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Geometry Pad is a dynamic geometry application for iPad.  With the Geometry Pad you can create fundamental geometric shapes, explore and change their properties and calculate metrics. The shapes are displayed on a scrollable and zoomable workbook with a rectangular coordinate system. The following tools are built into the application:  - Move and scale. Scroll the workbook by your finger. Pinch and zoom the content of your workbook. Move and modify shapes.  - Point. Plot a point on the workbook. Customize point name and color.  - Line. Create a line. Customize line style, color and start/end points. Calculate line length (distance between points).  - Midpoint for lines. Show/hide midpoint for lines and polygon sides. Snap to midpoints.  - Parallel, perpendicular and tangent lines. The lines can be created as easily as regular lines. Just create and move the line until it automatically snaps to parallel, perpendicular or tangent.  - Angle. Create an angle with up to 1 degree precision. Customize angle line style and color.  - Triangle. Create a triangle of one of the predefined types: regular, right triangle, isosceles, equilateral. Customize sides style and color. Calculate triangle perimeter and area. Calculate inner angles of the triangle and length of its sides.  - Triangle lines. Create altitude, bisector and median lines in a triangle. Calculate length of triangle lines. Customize lines style and color.  - Quadrilateral. Create a quadrilateral of one of the predefined types: regular, square, rectangle, parallelogram, rhombus. Customize sides style and color. Calculate quadrilateral perimeter and area. Calculate inner angles of the quadrilateral and length of its sides.  - Circle. Create a circle. Calculate circle perimeter and area. Easily create circles inscribed into a triangle by placing circle's center close enough to the incenter of a triangle.  - Circle radius and chord. Create radius and chord lines for a circle. Customize lines style and c

Journey North is a world-wide project in which K-12 students track wildlife migration and the changing the seasons, share their data with other classrooms, and learn about science, math, and the world around them in the process. "Journey South" (tracking fall's progress in the northern hemisphere) is beginning now, and you can use that program to prepare for spring's Journey North in your classroom. Free registration is required to share data online. The general public is welcome to participate. The site offers standards-aligned lesson plans and resources for teachers, as well as a portal for kids.

"GeoGebra (www.geogebra.org) is free dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that brings together geometry, algebra, spreadsheets, graphing, statistics and calculus in one easy-to-use package. Interactive learning, teaching and evaluation resources created with GeoGebra can be shared and used by everyone at www.geogebratube.org. GeoGebra is the world's favorite dynamic mathematics software, has received numerous educational software awards, and supports STEM education and innovations in teaching and learning worldwide. Join us. Dynamic Mathematics for Everyone. * Free to use software for learning, teaching and evaluation * Fully interactive, easy-to-use interface with many powerful features * Access to an ever-expanding pool of resources at www.geogebratube.org * Available in many languages * A fun way to really see and experience mathematics and science * Adaptable to any curriculum or project * Used by millions of people around the world"

Today, you're in charge of the nation's finances. Some of your options have more short-term savings and some have more long-term savings. When you have closed the budget gaps for both 2015 and 2030, you are done. Make your own plan, then share it online.

The purpose of this blog is to help generate and share ideas for teaching high school math concepts to students whose skills are below grade level.

This handbook is a pedagogical tool to support educators in formal and non-formal systems to understand and put into practice global education activities. Global education is understood by the authors to encompass development education, human rights education, education for sustainability, education for peace and conflict prevention and intercultural education. By presenting global education philosophy and content, related methodology and evaluation issues, as well as by sharing existing practices, tools, resources and bibliography, the Guidelines aim to strengthen global education fundamentals and practices.

"it turns out that most people who consider themselves proficient at digesting number based health information, when called upon, often end up performing quite poorly on problems requiring numeracy." (thanx Johan 4 sharing this link)

created a fully functional, browser-based  graphing calculator. The calculator performs all of the functions you would expect to see in a graphing calculator with a couple of extras that you don't find in typical graphing calculators. Desmos allows you to share your equations and graphs through a Bit.ly link. Desmos graphs your equations as you type them and redraws them as you alter your equations.

Just a place to share mathematics resources for use in classrooms