Presentation #3: Technology in Teaching Ashley Prindle

Website name and URL:

Garerth Pitchfords Primary Resources

www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/mathsB4.htm#1

Suitable age range: Who will use in the classroom:

Prek-3rd Teacher Resource

Connection to mathematics:

Provides worksheets on a variety of math topics. There are too many too list here,
but I will list a few. Some connections to mathematics include adding and
subtraction, place values, multiplication and division, patterns, time, and area.

Description:

This is a great resource for teachers! The website provides a collection of

templates, activities, and games, that have all been contributed by mathematics
teachers. The math section is broken up into sections that include math topics
such as measurement/space/shapes, numbers and the number system, general
resources, calculations, and solving problems.

Examples of how you would use it in the classroom:

- I would use this website as resource for myself, so that I could look at a
particular area of math and have a variety of math worksheets and possible
games that I could use for a particular unit at my fingertips.
- This website is also great for getting ideas to make your own worksheet or
game, since all of the content on this site comes from teachers. It really is a
great forum for teachers to share and learn about different resources and
share ideas.

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Website name and URL:

IXL (IXL Learning)

www.ixl.com/math/practice

Suitable age range: Who will use in the classroom:

PreK-8th (Elementary and Middle Teacher and Student Resource

Grades)
Connection to mathematics:

This website can be used for a number of math content areas. The website allows
students to practice with the state standards and allows teachers to be able to
track student progress with their math state standards.

Description:

This is a fantastic website and would be great for a teacher or school to get a
subscription to, so that teachers could use it in their classrooms. IXL contains
interactive practice tools to monitor student progress toward basic fact mastery.
However, the neatest part of this website is that all of the activities that are
provided are aligned to the common core standards. If a teacher has a
subscription each student gets a login and the teacher has access to the progress
reports of each child as they work through the different standards.

Examples of how you would use it in the classroom:

- I would use this website as a way to closely monitor and track student
progress toward meeting the common core state standards. I think that it
would be an especially useful site in mathematics, since as a teacher I
would get proficiency scores for each student and the reports would allow
me to quickly evaluate student aptitude and identify areas that students
are struggling with.
- A prescription/membership is required for this website, but as a teacher if
you had access it would make a great in class resource for students to use
during math lessons. Students could quickly login and answer twenty or so
questions for a particular standard and as a teacher I would get almost
instant feedback to track student understanding.
- This website serves a dual-purpose in a way since students are gaining
practice by working with the standards and answering questions about a
variety of math content areas. Great tool for sure!

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Website name and URL:

Annenberg/CPB

www.learner.org

Suitable age range: Who will use in the classroom:

Kindergarten-College Teacher Resource

Connection to mathematics:

The main purpose of this site as an educator would be to gain more information
about how to teach math effectively to students. This source offers a plethora of
different videos and resources for continued professional development for
teachers. The greatest part is that it is available for free!
Description:

This website offers professional development information and useful information

for any teacher who wants to learn about and teach mathematics. Although this
website doesnt have a ton of lesson plans, there are some included and they are
well done and useful. Many of the lesson plans provided are geared toward 6 th
grade and higher.

Examples of how you would use it in the classroom:

- This website is really just for teachers. I would mainly use it as a place to
go and look before a lesson to brush up on my knowledge if I wasnt feeling
prepared and to get ideas on how to approach an upcoming unit.
- Some of the topic areas are geometry, measurement, data-analysis,
statistics, numbers and operations, patterns, and fractions. All of the
professional development lessons have videos, notes, images, and
problems to work in with solutions.

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Website name and URL:

Cross the Swamp (BBC)

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/maths/crosstheswamp.shtml

Suitable age range: Who will use in the classroom:

1st to 3rd grade Student Resource

Connection to mathematics:

The Cross the Swamp game focuses on mathematics operations such as

multiplication, division, adding, and subtraction. Students gain a better
understanding of what operation is appropriate and how to get to the correct
product that is asked of them.
Description:

This is a British applet and asks students to supply missing operations and a
number to complete an equation. There are five different questions in a set,
each with three different levels of difficulty. Note: There are other games on this
website that students can use, I just especially liked this game and thought that
it would be particularly useful since many students struggle with mastering
basic concepts with multiplication, division, adding, and subtracting. This game
is also great for continued practice.

