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Blue Mars releases free iPhone, iPad apps - Hypergrid Business - 0 views

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games developer websites

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  • Avatar Reality, developers of the premium 3D virtual world and social platform, Blue Mars, today announced the release of Blue Mars Mobile, its first application for iPhone®, iPad™, and iPod Touch®. Available for free, the app provides a new level of accessibility to Blue Mars and broadens its reach beyond the PC.
  • Rebecca Patterson on 04 Feb 11
     
    Avatar Reality, developers of the premium 3D virtual world and social platform, Blue Mars, today announced the release of Blue Mars Mobile, its first application for iPhone®, iPad™, and iPod Touch®. Available for free, the app provides a new level of accessibility to Blue Mars and broadens its reach beyond the PC.
Rebecca Patterson

IIS: Section II: How the IMP Curriculum Is Different - 0 views

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math curriculum application problem centered methodology integrated

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    It is problem-centered. It is integrated. It expands the content scope of high school mathematics. It focuses on developing understanding. It includes long-term, open-ended investigations. It can serve students of varied mathematical backgrounds in heterogeneous classrooms. The IMP curriculum is problem-centered. Units of the IMP curriculum generally begin with a central problem or theme. Students explore and solve that problem over the course of the unit. How long does it take for a 30-foot pendulum to complete twelve periods? How can you predict the length of a shadow? What is the best design for a honeycomb? What is the probability that the baseball team currently in the lead will win the championship, given the current record of its closest rival? What's the best way to resolve the conflicts of a particular land-use situation within the constraints of competing political and social forces? When should a diver be released from a rotating Ferris wheel in order to land safely in a moving tub of water?
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How Einstein Started Solving Its Math Problem - voiceofsandiego.org: Schooled: The Educ... - 0 views

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  • Einstein's students were developing too many shortcuts and not enough understanding.
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      Rebecca Patterson on 01 Jan 11
       
      Number sense.
  • While 71 percent of its fourth graders meet state math goals, only 17 percent of its 11th graders do.
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      Rebecca Patterson on 01 Jan 11
       
      54% drop.
  • At Einstein, the problem became clear when teachers gave fifth graders a simple test. They told them to put down their pencils and estimate answers to simple questions, different ones than they were used to.
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      Rebecca Patterson on 01 Jan 11
       
      Ahh, estimating!!!
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  • The kids were so wedded to formulas that they couldn't step back and reason through a problem without them.
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      Rebecca Patterson on 01 Jan 11
       
      Rules-based
  • Mathematicians call it a lack of number sense, an intuitive feel for numbers and how they relate to each other.
  • To get kids thinking more deeply about math, Einstein started using new math textbooks this year. Instead of teaching students a new algorithm and drilling them on it in problem after problem, it poses open questions that can be solved multiple ways. That forces kids to figure out what strategies fit a problem, instead of just mechanically following steps.
  • "Now there are fewer problems — but they really have to think."
  • Einstein isn't the only school taking algebra on earlier. San Diego Unified is also changing its elementary school curriculum to ease younger kids into algebraic reasoning. Thousands of teachers have been trained in the new methods, which link algebra to every grade.
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      Rebecca Patterson on 01 Jan 11
       
      Algebra prep in elementary school.
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More Schools Embrace the iPad as a Learning Tool - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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math education learning ipad schools

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  • A growing number of schools across the nation are embracing the iPad as the latest tool to teach Kafka in multimedia, history through “Jeopardy”-like games and math with step-by-step animation of complex problems.
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      Rebecca Patterson on 06 Jan 11
       
      The iPad's becoming more and more prevalent.
  • The iPads cost $750 apiece, and they are to be used in class and at home during the school year to replace textbooks, allow students to correspond with teachers and turn in papers and homework assignments, and preserve a record of student work in digital portfolios.
  • “IPads are marvelous tools to engage kids, but then the novelty wears off and you get into hard-core issues of teaching and learning.”
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      Rebecca Patterson on 06 Jan 11
       
      Lack of research backing usefulness makes for controversy.
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  • And six middle schools in four California cities (San Francisco, Long Beach, Fresno and Riverside) are teaching the first iPad-only algebra course, developed by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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      Rebecca Patterson on 06 Jan 11
       
      Wow! Would love to see this program!
  • Rebecca Patterson on 06 Jan 11
     
    Technology is moving in to stay!
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What would you want to see at the Museum of Mathematics? - MathOverflow - 0 views

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future subQuan development

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    Maybe this is the place for your subQuan debt clock, Cooper??
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Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day… - The Best MATH Sites That Students Can... - 0 views

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mathematics websites tools education math learning teaching

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  • Ten Marks is one that focuses on math. A colleague of mine really liked it, although I have not registered my own students before. Another for both ELA & math assessments is Easy CBM.
  • Sokikom.com has a free component for number sense- fractions/decimals/prevents – that is very well developed, adaptive, and includes video tutorials. My students love it! They also have several components that one could pay to add on.
  • One site that I’ve found to be quite beneficial is ThatQuiz.org. Toying around has found quite a variety of items to introduce and review with the students, and it catalogs quite a bit of data, making it easy to pinpoint individual problems, as well as class issues with specific math concepts.
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  • In the past I have used Tutpop to register a whole class and track the progress they make with math through games played with each other as well as students from around the world! There are different levels, but it is aimed at elementary. I can’t remember who first told me about this site, but I like it.
  • I love xtramath.org. It is a free site that helps kids master their math facts. Initially, the student takes an assessment quiz of what they already have mastered as indicated by a response of 3 seconds or less. Each consecutive session is based on the outcome of the previous assessments. It takes about 5 minutes a day, provides corrective feedback, visuals for goal setting, and can be used for the whole class or set up at home by a parent.
  • Study Ladder. It has impressive literacy, science and math interactives, and teachers can set-up “classrooms” to keep track of student work. Plus, it’s free!
  • If you found this post useful, you might want to explore the other 750 “The Best…” lists
  • Rebecca Patterson on 17 Sep 11
     
    Links galore!!!!
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