Apps in Education Number Sense How many Peeps are sold at Easter time each year? Treat your students to some authentic and delicious math as they estimate, consider reasonability, determine necessary info, problem solve and conduct random samplings. The activity, hints and data are below. Read more → That’s Jerry, my nephew, waving. Read more → It happens to me every year. Read more → Passover begins this year on Monday evening, April 14th, with a Passover seder dinner. Read more → Northern Chili and Los Angeles, California have experienced recent earthquakes. Read more → In this activity students decide how to divide 2 pizzas amongst 6 adults and 3 pizzas amongst 8 kids. Read more → We have two classic puzzles for your April 1st class starters. Read more → Based on this data, which do you think is the greatest March Madness program ever? Read more → Its time to go get the latest iPhone, the 5s. Read more → Read more → One Billions Dollars for The Perfect Bracket? Read more → During the St. Read more → Read more → Read more →
What’s Cooking in your iClassroom? While educators know that math is all around us, sometimes students have a difficult time grasping its impact on our every day activities. Though the apps listed below may not inherently scream proportions, rate, sequences, and percentages, they very easily lend themselves to providing creative and engaging connections to real world problem-solving activities. Some of the apps can be used as hooks and others to provide data for further problem-solving or to spark discussion. (App Screenshots added to and displayed with XNote app with customizable graph paper background). Real-World Math meets Edutainment curated with XNote app Farmers Market: This tool provides users with 4 different vendors and 4 different customers. Carnazzo's Multiplication Stories utilizing My PlayHome and iPen
bloomsapps Using Blooms Taxonomy in education is a highly effective way to scaffold learning for the students. With the recent popularity and pervasive nature of iOS devices in school districts it is essential for educators to understand how to implement Blooms in the classroom using the apps that are available. While this list is by no means fully comprehensive, it will assist educators in getting started when implementing iOS devices in the classroom. This site will change almost daily as it will be updated with new and exciting apps! If you find any that you have worked with in your classroom please email dmileham@e1b.org or tweet @bloomsapps or @dmileham75 with your suggestions. Thanks for checking the site! Two Links to some iTunesU courses relating to iOS Integration: 1 iPad by Erie 1 Boards of Cooperative Educational Services ( Movie Making\Digital Storytelling Camera to PDF Free - cool little app that turns your device into a scanner.
The Game That Is Worth 1,000 Worksheets [Rescued from my old blog. Image via Wikipedia.] Math concepts: greater-than/less-than, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, negative numbers, absolute value, and multi-step problem solving. Have you and your children been struggling to learn the math facts? Set Up You will need several decks of math cards. As my students learn their math facts, they need extra practice on the hard-to-remember ones like 6 × 8. [This is an old, classic children’s game. How to Play Basic War—Each player turns one card face up. Endgame When the players have fought their way through the entire deck, count the prisoners. Variations For most variations, the basic 3-down-1-up battle pattern becomes 2-down-2-up. Addition War—Players turn up two cards for each skirmish. Advanced Addition War—Turn up three (or four) cards for each skirmish and add them together. Subtraction War—Players turn up two cards and subtract the smaller number from the larger. Product War—Turn up two cards and multiply.