Examples of how you would use it in the classroom:

- I would allow students to use this website to help with mastery of operations
and too see if students understand what they need to know. Students could also
use this website during math class at the computer center in the classroom or
as a resource at home for additional practice. It is certainly a fun game and
allows students to print out their results or as a teacher you could simply
monitor and make notes on students progress.

Website name and URL:

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Thinking Blocks: Addition and Subtraction

www.thinkingblocks.com/ThinkingBlocks_AS/TB_AS_Main.html

Suitable age range: Who will use in the classroom:

1st and 2nd grade Student Resource

Connection to mathematics:

This website helps students to begin to develop meaning of operations. This

website is particularly useful for helping students develop a schema to separate
important information and to structure their thinking. I think that this website
can be particularly helpful for students who are struggling with knowing when to
add or subtract and determining whether a problem fits in the join or
separate classification.
Description:

Thinking Blocks is all about helping students model their answers and thinking
logically and systematically about solving a word problem. This website allows
students to use two-digit numbers, problems with multiple steps, including
compare, part-part-whole, and change examples. Students will also find helpful
instruction guides at the beginning of each game, making it easier for students to
catch on and know what they need to do to be successful at each game.

Examples of how you would use it in the classroom:

- This website is an excellent tool to have and use in the classroom as a

resource for students to understand how to approach word problems in a
step-by-step fashion. While playing this game students get instruction from
a math tutor in the top right corner. This allows students to see what they
are doing incorrectly, what they are doing well, and what they need to do
next. Furthermore students are taken through each problem step by step.
When one step is completed the next step appears.
- This is a great website for students to use in the classroom or at a math
activity center (if a tablet is available). As a teacher I would use this
website to compliment students learning about how to use operations in
real contexts as well as helping students to gain operation sense.

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Website name and URL:

Mega Penny Project

http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/

Suitable age range: Who will use in the classroom:

K-High School Student Resource

Connection to mathematics:

This website is all about helping students be able to get a sense of what some
large numbers would look like in real life through the use of stacks of pennies.
Great for large-number concepts!
Description:

This is a great tool to help students be able to visualize large numbers. In order
to do this students can work their way through the Penny Project, by looking at
one penny and then all the way up to seeing what one quintillion pennies looks
like. All of the stacks of pennies are shown with visual references, value, weight,
height if stacked, and more.

Examples of how you would use it in the classroom:

- Students could use this website in class at a computer station to get an

understanding of the value of very large numbers. This website would be
particularly useful to developing whole-number place-value concepts as
well as getting a real life picture of what one trillion of something might
look like or be compared too.
- This website I think would be great to pair with the reading of How much
is a million by Steven Kellogg, so that students can see and visualize
numbers that go beyond a million.
- Students could also use this website at home with their parents. It would
be neat to also see if there are websites that use other objects than
pennies to visualize large numbers. This website is very interactive and
provides many neat facts, I found myself eager to click from value to value
because I was so curious to see what a trillion or one Quintillion looks like!

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Website name and URL:

Number Line Boxes, Number Line Jump Maker, and Number Line

www.ictgames.com/addition.htm

Suitable age range: Who will use in the classroom:

Kindergarten to 2nd grade Student Resource

Connection to mathematics:

The three games that I have picked out help students to get a firm grasp on how
to use a number line and visualize adding or subtracting number through using
the jump strategy. This will bolster students ability to add and subtract efficiently
and accurately.

Description:

This website provides a number of fun games for students to play. The three
games that I have chosen above, Number Line Boxes, Number Line Jump Maker,
and Number line all have to do with practicing the jump strategy for young
students, rounding, and estimating. All of the games help students to develop
strategies for addition and subtraction computation. There are many other
wonderful games that can be found on the website such as adding 9 fairy, save
the whale, and adding 10 depth charger. Kids will love these games!

Examples of how you would use it in the classroom:

- I would use Number Line Boxes, Number Line Jump Maker, and Number
Line in at the class computer center for students so that they can have
more interactive practice with how to add and subtract one and two-digit
numbers. This skill is crucial since students will need to be able to do more
than that. This provides students with the ability to practice informal
methods of adding and subtraction to develop more strategies to be able to
approach the questions that are asked on them.
- This website offers many more interactive and captivating games that
students might want to also play. Many of these sites could be used at
home or school to provide extra practice in the areas of number facts,
money, addition, counting, subtraction, time, odd and even, place value,
shape and measurement, and more/less. I would definitely use this website
throughout many units and this website could also be used by children
when they are done and assignment and need something else to do

