Cool Math This site was launched by a math teacher in 1997, and offers resources for students from K-12. Cool Math is highly interactive with games, puzzles, accompanied with appropriate sound effects as students have fun while learning math. This site focuses on cognitive activity, and has links other math sites, and on other topics including sites about teen stress management. This is learned centered since it allow Castle Learning Castle Learning is a K-12 resource for K-12 teachers, students and parents in a number of subject areas. It offers instant grading, detailed assessment reports, and instructional feedback. This tool is definitely behaviorist oriented, and teachers can send individual assignments to students to reinforce concepts. Students could also generate their own assignments for practice. This site also boasts that their content and assessments are aligned to state and Common Core standards, and that they provides the necessary data analysis to assist administrators in meeting district objectives National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NTCM) Illuminations web site
This resource offers a number of interactive math activities, some behaviorist, and some cognitivist. One such resource allows students to enter data and construct a selected graph: area, bar, line, or pie. They are asked to provide labels, captions, and other information needed to generate the graph, and they have control over the output, including size, format, colors, and file type. The resulting graphs can be printed directly, or pasted or saved to incorporate into other documents. According to Laureate (2009), a technology-centered approach uses the capabilities of cutting-edge technology to create multimedia instruction while a learner-centered approach is designed to influence the learning process. Two of these sites, Cool Math and Illuminations allow students to actively construct and link to prior knowledge (Mayer's principle of active cognition, while castle learning is more about reinforcement. centered learning.
Mayer, R. E. (2009). Multimedia learning (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2009b. Technology-centered versus learner-centered instruction. Multimedia technology to facilitate learning. Baltimore, MD: Author
started by jenanp on 11 Jun 12
(a) Cool Math http://coolmath.com/
(b) Castle Learning http://castlelearning.com/
(c) Illuminations http://illuminations.nctm.org/
Cool Math
This site was launched by a math teacher in 1997, and offers resources for students from K-12. Cool Math is highly interactive with games, puzzles, accompanied with appropriate sound effects as students have fun while learning math. This site focuses on cognitive activity, and has links other math sites, and on other topics including sites about teen stress management. This is learned centered since it allow
Castle Learning
Castle Learning is a K-12 resource for K-12 teachers, students and parents in a number of subject areas. It offers instant grading, detailed assessment reports, and instructional feedback. This tool is definitely behaviorist oriented, and teachers can send individual assignments to students to reinforce concepts. Students could also generate their own assignments for practice. This site also boasts that their content and assessments are aligned to state and Common Core standards, and that they provides the necessary data analysis to assist administrators in meeting district objectives
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NTCM) Illuminations web site
This resource offers a number of interactive math activities, some behaviorist, and some cognitivist. One such resource allows students to enter data and construct a selected graph: area, bar, line, or pie. They are asked to provide labels, captions, and other information needed to generate the graph, and they have control over the output, including size, format, colors, and file type. The resulting graphs can be printed directly, or pasted or saved to incorporate into other documents.
According to Laureate (2009), a technology-centered approach uses the capabilities of cutting-edge technology to create multimedia instruction while a learner-centered approach is designed to influence the learning process. Two of these sites, Cool Math and Illuminations allow students to actively construct and link to prior knowledge (Mayer's principle of active cognition, while castle learning is more about reinforcement. centered learning.
Mayer, R. E. (2009). Multimedia learning (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press
Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2009b. Technology-centered versus learner-centered instruction. Multimedia technology to facilitate learning. Baltimore, MD: Author