For the purpose of a maths lesson in my school placement, I decided to created some digital images. They were learning how to write formulas for subtracting from 10 (e.g. 10-3=7). I constructed an initial task of manipulation to help children understand this. This involved children rolling a dice and placing this number of people in the bus. They would then calculate how many of the ten people were left outside.
To the right is the bus I created in paint. I used this mostly by using the shape functions. I felt I needed to create the stereotypical representation of it in order for children to recognise it.
As I needed 10 seats, I chose to create a double-decker bus. As shown, I initally used a cut out of a image I found on the internet for the bus driver. However, when i went to enlarge the image it was blurred. Instead, I decided to create all characters myself.
Here is the characters I created in paint. For practicality, I created the images large and then cropped them to fit in the bus. The task was made quicker by my ability to copy and paste the two children to create multiple passengers.
The finished product:
