ASD Math Department

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.

for Math 7, M+ and 8? Scratch makes it easy for students to animate concepts and explain them 

Scratch is a free programming app (it's already on your computer and all the kids) that comes from MIT (scratch.mit.edu) that would be a great teaching tool in math.  Larry, I mentioned this to you a while ago, but here it is!

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.

huh - cool! 

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

"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

Mangahigh.com is one of the world's first games-based-learning sites, where students learn Mathematics via purpose-built casual games that balance fun and learning.

just an interesting article

"Our brains are wired to think logarithmically instead of linearly: Children, when asked what number is halfway between 1 and 9, intuitively think it's 3.  This attention to relative rather than absolute differences is an evolutionary adaptation."

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

A great tool that puts an overlay on graphs, so you can manipulate data and make adjustments Jeff found using Geobra

"Illustrative Mathematics Content Standards: Kindergarten Through Grade Eight"