ASD Math Department

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.

a parent tries to keep up with her daughter's math skills

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.

founder of YouTube's Khan academy on the Colbert Report a few days ago

A good overview of the different types of multimedia, online, and software tools that are gaining popularity in math classrooms

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.

An interesting take on Khan Academy...  a reminder that no particular tech tool or resource should be viewed as a "silver bullet' 

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.

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.

A new games-based maths teaching resource

Looks like some good resources for kids. They are free online books with videos and examples of typical math topics organized by subject.

"A nifty interactive trigonometry graph and circle featuring the six basic trig functions. By Matthew Trost. You need Flash to view this page. Get Adobe Flash player "

Here are lots of links from the pioneers of the flipped classroom to support it.

This is a really interesting page about how to teach science and math in a "flipped" way. Not just science and math but those are the examples given. Check it out.

New York Times lesson plans. Some of them look pretty good.

I mentioned using google docs equation editor to Amy last week. This may be helpful. I have only played around a little bit with it though.