About Ascend Math Intervention | Online Tutorials | Personalized Learning Plans | Assessment Ascend Math gives you the power of highly acclaimed math tutorials, personalized learning plans, and continuous assessment to get your students back up to grade level fast. Ascend Math is the research-based web delivered math intervention that: Identifies student skill gaps Prescribes targeted individualized instruction Motivates them through award winning video instruction and interactive explorations Students using Ascend as their primary math intervention strategy often achieve two or more grade levels in less than one school year. Grissom Middle School, IN Special Education Math Intervention More about this implementation Carbon County School District, WY Special Education, tier 2 intervention, after school enrichment, algebra readiness, and gifted and talented students Seven months with Ascend More about this implementation Next
Math, PBL and 21st Century Learning for All Students Considering project-based learning as a way to teach 21st century competencies? Or perhaps you have already used PBL in your schools and want support for your discussions with administrators, parents or board members? In either case, it might be helpful to know about the strong research evidence that PBL, when supported by good professional development, can in turn support the teaching and learning of 21st century skills significantly better than more traditional alternatives. Sometimes skeptics will argue that for certain subjects (e.g., math) or some types of students (e.g., lower performers) are harder to teach using PBL. Math teachers and teachers of lower-performing students do have unique challenges for teaching 21st century skills. Here are two more videos showing students using math while conducting projects, working in groups to create original products or presentations. Evidence from West Virginia Let's look at the data. Suggested Resources
Connecting to Math in Real Life By Wendy Petti Who needs math games when a world of meaningful real-life fun is beckoning? It's easy and rewarding to connect to the real world in math class. On the Information Highway," we can find online collections of real-world math activities, math activities with a specific real-life focus (including natural disasters), online data sources, portals for joining or launching collaborative math and science projects, and more. The real-world resources assembled here are sure to excite teachers and students alike. Collections of Real-World Math Activities The math activity sites listed here are repositories of lesson ideas that can be explored offline without the use of computers. Math Goodies Their multi-media curriculum includes 168 in-depth lessons organized into instructional units. Mixing in Math This set of free activities helps teachers, parents, and after-school programs mix a bit of math into students' daily routines. Online Math Activities with a Specific Focus
Fraction as a Number: 3.5 Indicator of progress An important step in mathematical development is that students come to see a fraction a/b as one number, even though it is written using two whole numbers, a and b. The concept of fraction begins as a way of describing part-whole relationships. If I am getting two fifths of the pizza, then my part is obtained by dividing the pizza into 5 equal parts, and taking 2 of them. The fraction 2/5 describes my part in relation to the whole pizza. Fractions can be used in these ways before students fully consider them as numbers in their own right. Illustration 1: Placing a fraction on a number line A student who does not know that 2/3 is one number will have trouble marking this point on a number line as a point between 0 and 1. Before they see a fraction as one number, students cannot place fractions on a number line and are unable to use the number line to model operations with fractions. Illustration 2: Number sense, especially with addition and subtraction of fractions
What Does Problem-Based Learning Look Like in Classrooms? One important story is unfolding at Westgate Elementary School in Arlington Heights, Illinois. Educators there have used PBL for a number of years, examining how it works best with young students and adapting the process to a point where their school community—administrators, teachers, students, parents, and businesspeople—enthusiastically support the method. In one problem, 1st through 5th grade students investigated difficulties their former principal was having maintaining a healthy flower garden at home. Students examined soil and plant samples from her garden, read about how to grow healthy plants, searched the Internet, contacted local experts, and conducted experiments on growing plants under different conditions. Several students had difficulty with adults who wouldn't take them seriously when they tried to find information to help them investigate their problem. Michael, a 4th grader, called a local plant nursery for information about watering plants. —Cal, 4th grade student
Free Math Help - Lessons, tutoring, message board and more. Algebra, Geometry, Trig, Calculus... whatever level you're studying! Ingham ISD Mathematics - home DC-Helmet Challenge The Challenge: You are a sports equipment designer for the Sporting division of the AdVENTURE Goods Company. You have been hired to design a football helmet that can protect players and withstand a maximum impact speed. The team that comes up with the most effective design will get the contract for the account. Design Criteria: Your design must stay on the "skull", and keep it from cracking. We will be using an egg as a model for the skull. Your design must be lightweight and low profile (thin - no more than 0.5 cm in any direction).Your design must allow the user/test dummy to see (i.e it cannot cover the whole egg)Your design must be removable (i.e. you have to be able to remove the helmet from your head, while at the same time it must remain on the head during testing).Your design must be inexpensive but attractive. Design Constraints: All materials must be purchased or licensed through the AdVENTURE Goods Company.
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Project Based Learning: The 10 Step Plan For any District, this is a brave step into the unknown. There is a dramatic difference between conventional instruction and a student-focused, inquiry-based approach. Often, this can show up in poorly planned projects that leave students, teachers and administrative staff dissatisfied with results. PBL is a sophisticated methodology, with many moving parts, and teachers and staff developers may not recognize how challenging it is to implement—or how difficult to train for. But it can be done right. Prepare the Ground. Thom Markham, Ph.D., is an educator, psychologist, recent author of the Project Based Learning Design and Coaching Guide: Expert tools for inquiry and innovation for K-12 educators, and the principal author of the Handbook for Project Based Learning, published by the Buck Institute for Education. Related Articles Comments & Ratings
Cell Phones in Online and Blended Learning Environments by Lesley Reilly on Prezi Toy to Tool: Cell Phones in Learning Mathematics Fun, Fact, Fiction, Function, Fantasy Here is a collection of mathematical activities and curiosities...enjoy them! BRAND NEW 2008 Line of Fractal Imagery -- 594 Images -- Oh Wow! ---> Show me the fractals! Guess Your Birthday! Here's a fun trick to show a friend, a group, or an entire class of people. Step 1) Have them take the month number from their birthday: January = 1, Feb = 2 etc. Have them give you the total. How It Works: Let M be the month number and D will be the day number. Thus, if you subtract off the 165, what will remain will be the month in hundreds plus the day! By the way, if you wish to know how many minutes and seconds you have been alive and lots more about when you were born, you might like to try this website ==> Birthday Calculator Divisibility Rules! To find if some number X is divisible by a certain number, test the number by using the information in the table below. *A big thank you to Torsten Sillke for these rules! Do You Love "Alphametics?" Good Mathematical Card Trick Say the total was 23. Primes!
The Thirty Greatest Mathematicians Click for a discussion of certain omissions. Please send me e-mail if you believe there's a major flaw in my rankings (or an error in any of the biographies). Obviously the relative ranks of, say Fibonacci and Ramanujan, will never satisfy everyone since the reasons for their "greatness" are different. I'm sure I've overlooked great mathematicians who obviously belong on this list. Please e-mail and tell me! Following are the top mathematicians in chronological (birth-year) order. Earliest mathematicians Little is known of the earliest mathematics, but the famous Ishango Bone from Early Stone-Age Africa has tally marks suggesting arithmetic. Early Vedic mathematicians The greatest mathematics before the Golden Age of Greece was in India's early Vedic (Hindu) civilization. Top Thales of Miletus (ca 624 - 546 BC) Greek domain Apastambha (ca 630-560 BC) India Pythagoras of Samos (ca 578-505 BC) Greek domain Panini (of Shalatula) (ca 520-460 BC) Gandhara (India) Tiberius(?) Geocentrism vs.