Game Classroom is an educational games website catering to the K-6 market. Game Classroom offers mathematics games and language arts games. Games can be found by selecting a grade level and then a subject area. Both the mathematics and language arts categ
Published 2012. "Spherical trigonometry was at the heart of astronomy and ocean-going navigation for two millennia. The discipline was a mainstay of mathematics education for centuries, and it was a standard subject in high schools until the 1950s. Today, however, it is rarely taught. Heavenly Mathematics traces the rich history of this forgotten art, revealing how the cultures of classical Greece, medieval Islam, and the modern West used spherical trigonometry to chart the heavens and the Earth. Glen Van Brummelen explores this exquisite branch of mathematics and its role in ancient astronomy, geography, and cartography; Islamic religious rituals; celestial navigation; polyhedra; stereographic projection; and more. He conveys the sheer beauty of spherical trigonometry, providing readers with a new appreciation for its elegant proofs and often surprising conclusions.
Heavenly Mathematics is illustrated throughout with stunning historical images and informative drawings and diagrams that have been used to teach the subject in the past. This unique compendium also features easy-to-use appendixes as well as exercises at the end of each chapter that originally appeared in textbooks from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries."
Curious how social media might benefit you as a math teacher? Check out mathtwitterblogosphere, which encourages math teachers to tweet and blog in order to "get your own creative juices flowing" and participate in a "world-class faculty lounge with colleagues who care about what they do."
Come see profiles of math teachers who use blogs and Twitter, learn about "how to take the leap" with those social media, and find recommendations of tweeps and bloggers to follow, categorized by academic level, or interests such as
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Mount Holyoke physics professor Mark Peterson argues that Galileo's applications of mathematics to Dante's Inferno laid the groundwork for his later discoveries (to be expanded on in a forthcoming book: ""Galileo's Muse: Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts" )
"Street-Fighting Mathematics:
The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving" by
Sanjoy Mahajan, published in 2010. "Mahajan describes six tools: dimensional analysis, easy cases, lumping, picture proofs, successive approximation, and reasoning by analogy. Illustrating each tool with numerous examples, he carefully separates the tool-the general principle-from the particular application so that the reader can most easily grasp the tool itself to use on problems of particular interest." Available as a free download (Creative Commons License), .pdf): http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/full_pdfs/Street-Fighting_Mathematics.pdf
Investigates the mathematics achievement of first year College students in Ontario.
The College Mathematics Project (CMP) is a collaborative project involving Colleges of Applied Arts & Technology and District School Boards in Ontario.
Conceived by Mathematica creator and scientist Stephen Wolfram as a way to bring computational exploration to the widest possible audience, the Wolfram Demonstrations Project is an open-code resource that uses dynamic computation to illuminate concepts in science, technology, mathematics, art, finance, and a remarkable range of other fields.\n\nIts daily-growing collection of interactive illustrations is created by Mathematica users from around the world, who participate by contributing innovative Demonstrations.
The website says: "THE Place For Educational Games!Our research-based and standards-aligned free educational math games and language arts games will engage, motivate, and help teach students. Click a button below to play our free multi-player and single-player games! In the future we'll add features enabling you to save records, tailor content for differentiated instruction, and pinpoint student problem areas."
I think using the games in conjunction with a holistic approach to developing skills would make for a great way of getting students to practices some skills. Let students play, set goals, monitor those goals, reflect on their progress, and apply strategies/heuristics to specific problems they struggle with would create an environment in the classroom where learning was fun, self-monitored, and successful.
Abstract:
This research paper has been designed to develop an online tutoring system for pre
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K to middle
school Math students. The research methodology applied in this study has used both qualitative and
quantitative research methods in terms of external and internal Web or software metrics to obtain the
usable parameters to design an effective tutoring system to learn Math.
Today online hypermedia
applications are increasingly becoming more feature rich,
important and also the most popular means for
communication among school students for e
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learning. This paper is divided into four parts: part 'I' presents
the introduction of
Kumon
based after school education; part 'II'
describes the
research
proposal
to
identify measures, model, and methodology to develop the Web
-
based online learning system for Pre
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K to
middle school math students
; part 'III' elaborates the role of using static analysis, dynamic, and
comparative analysis
that can be applied to check the
characteristics and authenticity of data obtained for
each student separately; and finally part 'IV' investigates the
behaviour of online tutoring system
to find the
failure points and to calculate reliability aspects using
Web page trace algorithms and We
b page
replacement policies.
In this paper, an attempt has been made to systematically explain the state of the art
and their practices to design, analyze, and
test the functionality of
online learning systems for pre
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K to
middle school Math students
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