10 Easy Ways to Teach Students about Saving Money. By Jennifer Prescott (jprescott@weareteachers.com) In our financial climate, it's clear that many people have not learned ways to help them to save money. Help your students to become the exception by giving them the tools they need to become savers early on. Here are 10 simple ideas. Help your students to set financial goals—ask them to consider a big-ticket item or putting aside money for college. Check in regularly to find out what they're doing to work towards those goals. 10. Question for you: How do you teach your students about personal finance? Maths apps.
Early Merry Christmas to me. Last week, our principal offered a day of training along with a (school) i-Pad to two of our staff members. We had to submit how we would use the i-Pad in our classroom. Here's what I submitted: If I were to receive the training and I-Pad, the first way I would use it would be to put together screencasts to upload to the internet for my students. A screencast is when you write on the screen and audio is recorded along with whatever you are writing so that it would be similar to being in the classroom (although they wouldn't see my smiling face). My intent would be to have screencasts for each concept and to use some examples that we went over in class and possibly additional examples as well. Students would be able to view these outside of class to help their understanding of the material. There are also a couple of apps that will allow the I-Pad to control the mouse.
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Tools. Math Quiz : Online GCSE and A Level Maths tests. Secondary maths teachers will be interested in Math Quiz, an online bank of maths tests for students. There are 4 levels of test : GCSE mathematics, A-Level mathematics, Foundation for University mathematics and University level mathematics. The questions are multiple choice, usually 10 questions per test. Once the test is complete the system gives instant feedback to the user.
You need to register with the site to get the full functionality such as seeing full tests and saving your past tests to a user profile. If you want to just check the site out you can do that without registering and access some cut-down quizzes. The site uses something called MathML to correctly display mathematical expressions in the browser, so as such it works best in Firefox browsers rather than Internet Explorer. Math Quiz would be useful for teachers to direct their students to for maths revision and maybe for running short tests in a lesson. Take a look here :
Grapgingcalculaor. Onlinegraphingcalculator. Wolfram alpha. Mathtool. Images and other links. Games. Lesson plans. Problems. Brain teasers. Puzzles. Project ideas. Math videos. Mathvirtualactivities. 3dmodellng. Mathsboadclassgames. National Library of Virtual Manipulatives. PBS Kids Cyberchase - Dozens of Math Activities. PBS Kids Cyberchase offers dozens of online and offline mathematics games and activities for students. The collection of more than forty online games are designed to make students think about patterns and use logic to solve challenges. The offline activities use the same model, but are designed for hands-on offline learning. The highlight of the Cyberchase online activities are the "quest" activities in which students have to solve problems as along a journey as they work toward a goal.
For example, in Mission Motherboard students have to solve problems to earn money that they then use to buy parts to fix a motherboard. Not all of the games are as time intensive as Mission Motherboard. A quick activity is the Virtual Coin Flip. Applications for Education The large selection of online activities available on Cyberchase makes it a good resource to use in a classroom where you have groups of students working on different skills at the same time. Exploriments - science and maths simulations. Exploriments are simulation-based interactive learning resources for enhancing understanding in Chemistry, Physics and Maths in an experiential manner. They can be used by both students and teachers.
Exploriments provide a highly interactive, exploratory, and engaging experience. Topics covered include forces, motion, projectiles, electricity, chemical formulae, graphing and algebra. Some of the activities are available for free – with the rest available on subscription. You will need to register with the site to access the free resources, which are spread throughout the site – usually one or two free resources per section. Each resource is accompanied by instructions on how to use it, as well as comprehensive text which describes the theory behind the simulation and any necessary formulae. Take a look at : Smart board users should also take a look at the Smart Exchange where Exploriments have put up a few notebook files that they’ve created.
Animationsmaths. Topics. Useful PD! The professional development I attended over the last few weeks was really good for a few reasons: 1. the presenter teaches math and works with kids on a regular basis (she knows what it's like to teach math right now) 2. it was relevant (she asked what topics we were currently working on, visited our classes to see first-hand what we're working with and the whole thing was targeted to teachers of grade 9-10 "at risk" kids) 3. it was all about what to do (there were actual tasks, she gave us materials and let us try out activities) 4. the philosophy was research based (personal research in her school as well as cited articles, all of which was intermingled with the activities so every philosophical point was paired with a concrete method of applying the philosophy) So, now that you're jealous that I got to go to 10 hours of really well planned, awesome PD, I'll share what I learned.
(If you happen to teach near Beverly, MA then you should just get someone from Landmark out to your school.