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Math Links Galore!

hbarnes — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:30:15 +0000

Here is a great website full of different links leading to math activities to be used in the classroom! So when your students have finish their assignments early and want something to do, this is a great website to refer back to!

Do You Like Pi?

hbarnes — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:51:00 +0000

Here is a discussion website showing how many numbers of pi people can actually remember. See how far you can get! There may be some methods of others that might help you get further than they did!

Fraction Practice

hbarnes — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:37:56 +0000

I had the worst time with fractions during my elementary and middle school years. I remember never understanding what my teachers were trying to explain and getting so frustrated. Only if I had access to this website, my troubles as a growing student wouldn’t have been so bad. This website provides tons of links to different levels of fractions that can become great lesson tools for teachers to use!

Interactive Math Games

hbarnes — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:33:38 +0000

Here is a great website full of different math activities for students to use! The great part of the website is it can be used as a great tool for homework as teachers can assign different links from this site as assignments. Take a look and see if you can gain some ideas or inspirations!

Facebook & Twitter: The New Teaching Tool

hbarnes — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:30:10 +0000

Growing up, Facebook was always banned from my high school. Teachers found Facebook to be a painful, pointless website that was just popular for its time. That “fab” everyone thought wouldn’t last is now taking over! Today, Facebook and even Twitter is taking over the lives of many students making world of connections even larger. With such a high popularity in student use, College Bound Network takes a closer look on how Facebook and Twitter can actually help learning in the classroom instead of remaining that nonsense teachers always thought it was before!

SMART Boards = Smart Lessons

hbarnes — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:24:50 +0000

Need ideas of how to use a SMART board in your classroom? Here is a website showing the endless possibilities of using a SMART board in the classroom especially for math teachers. Check it out! You may learn things you never knew about a SMART board!

Making Math Fun!

hbarnes — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:40:22 +0000

Here is a great website that shows what other teachers are doing with their math lessons using technology. There are some pretty neat ideas and examples that other teachers can bounce ideas off of. Also, there’s also links of other Internet websites that have interactive math activities. So if you are having troubles producing a math lesson for your students to love, this website seems to have the solution!

“Get Low”: Math Remix

hbarnes — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:38:11 +0000

Free Graphing Calculator? What?!

hbarnes — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:08:34 +0000

Don’t have the money to afford a graphing calculator? Try this online graphing calculator for free and compute away!

Oh the Wonderful Things Math and Technology can do!

hbarnes — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:38:14 +0000

Here is a great article from Edutopia online that shows the wonderful technologies that can be used during math lessons. Check it out! You may be able to find some ideas of how this website might help your future year of teaching!