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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 18 Sep 11 - No Cached

Thinking Blocks provides interactive templates in which students use brightly colored blocks to model and solve problems. As students work through the problems they are provided with feedback as to whether or not they are using the correct sequence to solve each problem. There are templates and problems for addition, multiplication, fractions, and ratios. You can also develop your own problems using the modeling tool.
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shared by Tracy Watanabe on 09 Sep 11 - No Cached

shared by Tracy Watanabe on 25 Feb 13 - No Cached

In this article, I make a case for student blogs as a tool that can support and extend students’ mathematics proficiency through the Standards for Mathematical Practice.
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Teachers who use math journals can easily convert that process to a digital one through blogging.
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1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
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The act of blogging allows for: students to make their thinking visible students and teachers to give one another feedback students and teachers to keep a record of student progress with mathematics What follows is a definition of the eight Standards for Mathematical Practice and a description of how blogging can enhance and strengthen students’ use of these practices:   Teachers who use math journals can easily convert that process to a digital one through blogging.
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2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively
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3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
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4. Model with mathematics.
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5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
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6. Attend to precision.
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7. Look for and make use of structure.
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8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
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