September 25, 2007

Pedagogy & Fun Stuff

  1. The Regents Prep site (http://regentsprep.org) has now been updated from Math A and Math B to the three new SED courses.
  2. MathBits.com (http://mathbits.com) This site is devoted to offering free lessons and activities for students and teachers with an emphasis on NYS.
  3. The Jefferson Math Project (JMAP) is a nonprofit initiative offering New York math teachers resources that simplify the integration of Math A and Math B Regents exam questions into their curriculum.
  4. Rebecca Newburn, Visionary Math Educator: www.rebeccanewburn.com and www.information-age-education.com
  5. The Access Center (http://www.k8accesscenter.org/index.php/category/math/) provides technical assistance that strengthens State and local capacity to help students with disabilities effectively learn in the general education curriculum.
  6. Math-and-Reading-Help-for-Kids.org (http://math-and-reading-help-for-kids.org/pages/about_us.html) is created by a cooperative of concerned individuals dedicated to helping children, parents and teachers find appropriate educational information on the World Wide Web.
  7. Education Atlas®: Online Degree, K12 and Educator Guide - offering a comprehensive directory of Child Education, K-12, Higher Education, Special Education, and Adult Education resources.
  8. www.visualmathlearning.com. This site features a free online interactive tutorial for pre-algebra students that is rich in games, puzzles, and animated manipulatives that emphasize learning concepts by visualization. It is an excellent resource for parents and educators of students at the elementary and middle-school level. Access to the tutorial requires no fee or registration.
  9. National Library of Virtual Manipluatives for Interactive Mathematics
  10. Interactive Mathematics - http://www.intmath.com/
  11. Math and Science Summer Programs at Colleges in New York State for Kids 8-18 Math and Science Summer Programs for Kids 8-18 held on New York State college campuses- includes,description, contact information and active email & web site links. Search by activity, college, or location. at for math summer programs for kids held on New York State college campuses. Search by activity, college, or location.
  12. Quiz Hub (http://quizhub.com/quiz/quizhub.cfm) is an online interactive learning center that features educational games, puzzles, quizzes, and spelling activities. It also includes subject guides for language arts, math, science, and social studies.
  13. Art of Problem Solving - brings together motivated students, instructors, peers, and friends for discussions of problem solving methods, instructional materials, and other common interests.
  14. Thinkfinity (formerly Marco Polo) - Internet Content for the Classroom; a consortium of premier national education organizations, state education agencies and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation dedicated to providing the highest quality Internet content and professional development to teachers and students throughout the United States.
  15. Center for Science and Math Teaching
  16. Canadian Mathematical Society
  17. The Gateway to Educational Materials - US Dept..of Education
  18. Mrs. Glosser's Math Goodies (a free educational resource that features interactive math lessons.)
  19. Hands-on Activities The National Engineers Week Committee provides engineers, teachers, parents and children with fun engineering-related hands-on activities.
  20. K-12 Math Curriculum Center
  21. NUMBER PATTERNS FUN WITH CURVES & TOPOLOGY - Jill Britton
  22. Mathematics Archives WWW Server
  23. MegaMath The MegaMath project is intended to bring unusual and important mathematical ideas to elementary school classrooms so that young people and their teachers can think about them together.
  24. NASA home page Out of this world mathematics explorations
  25. OSU Math Ed Center
  26. PBS Teacher Source (includes MathLine)
  27. Discovery School's Puzzle Maker
  28. Science for Young Students
  29. Unit Converter One of the best unit converters on the net
  30. The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Mathematics
  31. Yahoo - Math Education

Ideas for calculators with visually impaired students.

Of course, none of these may be helpful for Braille students, but are useful for visually impaired students. The first, found below, is something "from a teacher" that had distributed to T3 instructors. It involves using the TI Presenter with a small TV or computer monitor.

Also, I have heard of success with someone just using the view screen panel. A special white board had been constructed by the industrial technology department to hold the view screen on the student's desk. The student just looked at the output directly on the view screen, not its projection on the wall.

Also, I have heard success with using a graphing calculator emulator on a computer because it can be enlarged enough so that those with poor vision can see both the keys and the screen output.

Finally, is a talking calculator - not a graphing calculator, however. This talking calculator talks and echoes the number when it is being pressed. When I went to the web site I did not expect much when I saw that it was free. Well, I have been told that it is really helpful and incredibly easy to use. You can find it at www.readingmadeeasy.com .

The following websites offer a variety of tools designed for the blind or visually impaired regarding mathematics and in particular graphing. As I have gotten a number of requests for graphing calculators for the blind, I thought you all might want these web addresses as well.

-Thanks go to Melody DeRosa for this information
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