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"Free Tools for Teachers. These tools are designed for teacher-facilitated instruction, and include sample problems to give teachers instructional suggestions. For each tool you will find a short instructional video, standards alignment (including the recent Common Core State Standards), key vocabulary, and IEP goals. Select a topic below to get started. Concepts to Procedures Higher Order Thinking Identifying Fractions Order Fractions on a Number Line Comparing Fractions Unitizing with Pattern Blocks Adding Fractions with Common Denominators Unitizing Fractions on a Grid Subtracting Fractions with Common Denominators Estimating with Benchmark Fractions Equivalent Fractions Equivalent Fractions with Word Sentences Finding Common Denominators Adding Fractions with Uncommon Denominators Subtracting Fractions with Uncommon Denominators Conceptua™ Math fractions tools are partially funded through a Phase I, Small Business Innovation Research grant (SBIR) from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD): Grant # 1R43HD061108-01. Latest News 05.28.2010 New Free Tool: Comparing Fractions! This new free tool lets students compare 2 or 3 fractions, use visual supports, and work with >, < or = signs. Try It Now! » Read more » Like Conceptua Math? Tell your friends! Featured Video Conceptua Math Overview See what's available and then get started using the tools. "

Free Tools for Teachers. These tools are designed for teacher-facilitated instruction, and include sample problems to give teachers instructional suggestions. For each tool you will find a short instructional video, standards alignment (including the recent Common Core State Standards), key vocabulary, and IEP goals. Select a topic below to get started.

"Animaps extends the My Maps feature of Google Maps by letting you create maps with markers that move, images and text that pop up on cue, and lines and shapes that change over time. When you send your Animap to friends it appears like a video - they can play, pause, slow and speed up the action!"

So Mr Mark does it out tripline tripline?

Today I had my 3rd class of Pre-Kindergarteners. I decided today I would approach the whole lesson as a series of questions. Rather than explain to the students what they would be doing (my first approach) or model what they would be doing (my second approach), I tried to encourage them to explore the tools and when I noticed students who were not using different colours I asked them: "Do you know how to change the colour of the lines?" If the answer was yes, I let them get on with it assuming they would change colour if they wanted to. If the answer was no I asked, "Do you want to know how to change the colour of the lines?", if the answer was no I let them continue in their own way, if the answer was yes I showed them how to do it. In the same way if I noticed students who were drawing lots of similar shapes I simply asked, "Do you know any other shapes?"

Now with places for notation! Using the Rhythm Band * To draw music on the screen, click on the pencil, choose an instrument and draw on any of the 6 lines of the percussion score. * To edit your music, click on the "selection" tool (the dashed square) to activate the "edit" mode. On the score, drag a rectangle around the area you want to edit. You may use the tools below the "selection" tool to duplicate, erase and reverse the selected area. * To adjust the tempo of your music, select the turtle or rabbit to make it play slow or fast.

Technology has been with us since I've been a teacher. I started my career succumbing to the alluring aroma of the Gestetner (Ditto/Banda/spirit duplicator) machine and its purple stained sheet. Then the photocopier arrived and we didn't think it could get any better than making copies of a page for every child. The reality is that many teachers still rely heavily on the immediacy and simplicity of the photocopied black line master provided by someone else. It is far less confusing that all that technical mum jumbo introduced with the computer in the 90s.

Despite its name, not all the content on CoolMath.com is directly related to Math. In fact, their tag line is 'Math and Thinking games'. The Cool Math games site, (www.coolmath-games.com), has many great online games for gifted children. Take, for example, the ever popular Bloxorz, the Lemonade Stand Game, or Bloons Tower Defense. Each are maddeningly fun and addictive, but each are also designed to engage the thinking skills of gifted learners. Many teachers quickly turn to Cool Math when they are looking for extension activities for their fast finishers, and now you can too. Everything on the site is free to use. Read more: http://www.brighthub.com/video-games/family/articles/70813.aspx#ixzz0nVoYSMoo

For Shirley and Co

One stop shop really! I am downloading the cd rom (legally!!) so we can run this off line also!.

If you're a coach, an athlete, a medical expert or simply someone who wants to observe, analyze and describe performance captured on a video, you should give Kinovea a try. Being just under 13MB's in file space, the abilities of the software can be well recognized. It primarily targets coaches, athletes and medical experts by supporting specific functions. Users can measure line length, speed and distance. Data can be exported to OpenOffice calc, Excel and simple text. For Ruth

Wrds is an on-line vocabulary testing program. Simply enter your words and allow yourself to be tested.

Excellent resources

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