Méadú is an interactive multiplication table that helps children learn up to their 12 times tables.
A device that creates interactive maths lessons for primary school children designed by a product designer from Blessington has been named the winner of the Irish James Dyson Award.
Méadú is an interactive multiplication table that helps children learn up to their 12 times tables. Designed by Paul Hendrick, a Wicklow-born product design graduate from Technological University Dublin, the device is designed to fill the gap in physical maths resources for older primary school groups and put students that suffer from 'Maths Anxiety' at ease.
According to Hendrick, here's how the device works:
Méadú (May-Do) aims to aid in curbing the development of maths anxiety through providing more interactive and engaging mathematics lessons for students aged between 7 to 12. The board primarily functions as an interactive multiplication table for children to learn up to their 12 times tables. The central board can be removed to uncover a maths fact sheet for use during lessons and flipped to reveal a whiteboard that offers open-ended functionality. The whiteboard when combined with the boards sliders allows children to plot points, construct shapes, create graphs etc. Without the sliders it offers a space for rough work when solving problems.
Hendrick will now advance to the international competition where Méadú will compete with winners from 28 other national rounds for a prize of up to €33,000. As winner of the national round of the competition, he also receives €5,800 to help further develop his project and improve the device.
Paul Hendrick tells us why he started developing this project:
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