"Technology Integration in Mathematics"

This site is probably one of the best math sites I have seen in a while for teachers to use in and out of their classrooms. Not only is it a great integration of technology into the world of mathematics but it is full of so much great information and resources anyone would be crazy not to use it. It can be used to provide support for teachers in exploring a variety of ways to use technology into their classrooms. It can also be used to enhance students mathematical thinking and problem solving skills. This site includes resources for algebra, geometry, number sense, patterns, and statistics. There are also links that lead to other web sites and resources that teachers can use in their classrooms to help strengthen their students math skills. Along with the links there are rubrics provided to help assess students progress in a standardized manner. Another goody that this site has is a miscellaneous tab that leads to resources for other subjects, information on workshops that teachers can attend and benefit from as well as more math recourses.

I greatly enjoyed this site with all of its great resources for me to be able to use to help my students form strong skills and structures for math. One of the things that I liked most about this site were the given rubrics on how to assess and monitor my students progress in their growing math skills. This aspect makes teaching the concepts of math a little easier on my since I know what to be focusing my teachings on the specific concepts and strategies that these different lesson work on as well as help me know what and how to grade my students on. I know that I will use these lessons and activities in my own classroom simply because they are so useful and ready to use. I hope you enjoy looking through this web site and are able to find it as useful as I have.

Highlight and copy into your browser: http://lpsl.coe.uga.edu/mile3/tim/geometry.html

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Math Mnemonics: Very Interesting!

Have you ever have trouble teaching your students or children the meanings of simple and difficult math terms and concepts? Well, I know I have. This video uses the simple strategy of mnemonics that children are already familiar with to help them remember and understand the math terms and concepts that we so desperately want them to. I hope enjoy this video as much as I did.

MisterTeacher.com: Venn Diagrams for Teaching GCF & LCM

The Venn Diagram is a graphic organizer and concept tool that has been used in classrooms across the country for years but I have never seen them used in a way to compare and contrast such math concepts as greatest common factor and least common multiple. Before now I have only seen them used in Language Arts lesson to compare and contrast two pieces of literature or characters from a story or other things we see in the written world. After stumbling on this web site my views about the Venn Diagram have forever changed. The article I found on www.misterteacher.com talked about using the Venn Diagram to teach the sometimes complicated math concepts of greatest common factor and least common multiple. The diagram below shows how the factors of 21 and 27 not only have factors that only produce them as a total but also factors that produce both 21 and 27.

I had never thought of using a Venn Diagram in this way. I really think that this an amazing way to help children visualize that numbers can have more than one factor and how numbers connect in multiplication as well as in all concepts of math. I will definitely pass this site along to my fellow teachers and educators. I also plan to use this form of teaching GCF and LCM in my own math lessons because it is a great visual way to again show the connections that numbers have with each other as well as help my students conceptionally visualize how to do GCF and LCM problems not only in their classwork and homework but out in the real world.

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Coolmath.com

Wow, wow, wow. This math website is really cool and very helpful. On this math site created by a fellow math teacher wanting to give us all help in the subject of mathematics. All of the pages and links in this site are full of helpful information on how to integrate technology into your math lessons. I really enjoyed the bright colors and easy to understand layout. When I clicked on the "CoolMath-Games" link I was taken to pages full of interactive math games for all grade levels and math concepts.

Would I use this web site and its links and resources in my future classroom? Most definitely. I would integrate this web site into my classroom in many ways. I would use the the different lesson ideas in planning my own math lessons, the games in my math centers for further instruction and understanding, the dictionary for explanation on math concepts and terms, and the "math 4 kids" section to allow my students to further their math skills online in the school computer lab as well as at home. Another aspect that I enjoyed about this website was that there are links to games and resources for the other core subjects. This really interested me because it made it very easy to get all of your information, activities and lesson ideas in one very convenient place. I would highly recommend this site for any of my fellow teachers and educators.

Cheers until my next posting.

Simple Subtraction via TeacherTube.com

Welcome!! To a math blog that lets your children travel as math travels. This blog was created by pre-service teacher Bethany Prall. I will be posting weekly with class assignments, projects, due dates, feild trips, and other things related to the math class schedule. The reason this blog was created was to make math assistance readily available to the students and parents of my class. I hope you enjoy the fun things you will find as we travel with math!