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Katie Day

Scale of Universe - Interactive Scale of the Universe Tool - 1 views

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  • Katie Day on 11 Feb 11
     
    Amazing interactive that shows the size of everything in the universe....
Louise Phinney

http://media.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/penguin-jump/penguin-jump.swf?20100921 - 0 views

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shared by Louise Phinney on 25 May 11 - No Cached
  • Louise Phinney on 25 May 11
     
    excellent math game, 4 people at a time can play on 4 computers
Katie Day

iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » Using Angry Birds to teach math, history a... - 2 views

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shared by Katie Day on 27 May 11 - No Cached
  • Katie Day on 27 May 11
     
    interesting blog post of how to use Angry Birds to teach a variety of things... also, I didn't realize you could play Angry Birds via Chrome - http://chrome.angrybirds.com/
  • Miles Beasley on 05 Jun 11
     
    love it - G7 intro to Humanities?
Keri-Lee Beasley

Teaching Fractions K-6 - Download free content from Apple Distinguished Educators on iT... - 0 views

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 29 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 29 Aug 11
     
    Teaching Fractions on iTunes U by ADEs k-6
Jeffrey Plaman

Vi Hart: Everything - 1 views

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  • Jeffrey Plaman on 21 Sep 11
     
    Vi Hart - amazing examples of math in music, art, along with some amazing podcast examples to engage kids in mathematical thinking
Keri-Lee Beasley

More Fun With Math in Pictures - 2 views

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 01 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 01 Mar 15
     
    I love Instagram because it prompts me to take and share pictures of things that I might otherwise glance at then forget about. Before cell phones entered my life I rarely took pictures. Last week I took the picture that you see below. Almost as soon as it appeared in my Facebook feed via Instagram, my friend Kelly commented with, "shouldn't they be more concerned about weight than the number of people?" Kelly is a middle school math teacher so this picture was right in her wheelhouse of math prompts.
Keri-Lee Beasley

Using iPad in Maths - 1 views

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 01 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 01 Mar 15
     
    There is an argument for creating videos as a means of engagement, as an approach involving doing something a little different; something that will hopefully result in a higher likelihood of it being committed to long term memory. These are additional benefits. The real value in these tasks is their requirement for genuine higher order thinking skills, and the resulting assessment of student understanding that can be used in a meaningful way.
Sean McHugh

There's one key difference between kids who excel at math and those who don't - Quartz - 1 views

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  • Sean McHugh on 08 Mar 15
     
    The truth is, you probably are a math person, and by thinking otherwise, you are possibly hamstringing your own career. Worse, you may be helping to perpetuate a pernicious myth that is harming underprivileged children-the myth of inborn genetic math ability.
Keri-Lee Beasley

Serious Doodling: 5 Effective Classroom Drawing Exercises - 0 views

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  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 12 Apr 15
     
    Neat ideas here - love the Matrices - would be a great way to find out about kids at the beginning of the year.
Sean McHugh

11 Ways Finland's Education System Shows Us that "Less is More". | Filling My Map - 0 views

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  • Finland follows the basic formula that has been performed by math teachers for centuries: The teachers go over homework, they present a lesson (some of the kids listen and some don’t), and then they assign homework.
  • What if we didn’t force students who know that their talents reside outside of the world of formal academics to take three years of high school classes that they found boring and useless?  What if we allowed them to train in and explore vocations they found fascinating and in which they were gifted?
  • This system allows the Finnish teacher more time to plan and think about each lesson.  It allows them to create great, thought provoking lessons.
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  • Elementary students in Finland often have the SAME teacher for up to SIX YEARS of their education.
  • Finland understands that the ability to teach isn’t something that can be gained from studying. It is usually a gift and passion.  Some have it, some don’t.
  • They do not try to interfere or usurp their authority and decisions.
  • Study after study
  • Imagine all of the exciting things you could do with your students if there wasn’t a giant state test looming over your head every year.  Imagine the freedom you could have if your pay wasn’t connected to your student’s test scores.  Imagine how much more fun and engaging your lessons would be!
  • teachers take their time.  They look deeper into the topic and don’t panic if they are a little behind or don’t cover every topic in the existence of mathematics in a single year.
  • math ONCE a week
  • The students get to actually understand the material before they are forced on to a new topic.
  • Finnish students have the least amount of homework in the world.  They average under half an hour of homework a night.  Finnish students typically do not have outside tutors or lessons either.
  • I won’t give you homework if you work on this while you are in my classroom.”
  • Trust is key
  • Sean McHugh on 26 Apr 15
     
    ...why are Finnish students succeeding and ours are failing?  The difference is not the instruction. Good teaching is good teaching and it can be found in both Finland and in the US.   (The same can be said for bad teaching.)  The difference is less tangible and more fundamental.  Finland truly believes "Less is More."  This national mantra is deeply engrained into the Finnish mindset and is the guiding principal to Finland's educational philosophy.
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