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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Tracy Watanabe

Tracy Watanabe

4 Tools to Connect Students to Real World Math - Getting Smart by Susan Oxnevad - CCSS,... - 1 views

  • One of the challenges we face as educators is providing students with opportunities to engage in meaningful learning experiences that show them how they can connect the knowledge and skills learned in school to the real world. 
  • Here are some resources that are ready and waiting for use, regardless of your tech comfort zone.
Tracy Watanabe

Desmos | Beautiful, Free Math - 0 views

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    graphing tool to show slope (Does trig and calculus too) Online Mathematics exploration site. Allows students to create models that can be manipulated by changing variables. Yes, it works on Chromebooks and can be found in the Chrome Web Store :)
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    graphing tool to show slope (Does trig and calculus too) Online Mathematics exploration site. Allows students to create models that can be manipulated by changing variables. Yes, it works on Chromebooks and can be found in the Chrome Web Store :)
Tracy Watanabe

Flightradar24.com - Live flight tracker! - 0 views

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    check out real time radar of airplane flight patterns... you can click on the airplane to see which plane it is! wouldn't it be fun to incorporate this with some math problems? :)
Tracy Watanabe

Science and Engineering of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games - 0 views

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    " NBC Learn, in partnership with the National Science Foundation, has produced these 10 extremely interesting videos that explain the science behind different winter sports. For instance, students might find "Shaun White & The Engineering of the Half Pipe" particularly engaging, plus there are videos covering the science of ice and snow, bobsledding, and much more." --Edutopia
Tracy Watanabe

Formative Assessment Lessons (beta) - 3 views

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    6th-12th grade math lessons/performance tasks great use of math practices, especially #2 reason abstractly and quantitatively
Tracy Watanabe

globalized mathematics collaboration - The Global Education Conference Network - 0 views

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    "looking for teachers and high schools from around the world interested in collaborating on some globalized projects in mathematics.  Projects range from modeling temperature cycles, population growth, to collecting statistics on our communities or a photo gallery of geometric objects."
Tracy Watanabe

Global STEMx Education Conference - 0 views

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  • Welcome to the Global 2013 STEMx Education Conference. The conference will be held September 19 - 21, 2013. The conference is online, in multiple time zones over the course of two days, and free to attend!  Register as a member of this conference network to be kept informed!  See the conference information and welcome HERE and the menu links to the left and at the top of each page.
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    "Welcome to the Global 2013 STEMx Education Conference. The conference will be held September 19 - 21, 2013. The conference is online, in multiple time zones over the course of two days, and free to attend!  Register as a member of this conference network to be kept informed!  See the conference information and welcome HERE and the menu links to the left and at the top of each page."
Tracy Watanabe

Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    "Using a Dan Meyers problem in my Map as a resource.  Brought me to this TED video of him from 2010.  He doesn't reference CC but it captures the esence of it.  He does show teachers how to take what they have and create a great lessons. " -- TB
Tracy Watanabe

TED-Ed | Subjects - 0 views

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    Awesome TED Ed Lessons/talks worth looking at... Math in real world
Tracy Watanabe

Algebra in the Real World Movies with Activities - 0 views

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    Movies to connect how math is used in the real-world & it has activities
Tracy Watanabe

The Digital Curriculum Part 2… Nine Amazing Free Digital Curriculum Resources... - 0 views

