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Very exciting - Wolfram organized by Common Core Standards Wolfram Education Portal, organized by course. In the portal you'll find a dynamic textbook, lesson plans, widgets, interactive Demonstrations, and more built by Wolfram education experts. You can take a look at the types of materials we offer below, but to get full access to all materials, you need to sign up for a free account.

Making Math more interesting.  You may have seen this video before (2010) but still very good.   Very interesting perspective by Conrad Wolfram.  He thinks the way we are teaching Math is the problem. http://www.ted.com From rockets to stock markets, math powers many of humanity's most thrilling creations. So why do kids lose interest? Conrad Wolfram says the part of math we teach -- calculation by hand -- isn't just tedious, it's mostly irrelevant to real mathematics and the real world. He presents his radical idea: teaching kids math through computer programming.

"The portal comes equipped with a dynamic and interactive textbook, lesson plans aligned to the common core standards, and many other supplemental materials for your courses, including Wolfram Demonstrations, widgets, and videos. The Education Portal currently contains full materials for Algebra and partial materials for Calculus, but will continue to grow and improve with your comments and feedback. We developed the interactive textbook by working with the CK-12 Foundation, a non-profit organization with the mission to produce free and open source K-12 materials aligned to state curriculum standards and customized to meet student and teacher needs. The available Algebra textbook takes CK-12′s Algebra I FlexBook and makes it dynamic with our technologies."

The Problem Generator - which is available to all Wolfram Alpha Pro subscribers now - creates random practice questions for students, and Wolfram Alpha then helps them find the answers step-by-step. Right now, the Generator covers six subjects: arithmetic, number theory, algebra, calculus, linear algebra and statistics. The difficulty of the questions can be tuned down for students in elementary school and tuned up for those in college calculus classes. As the company notes in today's announcements, the material for students in elementary and secondary schools closely follows the Common Core Standards initiative.

New to Wolfram is that you can now embed various demonstrations from their website.  To the right of this example is a line of code that you copy by placing your cursor inside the text box.  Copy (cmd + C) and paste the HTML code onto your site.   If you would like a demonstration of this please contact one of your TIF's for an explanation.

I know that Google is king in the search industry but this new 'heapr' claims to be faster.  It says it is powered by google.  The cool aspect is that it divides the screen in two columns and it currently searches twitter, wolfram and wikipedia.

There are some good simulations here that you can manipulate online now for free.

Tableau Software today announced that it will make its flagship visual analytics product free to students currently enrolled at an accredited K-12 institution, college or university worldwide. Tableau for Students is a new program that provides licenses of Tableau Desktop Professional to students to enhance their studies and gain new skills. Tableau Academic Programs also include the Tableau for Teaching initiative, which offers educators software for their classrooms. Students should visit http://www.tableausoftware.com/academic/students to obtain a free product code and will be asked for information to verify their student status at an accredited institution.

integrating computer programming into the math curriculum... and interesting argument!