20 random iPad Maths Apps that help cover all areas of curriculum Around this time last year, I wrote a post about the lack of engaging Maths apps on the iPad that went beyond “skill and drill” number activities. Since then, developers have introduced a greater range of apps across all areas of the Maths curriculum that can be used to enhance the Maths teaching and learning in your classroom. Here’s a selection of 20 apps that cover Number and Algebra, Measurement and Geometry, and Statistics and Probability ( these are the Content strands (CS) Australia’s Mathematics curriculum has been categorized under ). Undecided (free at time of writing) CS -Statistics and Probability PS – Reasoning Decide Now! Does what Undecided doesn’t with spinner. DragonBox+ ($6.49 – expensive for multiple copies) Despite the cost, which would be prohibitive for some schools with limited budgets, this is a clever app for building conceptual understanding of the principles for balancing algebraic equations. CS – Number and Algebra PS – Understanding, Problem Solving, Reasoning
- Best iPad App Developers 0 Comments December 19, 2011 By: Vicki Windman Dec 18 Written by: 12/18/2011 5:09 PM ShareThis As the search for the best education apps continues, certain developers are working diligently to expand from a single app to an entire line of apps. Jungle Education has three colorful apps that are multi-lingual, multiple levels and tracks student progress. eskillslearning has apps in reading comprehension, language arts, and math. Has nearly 30 apps for speech therapy, including apps for autism, apraxia, articulation, caseload management, dysphagia, fluency/stuttering, language skills, oral motor, Spanish and screening and testing. Has over 14 apps from Course Assistant Apps: Pre algebra, calculus, multivariable calculus, statistics, astronomy, music theory, physics, chemistry to reference apps: US Presidents, Words, to US States. Has grades one through three full-version math apps.
Overview | LMR - Development Site Learning Mathematics through Representations (LMR) is a research-based curriculum unit for the teaching and learning of integers and fractions in the elementary grades, using the number line as the principal representational context. The curriculum builds on two core ideas: mathematical representations are fundamental to mathematical communication and learning, and curriculum units should be designed as well-orchestrated lesson sequences that support insight and understanding of representational forms. The members of the LMR staff bring expertise in developmental and educational research, curriculum development, pre-service education and professional development, and elementary classroom teaching. The LMR team is led by Geoffrey B. Saxe and includes additional faculty and graduate students in the Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley. Use the menus above to explore the following links: Who can use the LMR curriculum materials?
Maths Through Stories It seems obvious to plan primary English work around stories and texts. Whether we use short stories, picture books, animated films, novels, oral tales or any other form of story to engage children and give them a focus for their writing, the results speak for themselves. We can use the Talk for Writing model of imitate; innovate; invent and children are guided through the writing process, supported by the wonderful world of stories. We know that stories engage and capture children’s imaginations Why then, do we not think in the same way for maths? There are some great examples of books written specifically for maths teaching. Even the most reluctant of mathematicians cannot fail to be hooked into discussions about place value, multiplying and dividing by How Many Jellybeans? However, there are also the less obvious books: books not written to address mathematical concepts but which engage children and start them off on mathematical adventures. Been inspired by this article?
30 Useful iPad Apps for Business & Presentation Apple sold more than 1 million copies of iPads in the first 3 months. This gadget is definitely more than just a larger version of iPhone or iPod touch. With 4x the screen of an iPhone, the iPad’s display is ideal for reading and for presentations. In today’s post, we’d like to highlight some really useful iPad applications that might replace the things you do daily with your laptop or netbook. Full list after jump. Presentations KeynoteKeynote is the most powerful presentation app ever designed for a mobile device. CorkulousCorkulous is incredible idea board for iPad to collect, organize, and share your ideas that feel completely natural. Power Presenter This application is used for Presentation. Sadun’s WhiteboardTransform your iPad into a presentation screen with Whiteboard. Graph, Charts, Diagram & Statistic Analytics HDThe premier app for Google Analytics, Analytics App, now debuts on the iPad as Analytics HD! Idea BoardsA simple easy way to put your ideas somewhere. Planning Meetings
The Must-Have App Review Rubric Added by Jeff Dunn on 2011-11-22 So you just downloaded a few educational apps that you think might be useful in your classroom. How do you accurately compare and contrast them? Thanks to a new app review rubric from by eMobilize , it’s easier than ever to understand just how useful an app may be in the classroom. On a related note, the Edudemic Directory features many educational apps and lets you quickly compare them to see how they stack up. Give it a try today! I’ve rewritten the original rubric from eMobilize and tailored it to fit all school districts. Download The Rubric Here (PDF) Overview of the App App Title: App Publisher/Developer: Version: Link to App Store: Curriculum Compliance Yes/ No – Is it relevant to the curriculum framework? Operational Yes/ No – Is navigation easy? Pedagogy Yes/ No – Does the material accommodate diverse ways in which students learn? Comments are closed.