  • First… lets take a look at the free  (or almost free) resources provided below
  • 1. Khan Academy As the site states… watch, practice… learn almost anything. There are over 3,100 videos in multiple STEM areas
  • 2. MIT Blossoms BLOSSOMS video lessons are enriching students’ learning experiences in high school classrooms for students across the globe. This amazing video library contains over 50 math and science lessons, all freely available to teachers as streaming video and Internet downloads and as DVDs and videotapes
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  • You also may wish to look for videos or activities using the Common Core at any level of math by exploring Khan’s Common Core Page.
  • The lessons intersperse video instruction with planned exercises that engage students in problem solving and critical thinking, helping students build the kind of gut knowledge that comes from hands-on experience. By guiding students through activities from beginning to end, BLOSSOMS lessons give students a sense of accomplishment and excitement. You can even check these lessons out by standards.
  • 3. Curriki  This is the community of K12 open resources. Currently Curriki has 6.5 million users and contains over 40,000 K12 free learning resources
  • 4. NROCK The National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) is a growing library of high-quality online course content for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement
  • 5. HippoCampus This amazing resource claims to be teaching with the power of media. HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE)
  • 6. WikiBooks Welcome to a collection of open-content textbooks collection that anyone can edit. The Wikibooks collection currently contains 2,443 books with 40,980 pages.
  • 7. CK12 Interactive Book I bring this amazing resource up because it is a a relatively new initiative. The community at CK12 Flexbooks and Wolfram Alpha have combined efforts to bring you this awesome Interactive Algebra Book. 
  • 8. Flexbooks I did include this in the last post but wanted to make sure it was added to the list. So… what is a FlexBook?  They may be best described as customizable, standards-aligned, free digital textbooks for K-12 education. FlexBooks are customizable textbooks that teachers can use online,via  flash drives, CD’s, or as printed books.
  • Wikijunior books are produced by a worldwide community of writers, teachers, students, and young people all working together
  • You may also wish to explore Wikijunior, a project  to produce age-appropriate non-fiction books for children from birth to age 12
  •  Wikibooks is for textbooks, annotated texts, instructional guides, and manuals
  • As a general rule only instructional books are suitable for inclusion
Tracy Watanabe

Common Core Map | Khan Academy - 0 views

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    Common Core math videos for K-12
Tracy Watanabe

Algebra 1 Teachers: How to put math/science symbols and equations (almost) anywhere - 2 views

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    Math and Google Apps -- Shortcuts
Tracy Watanabe

Lesson Plan Search | Lessonopoly.org - 1 views

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    "Welcome to Lessonopoly! We are an open educational resource aiming to make life a little easier for busy educators like you. Lessonopoly is a free software portal developed by Silicon Valley Education Foundation. This site was created with constant input from teachers to deliver a set of effective and easy to use tools, even for teachers who do not have time to learn new technologies. Lessonopoly empowers teachers to organize activities inside and outside the classroom, create and share lesson plans, and connect to other teachers by building online communities."
Tracy Watanabe

Free Technology for Teachers: LearnZillion Math Videos Now Available in Mastery Connect - 0 views

  • LearnZillion videos provide math lessons tied to Common Core standards for grades three through nine.
  •  All materials found on Mastery Connect are tied to specific Common Core standards.
Tracy Watanabe

Experts & NewBIEs | Bloggers on Project Based Learning: How and why should math be taug... - 0 views

  • As a math teacher, what made you turn to Project Based Learning in your own teaching?
  • Why do many math teachers initially resist integrating Project Based Learning into their classes?
  • So we assume having students practicing problems twenty-five times is the only way to learn math. This is a difficult mindset to break. Practice makes perfect is the old adage, but what many math teachers don’t realize is that creating a Project Based Learning environment in a math class doesn’t require students to be “perfect.” Having students solve complex, real-life problems is actually asking students to complete open-ended tasks. These problems may not have one right answer, unlike the practice problems in a textbook. This can be a scary leap for math teachers to take and many students may be hesitant to take this leap as well.
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  • How can integrating Project Based Learning into math class create a more authentic framework in which students can learn?
  • For instance, the solution for the BP Oil spill in the Gulf came from mathematical concepts. The heart of calculus is about speed and change. How do you calculate the rate of the oil leaking into the ocean? Unfortunately, we don’t present math this way to our students. Maybe, if we did, we would see more students engaged in math and choosing careers that are focused on solving real world problems with which we, as a global society, are faced.
  • How does utilizing Project Based Learning create an improved context for preparing students to better meet the Common Core standards for Math?
  • The Common Core focuses on how math concepts interrelate and how they are applied.
  • These standards are talking about applying math. Thus, math teachers must start to look into their subject area as more of an in-depth inquiry process, rather better than simply reducing it down to just the formula and practice questions.
  • How can math be integrated with other subjects in projects?
  • What do you believe was the most important “take-away” from your webinar?
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