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Website name and URL:

Fractions (And Much, Much, More)

http://mathplayground.com/Fraction_bars.html

Suitable age range: Who will use in the classroom:

2nd to 5th grade Student Resource

Connection to mathematics:

Fractions. This concept is one that many students often struggle with, so having
the ability to visualize concepts that involve fractions is always helpful for
students. This website is excellent for helping students develop fraction concepts.
Description:

This website is filled with games that students can play to help them with many
math topic areas. I particularly like the fraction games that are available for
students. Some games go into more depth and some simply help students to be
able to visualize certain fractions (Fraction Bars). All of these games are
challenging in some way, but are also fun for kids. I know when I was playing the
game, equivalent fractions I was so into the sounds and the object of the game
that it made finding fraction equivalencies more fun.

Examples of how you would use it in the classroom:

- This website offers so many different games on a variety of topics that this
site could be used as a go to place for children when they have free time.
Students can easily be given parameters on what they can and cant play,
depending on what has been covered and what is being covered now.
- This website is a great tool for students who are in particular struggling
with understanding how to add fractions, order fractions, group like
fractions, comparing fractions, and finding equivalent fractions. Thus, this
is a great tool for these students and gives them extra practice where
needed.

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Website name and URL:

Dynamic Paper

http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=205

Suitable age range: Who will use in the classroom:

Kindergarten-High School Teacher Resource

Connection to mathematics:

This website is an excellent tool for any teacher and is great to use for many
math topics and allows a teacher to make a specific shape or number line for a
particular lesson or problem that the class is working on quick and easily. The
applet allows you to create nets (two dimensional outlines of three-dimensional
shapes) graph paper (coordinates, polar coordinates, logarithmic graph paper),
number lines (including positive and negative coordinates), number grids
(hundreds boards), tessellations (tiling patterns involving triangles,
quadrilaterals), shapes (pattern blocks and color tiles), and spinners (up to 16
sectors with adjustable sizes). There are so many things that can be created with
this applet, that it is a must have resource for any teacher.

Description:

This is a great tool and a resource that is provided through NCTM, Illuminations
is a great tool for any teacher of mathematics. Dynamic Paper is a multipurpose
tool that creates custom graph paper, number grids, nets, number lines, shapes,
spinners, and tessellations that can be exported in .jpeg and .pdf formats. This is
an excellent website for teachers to use who are looking to make worksheets for
a particular math lesson or for projecting in the front of the class during a lesson.

Examples of how you would use it in the classroom:

- This website would be great for making worksheets for students when you
need a particular shape or a number line that is a specific length, or even
pattern blocks that have one-inch sides.
- This applet would be great to use on a projector screen in front of the class
and work through different problems that could be supported by the applet.

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Website name and URL:

Inside Mathematics

http://insidemathematics.org

Suitable age range: Who will use in the classroom:

Kindergarten- High School Teacher Resource

Connection to mathematics:

This website offers many resources for educators. In particular the site provides
multiple ways for educators to transform their teaching practices. Furthermore
teachers have access to many problems of the month that help to promote
problem solving. Each problem of the day is broken up into levels of difficulty
from Level A (primary) to Level E (High School). The website also offers
performance assessment tasks, formative re-engaging lessons, and classroom
videos to allow teachers to learn from other teachers, as well as videos and tasks
supporting the Common Core standards for mathematical practice and
mathematical content.

Description:
This site can be used in a variety of ways. This site contains sample lessons,
formative assessment items, rubrics, student work samples, and professional
development resources that support various levels of topics such as patterns,
fractions, and algebraic properties and relationships. I particularly found this site
to be helpful for the problem of the month section. The problems of the months
are all aligned with the math common core standards as well as the standards of
hematical practice.

Examples of how you would use it in the classroom:

- This is a great professional resource for any teacher and can be used to
stay current on math topics as well as get ideas from other math
educators. Inside of mathematics opens up the door and serves as a great
platform for educators to share what they know.
- I found many of the lessons to be useful and easily convertible to
classroom use. I could see myself using some of them!
- The guided tours of reflective mathematics practice, identifying what
makes teaching, learning, and improving instruction is extremely useful in
helping to make sure that as an educator my instruction is on point or if
there are areas I could improve on.
- This is a great tool for continued math education and to stay current and to
see what other educators are doing and what I can bring to my own
classroom.

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