Project T.R.I.G. members are peparing for their next mission. Can you find the right combination of launch angle and velocity to hit increasingly difficult targets?
MXit launched its instant mobile book to encourage global teenage literacy while being part of a ground-breaking maths initiative in which Grade 9 and 10 pupils taking part in a pilot project exercise have access to 22 500 mathematical problems.
The aim of SAIDE ACEMaths project was to pilot a collaborative process for the selection, adaptation and use of OER materials for teacher education programmes in South Africa.
Over a period of two years we adapted, piloted and revised a set of materials on the teaching and learning of maths for teacher education. These are now available for downloading FOR FREE in two formats - for printing (PDF), and for adaptation (Word). See the ACEMaths Module to have a look.
The OpenScience project is dedicated to writing and releasing free and Open Source scientific software. We are a group of scientists, mathematicians and engineers who want to encourage a collaborative environment in which science can be pursued by anyone who is inspired to discover something new about the natural world.
Abstract: "Students' attitudes toward mathematics and its learning have been subject to numerous
studies in the past six decades. These studies treat such attitudes as both desirable learning
outcomes and correlates of mathematics achievement. Many Likert-type attitude scales have
been devised to measure significant constructs underlying mathematics-related attitudes,
such as confidence, anxiety, and utility of mathematics. The psychometric properties of these
attitude scales may be culture and age dependent. As part of a research project called
Singapore Mathematics Assessment and Pedagogy Project (SMAPP), an effort was made to
devise and validate an attitude toward learning mathematics scale that can be used with
lower secondary school students in Singapore. This paper explains the use of exploratory and
confirmatory factor analyses to reduce an initial 57-item questionnaire to one with 24 items
that cover these six dimensions: Checking solutions, Confidence, Enjoyment, Use of IT in
mathematics learning, Multiple solutions, and Usefulness of mathematics. The data comprise
responses from about 890 Secondary 1 (Grade 7) students in 2010, who took the 57-item
questionnaire, and another 850 students who took the 24-item questionnaire in 2011. The
nature of the final questionnaire is discussed. This effort contributes to the continual effort to
devise validated attitude scales that are suitable for different cultures and student groups."
"Last week Tim Gowers, Cambridge University mathematician and open access advocate who led the recent boycott of Elsevier, announced an exciting new open access initiative for mathematicians on his blog. The project, called the Episciences Project, will make it super quick and easy to set up open access journals called "epijournals"."
"Primary school students are more likely to understand and engage with maths if classes use real money and real-life projects, according to a Western Sydney University pilot study.
The findings come as Australian students lag behind other countries in maths, with Year 4 students dropping from 18th to 28th out of 49 countries in year 4 maths in the latest Trends in International Mathematics and Science study."
The Gateway expands educators' capability to access Internet-based lesson plans, instructional units and other educational materials in all forms and formats. The Gateway's goal is to improve the organization and accessibility of the substantial collections of materials that are already available on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.
The Gateway has been serving teachers continuously since 1996 which makes it one of the oldest publically accessible U.S. repositories of education resources on the Web. The Gateway contains a variety of educational resource types from activities and lesson plans to online projects to assessment items.
The NRICH Project aims to enrich the mathematical experiences of all learners. To support this aim, members of the NRICH team work in a wide range of capacities, including providing professional development for teachers wishing to embed rich mathematical tasks into everyday classroom practice. More information on many of our other activities can be found here.
On our website you will find thousands of our free mathematics enrichment materials (problems, articles and games) for teachers and learners from ages 5 to 19 years. All the resources are designed to develop subject knowledge, problem-solving and mathematical thinking skills. The website is updated with new material on the first day of every month. For guidance on how to find the right resources for you, go to the Help section of the site.
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
arts and craft in the math classroom
games and gamification in math
interdisciplinary Work
modeling approach to teaching
standard-based grading
projects and rich tasks
technology in the math classroom
InBalance has been been developed by a team of European research and learning institutions.The purpose of the project is to support and develop adult tutors of numeracy and provide structured and engaging materials for learners of several abilities. InBalance is a realistic & systematic methodology based on the needs of individual learners & their practical everyday experiences.The InBalance website presents you with a European Numeracy Framework. It describes in detail European levels of competence in numeracy relating to real life situations. There is also a bank of learning materials & an assessment tool for you to use with your own learners; and an exercise maker which will assist you to create your own learning materials.
"Kill Math is my umbrella project for techniques that enable people to model and solve meaningful problems of quantity using concrete representations and intuition-guided exploration. In the long term, I hope to develop a widely-usable, insight-generating alternative to symbolic math."
I know that this was already shared with the math group, but this is to the main site. Not just the PDF file. These are videos to help put reasons behind why we would learn math concepts and what are they related to. I think they can also serve as a good model for student math projects.
Bring Geometry to Life with Google SketchUp
Welcome to 3DVinci's Math Forum Page!
Google SketchUp is a free, fun, easy-to-use 3D modeling application.
Originally created for architects and designers, SketchUp is also a great
tool for teaching geometry.
The resources on this page will help you bring SketchUp into your classroom
and show you some wonderful projects in 2D and 3D geometry.
The Math 2.0 Interest Group is an international network of researchers, educators, families, community leaders and technology enablers. We are collaborating on a variety of research and development projects and conversation threads about social media as it relates to mathematics and mathematics education.