Photomath is NOT cheating. It is time to stop burying out heads in the sand and pretending that students are not going to use Photomath.
Category: Math
Digital Math Manipulatives with Mathigon
Digital Math Manipulatives are free and easy. Check out how to provide students with the digital tools they need to explore mathematical concepts.
Fight Photomath – Use Graspable Math
Join me to learn about how Graspable Math can help with transforming your math class. Students are cheating with Photomath, let’s look at some alternatives!
Join CMC in Support of the Draft CA Mathematics Framework
Support the California Math Mathematics Framework. Sign the letter.
FREE Math Puzzles for K-12
In this guest post by Alice Aspinall, she shares number puzzles she made for her own children. Alice Keeler made a Math Puzzle spreadsheet we all can use for students K-12!
Summer of Math 2021 with Howie Hua
Join the Summer of Math 2021 Guest Blog by Howie Hua Note: this event has passed. I highly recommend you follow Howie Hua on TikTok or Twitter. See below for a sample of a low floor high ceiling question Last Summer I created a weekly math session called “Math Summer” where teachers do math together…
Free Illustrative Math in GeoGebra
GeoGebra is 100% FREE Use Illustrative Math Curriculum Illustrative Mathematics is a free, creative commons OER math curriculum that takes a more modern approach to how we teach mathematics. GeoGebra has taken the Illustrative Mathematics curriculum and kicked it up a notch….FOR FREE. Preview High School Curriculum This free curriculum is available in GeoGebra for…
Voice Type Your Math
EquatIO works with Google Docs, Sheets, Forms, Slides, Jamboard, and more to add math to these products. It is FREE for teachers. You will need to install the Chrome extension and fill out the form to make your free trial into a free premium subscription. You can VERBALLY type your math! Voice Typing There are…
Google Jamboard: Using Open Middle Math Problems
Teach math and critical thinking using Open Middle and Google Jamboard. Using Jamboard allows students to show their thinking.
FREE DIGITAL MATH CURRICULUM: Illustrative Math in GeoGebra
Illustrative Math is FREE Open Source CURRICULUM. This is not just some supplemental resources, but rather something you can fully adopt for your classroom. GeoGebra is also completely free. GeoGebra allows for interactive exploration of math concepts. High School & Elementary Curriculum Coming out this summer (2021) will be the math curriculum for high school…
GeoGebra Classroom: Students Make Constructions
I am digging teaching with with GeoGebra this year. In my quest to start a lesson by having students do the thinking I wanted to use GeoGebra classroom to have students construct a Chord, Central Angle, and Inscribed Angle. However, I had a failure in setting up the activity. My buddy Tim Brzezinski is the…
Teach Math for Deep Understanding By Sunil Singh
“We fumble teaching kids mathematics right from the start. We continue the historical trepidation of negative numbers in school. Teach math for deep meaning and understanding vs. temporary correctness for some benign test.” – Sunil Singh Try Zero Sums No more memorizing “negative and negative give positive”. The power/flexibility of zero pairs AND the understanding…
MATH: Saving GeoGebra Files
I have really been getting into GeoGebra for teaching math. Geometry Puzzles I created several puzzles in GeoGebra for my students to show the properties of parallelograms. Notice the GeoGebra file link in the speaker notes. I wanted all the puzzles together in one place so I used Google Slides. I was assigning only one…
Duplicate Objects in GeoGebra
GeoGebra is an excellent way to let students explore math concepts. GeoGebra is great for grades K – college. When creating elements in a GeoGebra applet you will need to be able to duplicate objects. Tim Brzezinzski, the GeoGebra expert, helps me, Victoria Thompson, and Chris Brownell explore duplicating (and other things) in GeoGebra. Sign…
Teach Math Remotely with GeoGebra
Guest Blog post by Tim Brzezinski Recently, many districts have announced plans that require teachers to facilitate some level of remote instruction. If this is the case for you, you don’t need to stress! Your virtual math class can be fully engaging, student-centered, and discovery-based with using GeoGebra. Even better: You don’t need tech-expertise to…