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I never finished this but an opportunity to work on it has come up at uni so I'm going to redesign and finish it.

Aim

Help Y10/11 learners master binary maths techniques with emphasis on the questions that come up on OCR GCSE Computing Exams.

Usecases

• In classroom possibly with live competition
• At home / project time use
• Formative Assessment
• Feed-back and Feed-forward in exercises
• A multi question type summative mode ??
• Is a quick fire ipsative mode sensible ??

##Subject areas

• Binary Addition
• Binary -> Denary
• Denary -> Binary (conditional subtraction of column values method)
• Denary -> Binary (division and remainder method)
• Binary -> Hex
• Hex -> Binary

Strategies and justifications

1. Techniques and layouts based on paper based approaches - Relevant to exam
2. Asks random questions (so students can't copy from each other meaning they can help each other but not distribute answers)
3. Actively adapting to the skill levels of the learner whilst drawing them forward, using heuristics derived from exam marks schemes to pitch each subsequent question.
4. It can give hints if stuck - the mistake is highlighted and the nature of the mistake and what to do is shown
5. Scoring based on difficulty of question and number attempts taken and the heuristic score of the question
6. Exam scoring based on the first answer given to a question and the mark scheme marks available on that question - realistic
7. Accessible
8. Disability - 1. Dyslexia - font, font size, colour, layout 1. screen reader? 1. Answer entry - mouse click , keyboard, writing???
9. Language - simple English
10. Device agnostic / Cross Browser
    1. Raspberry Pi Browser
    2. Safari
    3. IE 10/11
    4. Chrome
    5. Firefox
    6. iOS
    7. Android web browser
    8. Firefox OS
    9. The tablets - Windows Surface
11. Prints out a paper based set of question matched to the student’s performance, to reinforce the link to exam performance
12. Recording in a way the teacher can see.
13. Records to a TinCan API Learning Record System ??
14. Possibly optionally run from a RPi?? local web server with Socket.io for live tracking 1. Would use names from RPi login user via a classroom launch script "sensible-browser http://whereitis/quiz?user=$USER"
15. I wonder if competition motivation might help (with due regard to not demotivating the ones struggling).

Pen entry would be awesome.