So, there are a few other blogs on my own personal list, that I read occasionally. One of them, the math Curmudgeon, is, as you will see, not a fan of SMART boards. However, regardless of any differences of opinion we might have about SMART boards being useful, I think you’ll also look at the […]
“John Lennon thought that the number 9 brought him luck…most days. John was born on October 9th 1940 in Liverpool.( 9 letters) Discovered on Nov 9th 1961, on Ed Sullivan Feb 9th. The Beatles called it quit after 9 year. Met Yoko Ono on Nov 9th 1966, they had a son Sean, born 9 year […]
St. Croix Central High School seems to be technology friendly in more than one aspect; the cell phones friendliness of the school is what took me, personally, by surprise. My copperating teacher, Tricia Rogers, thinks that cell phones can be used to the students’ and teachers’ advantage in the classroom. Most of the studnets in […]
Riley Lark over at Point of Inflection has been trying out CPM. He mostly loves it (except of course where he doesn’t). Check out his perspectives in these 3 posts. Why CPM is killing my blog Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! What do you mean, “relevant”?
We talk a lot about using manipulatives in the classroom and I stumbled across these prime number manipulatives that a teacher came up with. He used Scrabble tiles and wrote on the back of them. He admitted to runing about 5 Scrabble games in the process, but you can always use them in the game […]
I personally love youtube. It can give you short clips that can be nice to use as hooks or to develope problems. However, some of the information may not be correct and some of the posts may be inappropriate for the school setting. That is why Teacher Tube is nice. There are a variety of […]
I have been doing some searching on the terms we were discussing in class today. I thought the definitions were not cleared up for everyone but this is what I tried to display on the board. I found the mathematical definitions on dictionary.com: accuracy Mathematics. the degree of correctness of a quantity, expression, etc.Compare precision […]
I was browsing through some of the blogs by others and found this article mentioned in the blog Continuous Everywhere but Differentiable Nowhere. It is kind of a long article but really made me think about the education we are getting as pre-service teachers. It also mentions a book, that I want to buy as […]
Students should usually have their math facts down pat by 6th grade, but some don’t…. I found a math game, that if combined with some kind of reward for achieving a certain score and time, would be good for those students lacking in knowledge of basic multiplication and division tables. This online math game essentially represents flash cards, […]
Teaching with SmartBoard The above link is a cool site I’ve found that has some fun tips on teaching with a SmartBoard if you get the opportunity!! Hope you all are enjoying the School-Field Experiences; I know I am!