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Cool Websites

As requested, here is a link to the Google Art Project, where you can explore some famous museums.  Also see Google Maps’ Street View feature for more fun.

2011 04 11 Math Teaching Ideas
Technology in teaching
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TI 83 Emulator!!!!

The following is a link to a TI 83 Emulator.  You must download the vti.zip file, unzip it, then open the .exe file. Enjoy!

2011 04 08 algebra
calculators
calculus
computers
General teaching tips
Math Teaching Ideas
probability
statistics
Technology in teaching
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Type 1 Lesson – Population Simulation

I found a lesson on the PBS Teacher’s website that incorporates many mathematical concepts just in time for Earth day!  The lesson focuses on the linear modeling of population growth and decay.  The guided approach to this lesson defines it as a Type 1 lesson.

2011 03 24 Uncategorized Comments (1)

Applets

Through searching for interesting and educationally valuable applets, my search yielded the following results: Here is a nice applet for visualizing angles formed by parallel lines and a transversal. Need help seeing the dot product?  This applet lets you visualize the dot product by moving to vectors.  All the calculations are displayed on the right. […]

2011 02 20 Uncategorized Comments (0)

Annual Daylight Patterns

Microsoft’s Education site has a few good lesson plan ideas that incorporate their Office software.  Here is a lesson investigating the patterns of average daylight.  This could perhaps be investigated by our trig/pre-calculus students.

2011 02 04 Uncategorized Comments (1)