Math_Technology


 * Mathematics Software **
 * **Geometer's Sketchpad** || [] || //The Geometer’s Sketchpad//® is the world’s leading software for teaching mathematics. //Sketchpad//® gives students at all levels—from third grade through college—a tangible, visual way to learn mathematics that increases their engagement, understanding, and achievement. Make math more meaningful and memorable using //Sketchpad//.
 * **Geometer's Sketchpad** || [] || //The Geometer’s Sketchpad//® is the world’s leading software for teaching mathematics. //Sketchpad//® gives students at all levels—from third grade through college—a tangible, visual way to learn mathematics that increases their engagement, understanding, and achievement. Make math more meaningful and memorable using //Sketchpad//.

Elementary students can manipulate dynamic models of fractions, number lines, and geometric patterns. //Sketchpad// is the optimal tool for interactive whiteboards. Teachers can use it daily to illustrate and illuminate mathematical ideas. Classroom-tested activities are accompanied by presentation sketches and detailed teacher notes, which provide suggestions for use by teachers as a demonstration tool or for use by students in a computer lab or on laptops || ebook_assets/vmf/VMF-Interface.html ||  || **Video Resources**
 * **Geometer's Sketchpad**
 * Resource Center** || [] ||  ||
 * **Geogebra** || [] || * Interactive graphics, algebra and spreadsheet
 * From elementary school to university level
 * Free learning materials ||
 * **SMART** || http://exchange.smarttech.com/#tab=0 || Lessons, images, etc. from smarttech ||
 * **Glencoe** || http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/mathematics/
 * **Khan Academy** || [] || The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere ||
 * **Teaching Channel** || [] || Teaching Channel is a video showcase -- on the Internet and TV -- of innovative and effective teaching practices in America's schools ||
 * **Teacher Tube Math Channel** || [] ||  ||
 * **YouTube Education** || [] || YouTube EDU brings learners and educators together in a global video classroom. On YouTube EDU, you have access to a broad set of educational videos that range from academic lectures to inspirational speeches and everything in between. ||

** Web 2.0 Activity Examples ** ]] || **Comical Math** - A cartoon strip generator used to integrate math skills using students to teach the lesson through their creations. This free open source web based tool gives the student the chance to not only creating knowledge, but produce knowledge. Students love ToonDoos!! The colors, patterns, and vivid animations spark a student's imagination. ToonDoos are a superb way to have students explain and illustrate their understanding of the lesson and concepts just presented. The link included in this wiki will take you our collection of ToonDoos. These ToonDoos were completed by 6th grade students using the assessment cards categorized into strands: measurement, geometry, data, number, extended, and algebra. Each student was given a card and asked to create a ToonDoo in which they were, in essence, teaching the math problem to another. || __Other Great Internet Resources (found by the students) __ 
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 * Prezi || [] || **Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally** - A simple mnemonic to assist students in learning order of operations. View in Auto Play. Prezi will visually guide the viewer through the order of operations starting with parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, and subtraction. Prezi is a free open source web based tool to use to present lessons, lectures, or can be used as an assessment tool for your students to check the level of understanding. ||
 * VoiceThread || __ [] __ || **The Language of Math** - A VoiceThread that explains the Fibonacci numbers and the Divine Proportion and how it relates to nature, the surrounding world, and to you and me. Vocabulary consists of: Integer, Rational Number, Irrational Number. VoiceThread is a collaborative free open source web based tool that teaches to the visual learners and auditory learners both. It allows students to not only create knowledge, but produce knowledge. For a teacher it's valuable to use to re-teach a concept or an entire lesson and is accessible anytime anywhere for you the teacher and your students. ||
 * ToonDoo || [|[[http://www.toondoo.com/MyToondoo.toon]
 * Vimeo || [] || **Adding and Subtracting Integers -** Vimeo is a free open source web based tool used to create online videos or screencasts. After viewing this Vimeo created by a 6th grade teacher at the Presbyterian Day School for boys in Memphis, Tennesse, located at: [], you will immediately see the value of using this site not only for yourself as an educator, but for your students. I have viewed several of this teacher's screencasts and felt this was a must to include in this wiki for your reference, as well. Using 21st Century tools such as Vimeo gives students the opportunity to review lessons at will reinforcing concepts as needed as opposed to hearing lessons given only one time. This is a powerful tool for teachers, students, and even parents. ||
 * Xtranormal || [] || **Sides of a Triangle -** A free open source web based tool. ||
 * Utah Education Network || [] || **Math Interactives** - Online math games that I discovered on Twitter. ||
 * Calculation Nation || [] || **Calculation Nation** part of Illuminosity/Thinkfinity is a free open source web based resource. Recommended by the NCTM, this site allows students to challenge students globally or themselves individually. It is standards based mathematical content that reinforces fundamental skills. ||
 * WolframAlpha || [] || **WolframAlpha** will blow you away. It has an infinite amount of knowledge for which to access. It is a search engine that has the ability to calculate math problems and show the steps to arrive at the solution. How do you convert 1/2 to a decimal? Check it out on WolframAlpha. ||
 * GeoGebra || [] || **GeoGebra**, according to eSchool News, is a free math software that helps students from elementary to college. Included for others to experiment with. No personal experience with this site. ||
 * Top Math Tweeters || [] || **Twitter** is a micro blogging site that is full of valuable, personal professional development. This blog lists top math tweeters. Twitter is well worth the time!! ||
 * Online Learning Math.com || [] || **On Line Learning Math** is full of resources for grade specific help for those struggling with certain skills/concepts organized by grade and topic. It contains online games, online video, and online interacitve worksheets to allow the student to self pace and master the concept they are struggling with. For PK-12th grades. ||
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