The Mathist & Google Drive | The Mathist
Nowadays, Google Drive means a great opportunity for teachers and students to embrace the 4Cs of 21st century education – communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity. We found this really inspirational and creative pin-board that illustrates some of the best ways to use technology to your advantage in the classroom: Lets dive into the features that can boost your productivity and help you seize the day with your students. We strongly believe that such technologies will transform the ways we teach, study and work together. Like this: Like Loading...
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10 interactive math apps for K-12 students
By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor, @eSN_Laura Read more by Laura Devaney January 13th, 2014 These 10 math apps can boost student enthusiasm for math subjects Research has proven that developing and sustaining students’ interest in math at an early age leads to future success in more difficult and complex math courses. With the emergence of mobile and handheld devices through both one-to-one and bring-your-own-technology initiatives, students and teachers have more access to tools and apps to aid in math instruction and learning. Following are 10 such apps. [Editor's note: Prices are current as of press time. 1. This logic game is based on simple math equations. (Next page: Nine more math apps)
10 Apps for Math Fluency
There are so many ways to use mobile devices with students. You can create interactive textbooks for children to read, ask them to explain their thinking through screencasting or help them access informational text using QR codes. Mobile devices can also be used to help students practice foundational math skills and build their math fluency. In order for students to tackle the multi-step word problems they'll be asked to solve as early as elementary school, they need to have mastered their addition, subtraction and multiplication facts. Operation Math (iOS - $2.99, Android - $1.99) This app turns your students into secret spies that will travel around the world on different missions. Sushi Monster (iOS - Free) Scholastic's app offers children multiplication and addition problems. Quick Math - Arithmetic & Times Tables (iOS - $1.99) With this app, kids will answer traditional skill-and-drill questions -- but they won't have to enter answers into a keypad. Meerkat Math HD (iOS - $1.99)
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Exploring with Math Trails: Using Pictures to Expand Students Awareness of the World
Math is all around us. Finding opportunities for students to see the math around them can be accomplished with math trails. There are two types of math trails. The first, a virtual math trail, uses pictures from a particular area. The phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words” certainly applies to the area of math. A math trail, whether presented in pictures or in person, should tell a story of the area. Although the information contained within this activity will concentrate on a virtual math trail, an on‑location math trail can be developed in the same way. The following example of a virtual math trail of Mackinac Island, in Michigan, uses pictures to describe some of the history of the area as well as to illuminate mathematical concepts. Math Trail of Mackinac Island Images for Mackinac Island The Grand Hotel is one of the first things you see as you approach Mackinac Island. As you look at the outside of this hotel it, notice the many different geometric shapes. Learning Objectives
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Math concepts + teamwork = big gains at struggling Renton school | Education
Originally published July 14, 2014 at 8:54 PM | Page modified July 16, 2014 at 10:02 AM Nearly three years ago, Elham Kazemi stood before teachers at Lakeridge Elementary with more bad news about their students’ math skills. The teachers at the Renton School District school already knew they had a big problem. But Kazemi, a University of Washington professor, had more distressing details. When she and her colleagues asked students to solve a half-dozen word problems, most just added numbers together, even if the problem asked them to subtract or multiply. Only a very few fifth-graders could solve problems with the skill that, in other schools, was common in third or even second grade. Principal Jessica Calabrese, then new to the school, can still picture Kazemi in the school library that day, wearing a long cardigan and a look of pain. “It wasn’t just some students struggling,” Calabrese said, “it was nearly all of them.” Labeled as failing Ideas from students Adjusting instruction
STatistics Education Web (STEW)
One of the goals of the American Statistical Association is to improve statistics education at all levels. Through the STatistics Education Web (STEW), the ASA is reaching out to K-12 mathematics and science teachers who teach statistics concepts in their classrooms. STEW is an online resource for peer-reviewed lesson plans for K-12 teachers. Statistics and probability concepts are included in K-12 curriculum standards, in particular the Common Core State Standards, and on state and national exams; however, few K-12 teachers have formal training or applied experience with statistical concepts. STEW lesson plans identify both the statistical concepts being developed and the age range appropriate for its use. Lesson Plans Grades K - 5 Grades 6 - 8 Grades 9 - 12
Developing brains switch maths strategies
Philippe Lissac/Godong/Corbis Children develop more efficient strategies for tackling maths problems as their brains mature. For most adults, adding small numbers requires little effort, but for some children, it can take all ten fingers and a lot of time. Research published online on 17 August in Nature Neuroscience1 suggests that changes in the hippocampus — a brain area associated with memory formation — could help to explain how children eventually pick up efficient strategies for mathematics, and why some children learn more quickly than others. Vinod Menon, a developmental cognitive neuroscientist at Stanford University in California, and his colleagues presented single-digit addition problems to 28 children aged 7–9, as well as to 20 adolescents aged 14–17 and 20 young adults. Committed to memory The researchers saw this developmental change begin to unfold when they tested the same children at two time points, about one year apart. Connections that count
