers. According to the given problem, students need to identify the correct track of tiles and travel from one tile to another in the right sequence. Depending of the student’s position each time, feedback is provided.

With this game, students can develop motor planning, coordination, timing, strategy and gross motor skills. In the simpliest iteration, the teacher can choose a board with just colors so that the children need to step on the tiles with the required color, thus improving visual perception, body control and balance. Difficulty levels, timer and the board characteristics according to learning goals can easily be adjusted by the teacher, which makes “Trekins” easy to integrate into many academic tasks.

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Supported goals in

Add up to four two-digit numbers using strategies based on place value and properties of operations.

Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10. Use strategies such as counting on; making ten (e.g., 8 + 6 = 8 + 2 + 4 = 10 + 4 = 14); decomposing a number leading to a ten (e.g., 13 - 4 = 13 - 3 - 1 = 10 - 1 = 9); using the relationship between addition and subtraction (e.g., knowing that 8 + 4 = 12, one knows 12 - 8 = 4); and creating equivalent but easier or known sums (e.g., adding 6 + 7 by creating the known equivalent 6 + 6 + 1 = 12 + 1 = 13).

Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.

Count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.

Spell grade-appropriate words correctly, consulting references as needed.

Count to 100 by ones and by tens.

Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.

Fluently add and subtract multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.

Spell grade-appropriate words correctly, consulting references as needed.

Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1).

Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic. Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction. (A range of algorithms may be used.)

Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic. Fluently add and subtract multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm. (Grade 4 expectations in this domain are limited to whole numbers less than or equal to 1,000,000. A range of algorithms may be used.)

Know number names and the count sequence. Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1).

Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract. Add up to four two-digit numbers using strategies based on place value and properties of operations.

Know number names and the count sequence. Count to 100 by ones and by tens.

Add and subtract within 20. Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10. Use strategies such as counting on; making ten (e.g., 8 + 6 = 8 + 2 + 4 = 10 + 4 = 14); decomposing a number leading to a ten (e.g., 13 – 4 = 13 – 3 – 1 = 10 – 1 = 9); using the relationship between addition and subtraction (e.g., knowing that 8 + 4 = 12, one knows 12 – 8 = 4); and creating equivalent but easier or known sums (e.g., adding 6 + 7 by creating the known equivalent 6 + 6 + 1 = 12 + 1 = 13).

Understand place value. Count within 1000; skip-count by 2s, 5s, 10s, and 100s.

Spell grade-appropriate words correctly, consulting references as needed.

Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.

Spell grade-appropriate words correctly, consulting references as needed.

Write a letter or letters for consonant and short‐vowel sounds (phonemes).

Rote count forward from a given number (instead of having to begin at 1)

Count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s

Skip count by tens up to 200

Add and subtract within 10, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 5

Rote count up to 100

Spell words correctly in writing, consulting references as needed.

Combine three two-digit numbers within 60

Solve multi-digit addition and subtraction problems within 1,000

Skip count by fives up to 100

Use the relationships between addition and subtraction to solve problems

Spell words correctly in writing, consulting references as needed.

Understand place value. Count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.