ED 300 Technology Ideas

Sketchcasts are used for math tutorials for parents and students.

This is a blog that is very helpful for learning about different concepts in math, especially pascal’s triangle.

This website is very beneficial because it allows students to work with five different types of graphs that are used in mathematics to display data. The graphs are the bar, line, pie, area, and xy. There is a tutorial on how and why graphs are created. Then, the students are able to create the graphs using these different online resources of technology. The website also allows students to work on probability with dice and grabbing out of a bag. This is a great tool to help students pracitice with these different math concepts and be engaged at the same time.

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx

This is an example of bar graph and a pie chart.  These will both be helpful for students because these  are examples of the graphs that they will be creating using the link to the website above.

This website is very helpful because it provides teachers or parents with different ideas for math games, worksheets, and ways to help students who are struggling with math. There are several links within the blog that are helpful because they have math games, online websites, worksheets, and many other attributes that are helpful to learning different math concepts. The website is great website and is very useful to people seeking math help.

http://letsplaymath.wordpress.com/

This is a great website to help high school students develop their skills, especially if they are struggling and are below average for their grade. The website provides several visual examples of the concepts being taught and some tutorials or descriptions covering each of the concepts. There are several links that lead to each different activities on each of the different concepts, like Algebra 2, etc. I really likes this website and it is very beneficial to all students but especially students who are struggling with math.

http://exponentialcurve.blogspot.com/

This is a very helpful math blog, which has several links to online math resources. This is a fantastic website with several links within the blog on how to get more help with different math concepts. The blog includes online games, tutorials and several other websites with good math support.

http://homeschoolmath.blogspot.com/

This is an excellent website for giving teachers ideas on different lessons that integrate technology and why technology is used in the classroom. There are links within this page that allow for deeper instruction if needed. For example, if more information is needed on why technology is integrated or how to use graphic organizers for math, then a person could click on one of those links and get more instruction on those topics.

http://www.ctap4.org/math/di_general.htm

This website allows teachers to get different lesson ideas on how to integrate technology and what the technology will provide for the students. There are several links to several different grade levels but this link will lead to the technology integration in middle school math. There are lessons on having students create blogs to talk to each other and have discussions about math and there are lessons that deal with different websites, calculators, and many other ideas and why they are important.

http://www.amphi.com/departments/technology/standards/mmath.html

This is a website that gives teachers several different lessons for how technology is integrated into several different areas and it explains what the technology adds as the students or teachers use it during the lesson. There are other links within the website that allows teachers to go to a new window that gives a tutorial on a certain subject. For math, the teachers can develop lessons that have students use Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and other online websites. The website also tells how this technology impacts students and the lesson.

http://www.kto8.com/se/?gclid=CLCC2YW33ZMCFRItxwodHChWTQ

This is a great website that provides many visual examples and tutorials that allow the students to interact and practice solving different problems in math. This website mainly focuses on dealing fractions but it gives several different activities and games that students can do online and successfully practice with fraction concepts.

http://www.homeschoolmath.net/online/fractions.php