Ictmagic.wikispaces. 5 Ted Talks to Inspire a Community of Mathematicians - Getting Smart by Megan Mead - blended learning, education, Innovation, math, STEM, students, teachers, technology, TED Talks. Google “math, Ted Talks” and you come up with all sorts of nerdy goodness.
In fact, when math is entered into the search feature on the official Ted Talk website you get 989 (a lot yes, but we could still use some more) videos and in true Ted Talk style, they are all wildly informative. Here are a few that I found most interesting and engaging. The Ted Talks below had a couple of key things in common. How not to hate math. Expressing Mathematical Knowledge (with tweets) · courosa. John Hattie’s Effect Sizes. A balanced, informative article from the Teach Thought blog about John Hattie’s famous work on effect sizes:
How to teach … mental arithmetic. Here's a selection of lesson ideas and inspiration to help your pupils with maths.
Photograph: Alamy. In a world full of gadgets and technology it's easy to be lazy about things like adding numbers in your head. Even a simple calculator is often more favourable to counting on both hands. Math is always hard… until it isn’t. Learning new math is always scary.
It may feel opaque, frustrating, contextless—the playing field is changing beneath your feet, and you’re not sure you know the rules anymore. But you’ve been here before. Look back to something you can now do without thinking—chances are that at one point, you didn’t find it quite so easy. The Math Hunter. The Math Hunter is a new iOS game for helping students w/ their basic Math skills (i.e. addition, multiplication, subtraction, etc.)
This is a super fun app that has players trying to solve Math equations so they have the ability to shoot monsters w/ their bow before they reach the player (or bottom of the screen). A nice feature is the ability to select which type of Math operation you want to work on (or can select multiple) as well as difficulty level. Another nice bonus is the ability to defeat the monsters a few ways such as: upgrading your bow, bombs, freezing them, etc. Ictmagic.wikispaces. 14 Excellent YouTube Math Channels for Teachers. Ictmagic.wikispaces. Fractions Teaching Ideas. Fractions: Fractions - Molly Peet has sent this PDF, aimed at introducing KS1 children to 1/2, 1/4 and 1/3.
What's my Fraction? - A fun game which encourages children to identify fractions. Contributed by Becca Pangbourne. Half - A simple worksheet, requiring children to draw a ring around half of the objects on the page. Contributed by Sherrie Bendjedidi. Fractions / Decimals / Percentages (combined): Greg Tang World of Math - Greg Tang Math. Jo Boaler - Enquiry Based Learning for mathematics. 35 Useful Apps And Web Tools For Math Teachers. If you’re content with a chalkboard and an abacus as a math teacher, that’s cool. But have you seen all the apps and web tools just aching to make a difference in your classroom? They’re robust, built just for you, and most are completely free.
We’ve put together a few lists in our day but always seem to focus on either apps or web tools. Why not offer a useful set of resources that are both dedicated apps and web tools? In fact, some of the listings below are both. Browsing through this list, we see a lot of the heavy favorites in the education world. Johnnie's Math Page - The Best Math for Kids an...
Mathalicious. The Waiting Game How many people should you date before you settle down?
Students use modeling with probability distributions to come up with a rule to try to maximize their relationship happiness. Topic: Conditional Probability and the Rules of Probability (CP), Making Inferences and Justifying Conclusions (IC) The Reel Deal How has the length of popular movies changed over time? Topic: Statistics and Probability (SP) Bracketology. Interactive Learning Sites for Math. Why do people hate maths? “I don’t get it”, “it’s too hard”, “they put me in maths 6 so they make us feel dumb”, “it’s boring”, “there are so many symbols; it’s confusing”, “it’s hard”.
These were some of the responses my students of 9M6 gave me to the question “why is it that you don’t like maths?”. My aim this year is to inspire these kids; to have students excited to come to class and learning maths. It may be a tough assignment, but I have confidence that we can get there. Here is my plan: 1. 2. 3. The year has started well, and 5 weeks in I have some students seeing me in the playground and being excited to come to maths. Gifted Mathematics. Lesson planning resources for educators. Lesson planning resources for educators. Ictmagic.wikispaces. Revision Grids- Level 6. Following on from my previous posts about the level 4 and level 5 Revision Grids, the level 6 ones are now ready for you to download!
Click here to download the Level 6 Revision Grids If you like them please do pass them on to your teaching friends. Designer Worksheets… Whatever Next? One of my fantastic teaching colleagues introduced me to a new website today: www.WorksheetWorks.com It’s simply brilliant!
