digital toolbox for maths teaching and learning
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A Digital Toolbox for Maths Teaching and Learning
Britt Gow, 2015
Science and Maths teacherHawkesdale P12 College
SW Victoria
Technomaths blog since 2010
Twitter @brittgow [email protected]
Technomaths
www.technomaths.edublogs.org
Why teach Maths with technology?
• Adds another dimension to learning• Provides a professional looking product • Allows sharing with a wider audience• Can engage students with images and video• Students can demonstrate what they know• Employers expect students to be able to use
variety of tools• Allows for differentiation (eg. Mathletics)
Padlet – on computers & mobile devices
• Feedback from students• Brainstorming• What students already know about a topic• Exit slips• Choosing a topic or next unit of work• Introducing students at the beginning of the
year• Questions about a lesson or unit of work
https://padlet.com/my/padlets
Skitch – an app for mobile devices or Comic Life - for both computers and
mobile devices
• Use Skitch or Comic Life to annotate images• Label length, width and height for surface area
and volume calculations• Radius and diameter of circles• Estimate ratio and proportion
Google Earth
• Take an aerial photo of a farm, stadium or building and use the measuring tools to estimate the area.
• Measurement and ratio, calculating distance.
Grand Prix circuit – time vs distance graph
Using Excel spreadsheet and graphs
ConCensus from ABC Splash
http://concensus.splash.abc.net.au/concensus-game/
https://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/
Create-A-Graph with ConCensus data
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
http://nlvm.usu.edu/
Algebra Balance Scales
Line Plotter – given a point & gradient
Sieve of Eratosthenes – for primes
Prime Factor Trees
Tessellations.org
Time Zones across the world
Google Forms for Student Surveys
• Get to know your new class• Collect student data for Probability and
Statistics• Use the data for graphing, calculating mean,
median, mode and range.• Draw a pie chart and compare with the
computer-generated version.
Google Forms for Surveys
Thanks for your participation in this session!
Feel free to contact me by email or Twitter @brittgow
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YouTube - Nature by Numbers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkGeOWYOFoA