ASD Math Department

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How the Common Core is redefining math instruction Integrating skills throughout the curriculum, and drilling deeper on concepts, are among key changes. What does teaching math look like under the Common Core standards? Lots of classroom interaction and more inquiry-based approaches to learning, according to experts who are helping schools integrate the standards into instruction....more

the website is kind of terrible actually, but it's a good concept to maybe incorporate into the Math 7 tessellation project. project was done by one of the teachers who presented at the google summit.

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.

*Some free, some paid. Some of the paid ones have free versions. Note: Please feel free to add your own. If you feel that an app is in the wrong place or think one should be deleted, please make a notation before moving and/or deleting and I will check it. Thanks, -Mike Models taken from P-5 NYS Common Core Implementation Guide for "A Story of Units"

Brilliant is one way to keep your science and math whiz kids regularly engaged and challenged. Students receive challenge problems each week that they complete and then compare against their peers all over the world. They can see where they match up against others based on country and age, and share strategies with others students. The site also hosts competitions involving game theory, writing algorithms, and other fun shenanigans.

great common core resource

Free math graphing tool Desmos released Polygraph, a collection of four new classroom activities focused on a game involving lines, parabolas, rational functions and hexagons. It works like Guess Who, where one partner picks a graph and another asks yes/no questions to figure out what the graph is!

This site looks like it could provide some good material for looking at real data - I signed up for an account; this is an email newsletter I received

CK-12 Foundation provides a library of free online textbooks, videos, exercises, flashcards, and real world applications for over 5000 concepts from arithmetic to history

interactive charts and downloadable datasets to work with real-world problems. can sign in using google account, and generate a code for your class to join you.

This GoogleSheets add-on was just released - seems like you might be the people who would appreciate it...

Dreambox just added grades 6-8