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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.

Very exciting - Wolfram organized by Common Core Standards. Science Standards to come shortly. 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 a really interesting page about alternate ways to teach science and math (not just science and math but those are the examples given). Check it out.

Free educational simulations covering a diverse topics designed by the University of Colorado available in various languages. This is a really great site to use for science resources. Teachers have also developed and posted lesson plans for each simulation.

Interactive Science Simulations Fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the PhET project at the University of Colorado.

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.

Teachers and students can use Gooru to search for rich collections of multimedia resources, digital textbooks, videos, games and quizzes created by educators in the Gooru community.

"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."

A series of online workshops on assessment in math and science. I know some of us were wondering about where we could find models and examples of performance based assessment for science, and these videos have several.

After two years, the final Next Generation Science Standards arrived in April, and along with a focus on rigor and real-world application, the standards include a focus on engineering-and education leaders are ensuring that their teachers have the resources to teach the subject. Resources: Amazing Alex app- grades 4-8- Rube Goldberg contraptions Coaster Crafter- grades 3-12 physics concepts taught through games building a roller coaster Design Squad Nation- grades 3-8- compete to solve engineering problems World of Goo app- grades 4-12- build structures with unique materials. Geometry, physics, engineering

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.

The Quest Learning and Assessment System uses an extensive knowledge bank of over 60,000 questions and answers covering Math, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Physical Science and Physics.

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