Dream Realizations Math links

After only a week of practice, my students had achieved these goals of recognizing and using the distributive property to create their own strategies. Furthermore, most students were mentally multiplying one-digit by two-digit numbers.

Mathalicious provides well thought out, meaningful lessons in an appealing, engaging way. I recommend it!

The Army National Guard’s Mobile Learning Center (MLC) Program is coming to the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh. The interactive program is designed to raise math and science literacy and tours throughout the country.

Program information is available at facebook.com. STEM-related education resources, including teacher’s guides, post-visit assessment worksheets, and additional information on math, science, energy, and the environment are available for download at nationalguard.com.

PBS program "Design Squad Nation" has announced it will partner with Rocket21 to engage its community of tweens in the show's content and activities to help meet the demand for engineers in the job market in the years to come.

The use of social media is important to the venture, both through the Design Squad Nation and Rocket21 sites and through other social media sites. More information on Rocket21 can be found by liking Rocket21 on Facebook at facebook.com and by following Rocket21 on Twitter at twitter.com. Viewers also can follow Design Squad Nation on Facebook at facebook.com and through Design Squad Nation’s Twitter feed at twitter.com.

MathX is a mathematical game where the player is given 4 single digit numbers (0-9). The player must apply the basic operators (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) to each of these numbers, using all the numbers once only, to get to the answer 24.

I used the following with a group of fifth graders and the students have been moving further toward meaningful dialogue and conceptual thinking.

MB-Ruler helps you to measure distances and angles on the screen and distances on a map.

an infographic is, it’s the fusion of graphic design, with data handling

Getting your pupils to produce an infographic gives an attractive alternative to ‘draw me a pie chart showing what different hobbies people have in the class’. I think the key to getting good infographics from the pupils is engaging them with good ones in the interpretation lesson so they know what they are aiming at.

PlanetMath is a virtual community which aims to help make mathematical knowledge more accessible. PlanetMath's content is created collaboratively:

Perhaps, but we have been working awfully hard to produce a final build of a software suite called Epaati, that will assist teaching children from both grade 2 and grade 6 (8 respectively 12 years old) maths and English.