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Project based learning using all or any of the three online resources offers a dynamic approach to teaching in which students explore real-world problems and challenges.

The following is a common question heard around teacher workrooms, teacher lunchrooms, faculty meetings, and science or math conferences. "Why use web 2.0 tools when teaching science or math?" The answer is both simple and complex at the same time.

"inspired by scienceblogging.org" "We listed all blogs we know, which seem to be active, are at least partly about mathematics, and offer a feed"

A project at Imperial College (UK)aimed at creating a periodic table of fundamental geometric shapes, "building blocks" "Fano varieties"

A collaboration among Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance & Education Next, the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, and Harvard Kennedy School . "To see how well the U.S. as a whole, each state, and certain urban districts do at producing high-achieving math students, the percentage of U.S. public and private school students in the high-school graduating Class of 2009 who were highly accomplished in mathematics in each of the 50 states and in 10 urban districts is compared to the percentages of similarly high achievers in 56 other countries." High-achieving students in the U.S. were outperformed by high achievers from other countries.

IWB Framework What is the IWB Framework? The framework for effective mathematics teaching and learning using the Interactive Whiteboard was designed after systematic research in 12 classrooms in Ontario. The framework describes how teachers and students are using Interactive Whiteboards in their classrooms.