It creates worksheets for you on a large variety of topics and offers you many options to customise them. For example, if you want a worksheet on adding fractions you can choose whether you want ones with common denominators, different denominators where one is a multiple of another, different denominators where you need to use LCM, whether none, one or two of them should be mixed numbers etc… You can even choose the font of the text! Where this website really succeeds is, for all the options you have to customise the worksheets, it is very easy, quick and intuitive to use. How To Smile - collection of math and science resources. How To Smile is a collection of math and science resources for teachers and students. There are activities that help teachers connect science and math to pretty much anything, including things in the students' homes.
The site is hosted by a group of science museums and collects STEM education materials from the web, as well as from educators. The site is searchable, has tons of activities organized by topic and searchable, comments and sharing, and much more. 2011-2012 Looking back. Looking forward. Time to reflect. Image taken from: 2011 has been a busy year in education. Emerging technologies are making computing more ubiquitous and communication easier. By following the feeds of many wonderful educational blogs, I have seen a real mind shift happening in education with many teachers embracing technologies to change the way that learning happens in their classrooms for the better.
I feel confident in saying that I will look back at 2011 as a year when many learning mini-revolutions began, when education systems around the world started thinking about moving on from the lecture-style model of learning they have used for the last 120 years. 4 in a line on a 100 square. Here’s a fantastic activity to help pupils improve their times tables. It can also be used when looking at factors and prime numbers.
Give a pair of pupils a large 100 square like above. Each player has their own coloured counters. Math Facts Plus Stop Watches Don’t Equal Success. MAD MINUTE is a teaching practice widely used in Canada. It includes having long strips of papers with lists of addition, subtraction, multiplication or division facts on it. The goal is to get as many math facts correct in one minute as you can. Angles in 2D shapes. Room Mom 101: More on Math Work Stations. So just in case my post from yesterday about all the math storage/set up ideas, weren't enough, I have even more for you. Math Learning Embeded into Game Design Process. PlayMaker School, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, just launched in Los Angeles on September 7, with 60 students in 6th grade.
Like Quest to Learn, the game-based school in New York, PlayMaker will incorporate principles of game-based learning into the entire instructional model, but with an additional focus on making and discovering. The goal is to engage students in both high-tech and low-tech games and modular, instructional activities. School of Freebies. Broadcast Yourself. Ictmagic.wikispaces. Math and Science: Out of the Classroom, Into the World. Culture Digital Tools Teaching Strategies Richard Morgenstein Ken-ichi Ueda and Scott Loarie demonstrated the new iNaturalist iPhone app at Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve.
Technology Integration for Math Engagement » It’s All About TIME! Math in Art. Gtk_mult_div. A Puzzle a Day. Sample Assessment Grid. Welcome to Maths Charts by Jenny Eather. Free, printable math posters and charts. Math Facts Plus Stop Watches Don’t Equal Success. MAD MINUTE is a teaching practice widely used in Canada. It includes having long strips of papers with lists of addition, subtraction, multiplication or division facts on it. A World With No Math. Learning Games – Math. Calculation Nation is part of the NCTM Illuminations project, which offers Standards-based resources that improve the teaching and learning of mathematics for all students. Its materials illuminate the vision for school mathematics set forth in NCTM’s Principles and Standards for School Mathematics and Curriculum Focal Points.
The web-based games let students challenge opponents from anywhere in the world. (Illuminations is also part of Thinkfinity.org, an educational website funded by the Verizon Foundation to provide free educational resources to parents, teachers, and students.) Race around the clock times tables - Resources - SML. App Store - Math Tables by tinytapps. Kindergarten Math on the iPad…Many Questions… The Scale of the Universe 2. MathsStarters - a great start to your maths lesson. StudyJams – Fun Help for Math and Science. Memorizing Math Facts. The misconceptions of PEMDAS is a great example of mindless memorization without a concept of number sense and process thinking During off-times, at a long stoplight or in grocery store line, when the kids are restless and ready to argue for the sake of argument, I invite them to play the numbers game.
Fifteen Paperless Math Strategies. How Do You Spark a Love of Math in Kids? How Do You Spark a Love of Math in Kids? iPads in Education Daily. Leadership Think Tank. 3D Shapes I Know (song for kids) REVIEW: Math Monsters: Making Math Fun. Money Index. Weekend Website #95: AIRR Math. Everyday Math iOS Apps - dealmac.com. Dealmac.com: The best deals on iPod, iMac and MacBook. Find sales on Macs, new and refurbished Apple systems. Gaming Based Maths Skills. Videos. Free Fractions Tools.
Researchers consider math anxiety as a phobia. Using Musical Notes to Teach Fractions. A Prezi for you- 2D shape names. Math Mate – Practice Math Skills on Your Android Phone. Khan Academy releases iPad App. Itunes.apple. Math Games - Fun 4 the Brain. 56C - Berwick Fields Primary - 2011. Balancing Math Skills and Play in Kindergarten. Looking for 3D Geometrical Prisms? Here are 10 Sites Where You Will Find Them.
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