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Indicators of Technology Integration Tiers - 0 views

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    Tiers of Technology Integration into the Classroom Indicators - with Examples
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Free Technology for Teachers: Mudd Math Fun Facts - 1 views

  • Mudd Math Fun Facts is designed for use with introductory college math courses, but it could also be a great website for some high school mathematics classes. The math fun facts can be used to expose college-bound students to some higher order mathematics concepts and spark some curiosity about mathematics.
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Desmos | A Better Calculator - 0 views

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  • Introducing: A Better Calculator Launch the Calculator! If math is the universal language, the calculator is our interpreter—and it hasn't improved in 20 years. Until now. We set out to reimagine the graphing calculator from the ground up, building on the best technologies available. This is beautiful, powerful, intuitive math that lives in your browser. Graph multiple functions in vivid color and watch them update as you type. Save your work to the cloud or share it with friends. Transform your computer or tablet into a math engine. This is just the beginning—and it's all completely free. Education is too important to be dominated by expensive, inaccessible, outdated technology. A Better Calculator is here. Spread the word!
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Free Technology for Teachers: Plus Maths Challenging Mathematics Puzzles - 4 views

  • Plus Magazine is a free online publication dedicated to introducing readers to practical applications of mathematics. Plus Magazine strives to reach that goal through the publication of mathematics-related news articles, podcasts, and mathematics puzzles designed around "real-life" scenarios.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Teaching Kids Real Math With Computers - 1 views

  • In Teaching Kids Real Math With Computers Conrad Wolfram claims that the hand calculations most math curricula requires is irrelevant to most real world mathematics applications.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Math Open Reference - Online Geometry Reference - 1 views

  • . Math Open Reference features animated and interactive drawings to demonstrate geometry terms and concepts. The table of contents on Math Open Reference is divided into four basic categories; plane geometry, coordinate geometry, solid geometry, and function explorer tools.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Ten Marks for Educators - Online Math Instruction - 1 views

  • Ten Marks, an online mathematics tutoring service, recently launched a free program for teachers. The new Ten Marks for educators is designed to be a supplement to classroom instruction, not a replacement for it.
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Industry Pitching Cellphones as a Teaching Tool - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • This is a device kids have, it’s a device they are familiar with and want to take advantage of,” said Shawn Gross, director of Digital Millennial Consulting
  • On Tuesday, Digital Millennial will release findings from its study of four North Carolina schools in low-income neighborhoods, where ninth- and 10th-grade math students were given high-end cellphones running Microsoft’s Windows Mobile software and special programs meant to help them with their algebra studies.
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  • “Texting, ringing, vibrating,” said Janet Bass, a spokeswoman for the American Federation of Teachers, the nation’s second largest teachers’ union. “Cellphones so far haven’t been an educational tool. They’ve been a distraction.” Ms. Bass says it is “almost laughable that the cellphone industry is pushing a study showing that cellphones will make kids smarter,” particularly during a recession that is crushing the budgets of many school districts.
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      SOmeone thinking inside the box.
  • Suzette Kliewer, the teacher who administered the Digital Millennial program at Southwest High School in Jacksonville, N.C., said the phones excited her students and made them collaborate and focus on their studies, even outside of school hours. “They took average-level kids and made them into honors-level kids,” she said.But Ms. Kliewer also said that she spent much of her own time at night, and during weekends and holidays, monitoring the students’ phone use and occasionally disconnecting phones remotely when students broke the rules.“You have to be willing to put in the time and be very patient with the technology,” she said.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Five Good Places to Find Math Tutorial Videos - 1 views

  • e five places that students can find free mathematics tutorial videos.
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Free Technology for Teachers: TenMarks - A Free Math Program for Your Class - 2 views

  • TenMarks offers a free online mathematics program designed to supplement your in-classroom mathematics instruction. The free TenMarks program covers materials for students in grades two through ten. In the program there are more than 2,000 video lessons available to students to view on demand. Teachers can use the TenMarks program to assign lessons and problems to individual students or to an entire class. Teachers can track the progress of individual students and the progress of an entire class. Watch the video below to learn more about the free TenMarks mathematics program for your classroom.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Calkoo - An Excellent Set of Online Calculators - 0 views

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    . Calkoo is a website that offers forty-three free online calculators for a variety of functions. The list of calculators that Calkoo is divided into ten categories. Those categories are mathematics, measurement & conversion, saving & investing, capital budgeting, cost of capital, wages & taxes, financial analysis, health, loan & leasing, and stock analysis.
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How to Creatively Integrate Science and Math | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Just read this first paragraph, I wish all students saw this
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Teaching Math to Boys | Edutopia - 0 views

  • Teaching Math to Boys Teacher Tom Wolken uses technology tools and timed challenges to teach math at Olmsted Academy North, an all-boys middle school in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Let Google Voice Rock the Classroom! - 0 views

  • Get in Character: Let the learners have fun by leaving messages in character.  Perhaps you’re studying historical figures or fictional characters.  Let the learners assume the role and record messages assuming that role.  I’d love to hear what the kids come up with when given this task!
  • Vocabulary: Learners can speak sentences or paragraphs that demonstrate knowledge of vocabulary words.  You could even embed these in a class website, to serve as review/reference materials.
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    "Let Google Voice Rock the Classroom!"... Wow
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    Math Solutions: To demonstrate understanding of a topic or the solution to a problem, the learners can talk it out. When I was a math teacher, I would have loved this as form of assessment that allowed me inside the kids' heads.
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Free Technology for Teachers: William Vann's EduPic Graphical Resource - 0 views

  • EduPic Graphical Resource provides free photographs and drawings for teachers and students to use in their classrooms. Mr. Vann is an amateur photograph (a good one at that) and a teacher. Mr. Vann gives permission to teachers and students to use the images in any manner needed for instructional and learning purposes.
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