Instead of teaching specific skills that may only be useful in specific areas, Lumosity targets core cognitive processes that underlie performance in many different areas. These processes include memory, attention and other abilities that are critical in the real world.
Lumosity is an online brain training website that uses games to strengthen such cognitive skills as memory, problem solving, attention, flexibility, speed, and more! It costs to have a subscription, but the few games that are free (including a speed math problem game!) are enormously fun and you can use them to improve and track your progress in those skill areas.
Let us climb peaks by all means, because their beauty attracts us; not because others have failed, nor because the summits stand 28000 ft above the sea…Let us approach the peaks with humility, and through finding the way to them…learn to solve their problems.
Eric Shipton (1938)
A great math education blog that contains reflections on being a teacher and great resources to use in the classroom, including lesson ideas and book reviews!
This applet from MIT allows you to select from 8 examples of differential equations. It allows you to select the step size. As you toggle through, the step size you selected traces out the "solution" in the vector field. You can then change the step size. It demonstrates the value of a small step size and also provides the actual solution.
Explore the relationship between the equation and the graph of a parabola using our interactive parabola. Just type in whatever values you want for a,b,c (the coefficients in a quadratic equation) and the the parabola graph maker will automatically update! Plus you can save any of your graphs/equations to your desktop as images to use in your own worksheets according to our tos.
Place for educators to share ideas. Has problems and puzzles, online mentoring, research, team problem solving, collaborations, and professional development.
An online community for teachers & students who have an interest in math. On the site, students can find extra help through Ask Dr. Math. Teachers can access Math tools as well as professional development resources.