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In This Issue
The Exponential Curve - Dan Greene
What Is Blogger?
Materials for Math Teaching - Antonija Horvatek
Noetic Learning Math Worksheet Creator
Free Online
Opportunities
For teachers of students in grades 3-5:
Tools for Building Math Concepts
For teachers of students in grades 5-9:
Using Technology and Problem Solving to Build Algebraic Reasoning
For all students:
tPoWs
For students in grades 9-10:
the MathMentor
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The Exponential Curve - Dan Greene
http://exponentialcurve.blogspot.com/
A blog by Dan Greene, a math teacher at Downtown College Prep charter high school (San Jose, California), where the students "... are primarily Latino, are far below grade level in their math and reading skills, and will be the first in their families to go to college. We refer to our students as being on an exponential learning curve: the average level in math of our incoming freshmen is 5th grade, and we need to get them to a 12th grade level in 4 short years."
Greene describes the purpose of his blog, which dates back to June, 2006, as helping "generate and share ideas for teaching high school math concepts to students whose skills are below grade level."
Posts have included
- Next Lesson: Rational Functions
- I'm more afraid of the midterm than they are...
- NCTM standards vs. California Algebra standards?
- Next Lesson: The Hidden Dangers of Simplifying
- Yours is not to reason why...just invert and multiply!
What Is Blogger?
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=41354&topic=10424
To produce "The Exponential Curve," Greene uses Blogger, a free web-based tool for publishing to the web instantly. Blogger automates the blog publishing process while letting you retain total control over the look and location of your blog. Just submit a simple form on the Blogger web site -- no server software or scripts required.
Materials for Math Teaching - Antonija Horvatek
http://public.carnet.hr/~ahorvate/materials-English.htm
Antonija Horvatek, a math teacher in Croatia, offers her Geometer's Sketchpad (.gsp) files and Power Point (.ppt) files that explain:
- fractions
- decimal numbers
- integers
- rational numbers
- equations
- functions
- perimeter and area
- plane transformations
- Pythagoras' theorem
- space geometry
- statistics and probability
We discovered Antonija's materials from her post on the geometry.software.dynamic discussion hosted on the Math Forum site:
http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=5789191
Noetic Learning Math Worksheet Creator
http://www.noetic-learning.com/mathdrill/index.jsp
Noetic Learning LLC offers a worksheet generator for the following topics:
- Addition
- Subtraction
- Multiplication
- Division
- Money
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