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…
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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…
Using Graph Paper to Make Art & Develop Math Skills by @EveryoneCanMath
Finding the math in the world around us is one of my favourite things. I love pointing out math topics that can be discussed from objects that seemingly don’t hold any math in them.
Math Teachers: Using GeoGebra in Remote Learning
GeoGebra is a digital math platform. Perhaps like me, you’ve had some preconceptions about GeoGebra and didn’t think it quite fit in with what you are doing with your math students. However, GeoGebra works great no matter your topic! Heck, you could use it for non math topics as well. GeoGebra allows you to create…
Math: Remote Learning with Youcubed WIM
Youcubed out of Stanford is on a mission to reframe mathematics education. That there is no such thing as a math person, we are all good at math! Week of Inspirational Math The first step is to help students to have a growth mindset towards math. Youcubed provides what they call “Week of Inspirational Math.”…
Math Teachers – Remote Learning with EquatIO
EquatIO Mathspace for Student Math Work Texthelp, the makers of Read&Write, have videos on their site to help with remote learning. EquatIO math space is an open canvas for students to add math, shapes, and text. New Space Click on “New Space” to open up a math canvas. The toolbar along the bottom allows you…
Math Twitter Hashtags
Follow These Hashtags on Twitter How do you keep up? You can’t. There is no way we can know everything about teaching, about learning, and about mathematics. This is the beauty of Twitter. It is bite sized, 280 character or less, of learning. Follow a Hashtag A hashtag is a topic. When you tweet something…
Desmos – For Math Teachers
Desmos Changes How We Teach Math desmos.com Desmos is so much more than an online graphing calculator. Check out teacher.desmos.com for building interactive math lessons. Desmos allows us to move from doing math to exploring math. Try out this slope of the line activity to “Land the plane” from desmos.com Built in Discussion Classroom discussion…
SlideShot Math with Desmos
Use the SlideShot Chrome Extension with Desmos Desmos is so much more than an online graphing calculator. Demos helps shift the math classroom from students doing math to exploring math. “Math is about pattern finding.” – Youcubed One of the shifts in teaching mathematics is away from “Show your work” to “Show your thinking.” Exploring…
Math Recess: Thinking Mathematically
Math Recess: Play to Increase Thinking Mathematically Guest blog post by Dr. Chris Brownell Have you ever played the 50 game with students? This is the game where you challenge students to beat you at a game of removing numbers from 50 until such time that the person who has to take the last number…
A Reason to Be Nerdy Today: Adjusting LaTex in EquatIO
Adjust the Font Size in EquatIO EquatIO is a Chrome extension that works in G Suite (and Office 365). This allows you to insert math symbols IN A MAGICAL WAY into Google Slides, Docs, Sheets, and Forms. A little tip for anyone that uses EquatIO for GSlides: instead of inserting an equation and then making…
Polyup – A Thinking Playground
A Virtual Mathematical Playground Guest Post by Shaya Zarkesh Polyup is a computational thinking playground. Students from elementary through high school can play with puzzles involving numbers and functions. In a drag-and-drop, expression-building environment, students will create expressions that evaluate to a target value or values. Polyup has recently integrated with Google Classroom. Teachers can…
Consumer Math for the 21st Century
What Should be Consumer Math? Recently I was looking up consumer math online. Specifically, I was looking for a curriculum that utilized spreadsheets. Not that I exhausted all of the options, but many of the ones I looked at were horribly outdated. So what should be included in a consumer math program for the 21st…
Four Activities to Celebrate Halloween in your Math Class by @jmacattak
Celebrate Halloween with Fun Math Activities – All Treats, No Tricks A Guest Post by John McGowan, Product Manager, Texthelp At Texthelp, we love Halloween. After all, it gives you the opportunity to take things that are normally scary (spiders, ghosts, clowns) and turn them into something fun. Who doesn’t love a good costume party?!…
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