"Inspire your math students with brand new, original content from PBS including Peg + Cat, I

This is Skype's attempt to get classroom's collaborating around the world.  Some people are looking for teachers to help them with specific lessons (i.e. Spanish teacher)  Please take a look through the Skype Lessons link for more details.

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.

"With the release of its mobile app for iPhone and iPod Touch, Khan Academy has given students the ability to take its collection of more than 3,500 educational videos on the go." Here is the iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/khan-academy/id469863705?mt=8

Beautiful, Free Math Launch Calculator » No downloads, no special hardware, no cost. Welcome to the next generation graphing calculator!

"Illustrative Mathematics Content Standards: Kindergarten Through Grade Eight"

"Illustrative Mathematics provides guidance to states, assessment consortia, testing companies, and curriculum developers by illustrating the range and types of mathematical work that students experience in a faithful implementation of the Common Core State Standards, and by publishing other tools that support implementation of the standards."

Mathletics is the next generation in online math learning platform, helping students enjoy math and improve their results.

Math lessons aligned to the Common Core

"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."

"Technology Permeates Common Core Standards"

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.

This is going to be an amazing tool! Use engaging videos to create customized lessons. You can use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on TED-Ed, or create lessons from scratch based on any video from YouTube. Watch the video to learn how.

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.

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.

A new games-based maths teaching resource

Really cool new google lab feature "Correlate"  There is so much to look at here.  Try out the Drawing feature...pretty cool. Draw an interesting curve, then click 'Correlate!' to find query terms whose popularity over time matches the shape you drew.

GNU TeXmacs is a free wysiwyw (what you see is what you want) editing platform with special features for scientists. The software aims to provide a unified and user friendly framework for editing structured documents with different types of content (text, graphics, mathematics, interactive content, etc.). The rendering engine uses high-quality typesetting algorithms so as to produce professionally looking documents, which can either be printed out or presented from a laptop. The software includes a text editor with support for mathematical formulas, a small technical picture editor and a tool for making presentations from a laptop. Moreover, TeXmacs can be used as an interface for many external systems for computer algebra, numerical analysis, statistics, etc. New presentation styles can be written by the user and new features can be added to the editor using the Scheme extension language. A native spreadsheet and tools for collaborative authoring are planned for later.