I have to admit, I was skeptical when I looked at the URL, http://www.carinsurancecalculatoronline.com/math-resources/, car insurance calculator online, but when I looked at the page, it does have a nice selection of math resources. Not sure what is up with that URL, but I’d be changing it. Anyday, check this sight out if you are looking for Math resources.
Jessica Caviness, a geometry teacher in Coppell, Texas, joined Alan for a discussion about her use of Twitter to connect her students with applications of math in the “real world.” Through her math activities, students are engaging with Jessica about math at home, in the community and really anywhere in the world. We invite you to listen to the podcast and also to read Alan and Brian’s supporting article, How Twitter Can Be Used as a Powerful Educational Tool.
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Math Champ is a real time student response system to encourage social play in the classroom. Math Champ was a runner up in this years Desire2Learn Edge Challenge and is changing the way kids think about math classroom.
If you’d like to take a look at it, give me a shout and I’ll send a promo over.
And a quick start guide
http://www.inkids.com.au/2012/08/math-champ-quick-start-guide/
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HostMath is a web-based editor for mathematical formulas. It uses WYSIWYG-style editing and allows creating mathematical equations through simple point-and-click techniques. You can send complex math expressions over email and IM, without requiring any special software.
Accepts standard LaTeX and Tex input with AMS extensions, and also support ASCIIMath input. To learn how to use LaTeX, see here. To learn how to use AMS extensions, see here. To learn how to use ASCIIMath, see here.
There are two types of equations:
by Richard Byrne
Over the weekend I received an email from a reader asking me if I had a list of YouTube channels not named Khan Academy that offer mathematics lessons. I didn’t have a list, but I said I would create one. Therefore, here is my short list of YouTube channels not named Khan Academy that offer mathematics lessons.
What Mathalicious IsAccording to a recent Raytheon survey 61 percent of middle school students say they’d rather take out the garbage than do their math homework. They view math as a bunch of random skills with no connection to the real world and constantly ask, “When will I ever use this?”
If you’re a teacher, Mathalicious is here to help you respond, “Now.”
Mathalicious is transforming the way math is taught by providing middle and high school teachers with the most relevant, engaging, and effective math lessons anywhere. We do this by designing lessons around real-world topics that students care about, from sports to technology to health & wellness. This contextual approach helps students make sense of the math, and develop both conceptual understanding and procedural fluency.
How Mathalicious Works
Using Mathalicious is easy. It doesn’t require you to attend all-day professional development or throw away your existing curriculum. Mathalicious lessons are designed to be modular and flexible, and to complement what you’re already doing. Use them to introduce a topic, or use them as a real-world extension. Whatever you choose, we provide you with everything you need to teach the lesson successfully.
Archive for iPads in Mathematics: The iPad and Maths – Are we there yet? Pt 2 (non Math apps do the job?) and
Designed for those kids who are having a hard time remembering fractions, percents and decimals, Motion Match provides a great learning environment for kids. A star falls down the screen and you have to tilt the screen so it hits the correct spot on the line below that shows the number. Doing it this way, they’ll have an easier way of understanding math while having fun!
A more involved math app than the previously mentioned one, Math Cards can help kids improve their math and also helps parents keep track of how they’re doing. There are quizzes for different sections of math that grade your child when they take them. There are also tips and lessons they can refer to that help improve their math skills. A huge plus, there’s an achievements section where you can check on their work.
This is a great way to stay on top of all your math, and can be especially helpful before tests! Basically, you take a short quiz each day to test your math with a set timer. It is simple math so kids can also play and that will help them get even better at math since they’ll be “studying” every day!
This is a very popular app that is aimed for kids from preschool to elementary school. Depending on their level, there are different flash cards, puzzles, animations, and voice-overs that help them practice their math. It’s a very simple app to use and has different themes (such as birthdays, seasons, and holidays) that make it more engaging and fun.
Mark Gleeson, Mr G Online, 2012 marks his 25th year as a Primary School teacher.
“…he state of Maths apps on iPads at the moment
There’s a lot of potential in the apps available on iOS devices for Mathematics but overall I think they fall a little short of what I would like. Many of the apps are more directed towards the traditional memory/algorithm/procedural methods of teaching or drill practising of number facts and operations. I think where they may fall down is in the fact that the app developers are not necessarily involved in education and are basing their app concepts around traditional Maths they were exposed to.”
