MATH TOOLS NEWSLETTER - November 26, 2012 - No. 114 ***SAVED ITEMS FEATURE Are you taking advantage of the "Saved Item" feature? As you are browsing the Math Tools catalog and you find a resource that you'd like to be able to find again, login and once you click the "Save This" link, that catalog page will be added to your My MathTools area. If you'd like more detailed instructions, check this PDF: http://mathforum.org/mathtools/NavigatingMathTools.pdf \|/ ***FEATURED TOOL Tool: Data Games: Markov http://mathforum.org/mathtools/tool/185848/ KCP Technologies and U Mass-Amherst Students play Roshambo against the evil Dr. Markov. If they win, they can save a captive dog. Students can improve their odds of winning by analyzing data in a two-way frequency table and recognizing the patterns in Markov's actions. [Access requires setting up a (free) login.] ***FEATURED TOOL Tool: 5 Dice: Order of Operations Game http://mathforum.org/mathtools/tool/186829/ Justin Holladay This app helps upper elementary and middle school students enjoy practicing order of operations. The game encourages students to use higher order thinking to solve the "target" number by working backwards given the answer but not the equation. Teachers are able to receive immediate feedback of their students' progress through email. ***FEATURED TOOL Tool: How Much Pizza to Order? http://mathforum.org/mathtools/tool/186520/ Maurici Carbo The program raises the problem from a hypothetical party where the guests ask for a specific fraction of pizza. Guests can only choose two types of pizza for each party. The program calls for the total amount of pizza to order. There is a video as support material. This activity was inspired by Cynthia Lanius's online activity, Who Wants Pizza? ***FEATURED TOOL Tool: Data Games: Proximity http://mathforum.org/mathtools/tool/188432/ KCP Technologies Inc. and U Mass-Amherst Students shoot a ball and earn higher scores the closer they are to hitting a target. They can improve their scores by interpreting data from the linear model that relates the distance of the target to how hard they shoot. [Access requires setting up a (free) login.] ***FEATURED TOOL Tool: Place Value Chart http://mathforum.org/mathtools/tool/181488/ Ulrich Kortenkamp This iPad/iPhone/iPod touch app provides an interactive place value chart. You can place tokens by touching the screen and move them around with your finger(s). Moving tokens between different places is only possible when moving from a higher to a lower place, or when enough supplementary tokens are available to be bundled. Removing tokens can be done by moving them to the top. The tool can be used either to demonstrate place value, or for self-exploring by students. One possible activity could be to find the fastest way to remove a certain number of tokens (say, 3 hundreds, 8 tens and 7 ones). ***FEATURED TOOL Tool: OpenArithmetic http://mathforum.org/mathtools/tool/178640/ Gerd Wagner and the Ari team OpenArithmetic.org, built by a group of people at the Chair of Internet Technology, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany, is dedicated to the idea of providing open educational resources for K-6 arithmetic on the web with the help of the new powerful capabilities of HTML5. Their goal is to support the creation of interactive multi-media arithmetic contents that are also accessible on mobile devices, especially on tablet PCs. ***FEATURED TOOL Tool: Learning to Reason http://mathforum.org/mathtools/tool/181386/ Nancy Rodgers The author states, "When we reason within a logical framework, words must be manipulated according to the rules of the game...." Her site offers an opportunity to learn about the terms "not," "and," "or," "implies," "is equivalent to," "for all," and "for some"; logical reasoning and expressing it in writing; sets, relations, and more. Games consist of four auto-scoring Flash challenges in negation and equivalence. This site accompanies Rodgers' book by the same title. ***FEATURED TOOL Tool: Create your own Math Quiz http://mathforum.org/mathtools/tool/181388/ Quizzes.cc Use the menus and text boxes to create your own quizzes on addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division -- or browse from among a selection. Click the appropriate button to reveal answers, grade responses, or generate new problems. ***FEATURED DISCUSSION Interactive 3D graph plotter http://mathforum.org/mathtools/discuss.html?&do=m&thread=___tool__g-31 GraphPlotter announces, "Explore beautiful 3D graph plots in any browser, no flash: http://pillarunt.net/3dgraphplotter" ***FEATURED DISCUSSION Launch of Data Games - free online web app http://mathforum.org/mathtools/discuss.html?&do=m&thread=_____dev-104 rgaston writes "KCP Technologies has launched a new website... offering free access to Data Games. Data Games is a web application that embeds simple games in a data analysis environment. It is intended for use in mathematics classrooms grades 7 to 12." \|/ As you browse the catalog, please take a moment to rate a resource, comment on it, review it -- join an existing conversation, or start a new discussion! 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