Read the full story and see the lost of apps
The number fact/ 4 operations apps
Procedure based apps
Open ended apps
Manipulative Apps
High-school algebra teacher Vito Ferrante has students create YouTube videos as a way to increase their engagement in learning. Students use their own Flip cameras and smartphones to create videos of themselves solving problems, which gives Ferrante insight into their understanding of concepts. “It seems like they’re catching their problems a lot more quickly, and they’re not just doing the same things over and over again incorrectly,” said Ferrante, who teaches at Jesuit High School near Sacramento, Calif.
February 7th, 2012 by Dan Meyer
The medium is the message. The medium defines, changes, and distorts the message. The words “I love you” mean one hundred different things spoken by one hundred different people. Those words convey different meanings spoken on the phone, written on a fogged-over bathroom mirror, and whispered bedside in a hospital.
YouTube videos, digital photos, MP3s, PDFs, blog posts, spoken words, and printed text are all different media and they are all suited for different messages. When you attempt to distribute mathematics through any of these media, it changes the definition of mathematics.
Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and big thinkers assume a shared definition of “mathematics.”
Higher test scores are seen from students in iPad algebra program
Students in an iPad tablet computer pilot program in a Riverside, Calif., middle school achieved math test scores that were 20% higher than the scores of those using traditional textbooks. The yearlong program, sponsored by publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, used the Fuse program, the first algebra curriculum designed exclusively for the iPad.
Boston — Jan 20th, 2012 — Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) today announced the results of a yearlong pilot of HMH Fuse: Algebra I, the world’s first full-curriculum Algebra app developed exclusively for the Apple iPad, involving the Amelia Earhart Middle School in California’s Riverside Unified School District. The pilot showed that over 78 percent of HMH Fuse users scored Proficient or Advanced on the spring 2011 California Standards Tests, compared with only 59 percent of their textbook-using peers.
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HMH Fuse: Algebra 1, Common Core Edition
What it is: Math Pickle is one of my very favorite math sites. It goes WAY beyond your traditional math drill and skill games or math problem worksheets, and has students looking into challenging problems, and having fun doing it. Math Pickle features mathematics videos for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. The videos feature real students engaging in inspiring math problems and puzzles. The videos often speak to unsolved math problems throughout history that students work to solve. In the unsolved problem, students must use developmental level appropriate math to work out the problem. Math Pickle is the brain child of Dr. Gordon Hamilton who wants to abolish elementary mathematics as a subject and push the idea that problem solving is at the very heart of mathematics.
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Wow, this is an amazing site. Take a look at at the site the video by Dr. Gordan Hamilton, a math professor, Let’s Abolish Elementary Mathematics. Sounds like a strong statement, but watch the video!!
This has been a banner year for the iPad in U.S. education – with tots to teens and university students using Apple’s magical device to learn.
How effective iPads are as a teaching tool is open to debate.
A small study, carried out by Michelle Riconscente, an assistant professor of education at the University of Southern California, offers some promising results, even with the necessary caveat that it was funded by the Motion Math app with a grant from the Noyce Foundation.
Download the following Everyday Mathematics® Games Apps for FREE between November 7-11, 2011
https://www.mheonline.com/apps/index.php?page=beat-computer&p=2
iDevBooks – Educational Math Apps, iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad Math Apps
A collection of 18 iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad educational math apps with easy to use and intuitive interfaces. The iDevBooks math apps are used by schools, parents, and students worldwide. They are also popular in special education.
We’ve heard of secondary schools and universities swapping out books for iPads before, but now thanks to a pilot program in four middle schools in Las Vegas, we’re beginning to see just how helpful iPads can be in an educational setting.
According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, 1,150 children at the four schools were given iPads preloaded with……
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Columnist Gareth Cook writes in support of the “flipped” classroom model, in which students receive online instruction at home and practice what they have learned with a teacher in the classroom. Cook writes that this approach is especially beneficial for teaching math, which can be seen in the rising test scores in a California school district that has been using Khan Academy videos to help students learn math concepts at home and at their own pace. The Read the full story in the Boston Globe, Click Here
