Technology Tools in the Math Classroom

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• Technology Tools in the Math Classroom
• Your Internet Concierge Helen Teague
• http//4oops.com

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ISTEs Benefits for Students

• Helps students improve their technology and
  information processing skills, preparing students
  for higher education and jobs in the
  technology-driven global economy
• Provides crucial support for constructivist
  instructional practices and motivates students to
  become self-directed learners
• Helps students stay organized and on track with
  their schoolwork

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ISTEs Benefits for Teachers

• Helps teachers become more adept and confident in
  using education technology for planning,
  teaching, and communication
• Provides teachers with ready access to a whole
  world of curricular resources that encourage and
  support the development of richer lessons
• Helps teachers communicate more frequently and
  effectively with students, parents, and colleagues

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Teacher Observations Advantages

1. Online research available at your fingertips
2. Electronic submissions of student work
3. Secure student folders
4. Incorporation of interactive websites into
   instruction
5. Enabling student creativity
6. Writing process time is cut in half as students
   save drafts, and correct as they go!!
7. Communication capabilities with both students and
   parents via e-mail and teachers web pages

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ASCD Poll
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Resources!
The OOPS Math Page Teacher-Created Hotlists
Links Across the Curriculum Trackstar
I Know That! Online Flashcards
Ideas for MS Office PBS Teacher Source
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The OOPS Lesson Cycle

• WarmUp?
• New Content?
• Application?
• More Content or Synthesis?
• Closure?

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Tech Lesson Cycle WarmUps

• EJournal Prompts

Bumper Stickers
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WarmUp Idea Use Tribonds

• one
• Uno
• Ein

Algebra Search Engine Query George

• Tribond Lesson

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Example
WP Math Journal
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Chalk Talk
Activities

• Write a Main Idea relating to the lesson on a
  SmartBoard, Whiteboard, Computer connected to
  projector.
• Grades 3-12 silently approaches the board and
  adds details of what they already know about this
  topic. Grades K-1 draw pictures.

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Now It's Your Turn!

• Lesson
• WarmUp?

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The OOPS Lesson Cycle

• WarmUp?
• New Content?
• Application?
• More Content or Synthesis?
• Closure?

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Highlighted Using WP Math
WP
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Hypertext Dictionary
WP

• Tessellation
• A tessellation is created when a shape is
  repeated over and over again covering a plane
  without any gaps or overlaps.
• Another word for a tessellation is a Tiling.

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Application Strategy
... MAD
Show info to Students. Invite them to analyze
this info and create their own file with
something Missing Added Deleted
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Application Fling the Teacher
http//www.activehistory.co.uk/fling/quizzes/other
_maths_basic/quiz.htm http//www.oops.bizland.co
m/PDF.swf
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Now It's Your Turn!

• Lesson
• Application?

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The OOPS Lesson Cycle

• WarmUp?
• New Content?
• Application?
• More Content or Synthesis?
• Closure?

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Inquiry Learning With BLOOMs Taxonomy

• Evaluation

Appraise Structure

• Synthesis

Redesign Structure

• Analysis

Explain Structure
If we teach today's students as we taught
yesterdays, we rob them of tomorrow. John Dewey
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Cone of Learning (Edgar Dale)
After 2 WeeksWe Tend to Remember . . .
Nature of Involvement
Reading
10 of what we Read
Hearing Words
20 of what we Hear
Passive
Looking at Pictures
30 of what we See
Watching a Movie
Looking at an Exhibit
50 of what We Hear and See
Watching a Demonstration
Seeing it done on Location
70 of what we Explain
Participating in a Discussion
Giving a Talk
Active
Doing a Dramatic Presentation
Simulating the Real Experience
Products
90 of what we Say and Do
Doing the Real Thing
Edgar Dale, Audio-Visual Methods in Teaching (3rd
Edition). Holt, Rinehard, and Winston (1969).
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PPT
Title
CLIP ART
PICTURE GOES HERE
Summary information here
E- Trading Cards
Your name here Place and date
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Excel
Data Collection
Link Source for Data http//www.refdesk.com
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Hypertext Writing
WP

• Hypertext Vocabulary
• Geometry Mathematics of shapes, points, lines,
  angles, curves, surfaces, and solids
• Hypertext Biolog Ada Byron Lovelace
• Ada Byron Lovelace was a mathematician in
  England. She is often considered the first
  computer programmer because she and Charles
  Babbage created a computer language called ADA to
  beat the odds at horse races.Her father was the
  Romantic poet, Lord Byron.

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Real Data for Real Problems
Access

• Find the Following Information about your
  favorite fast food Calories, Grams of fat, Grams
  of protein, Grams of carbohydrates, Milligrams of
  sodium
• Using a Search Engine or the following sites
• Food Finder http//www.fatcalories.com/
• Fast Food Quest http//www.ajc.com/health/content
  /shared/health/tools/fastfood.html

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Now It's Your Turn!

• Lesson
• More Content or Synthesis?

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Advanced Search for Resources
The OOPS Invisible Web Page
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Approaches
Layered Curriculum
A Critical Thinking
Let Kids Choose
Knowledge Progression Samples http
//www.help4teachers.com/
C Basic Facts
B Application
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Best Practices Use Existing Software

• 100 Days of Technology
• Internet Intervals
• Using MS Office in the Classroom
• Integrated Products
• LISD Lesson Plans

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Math Projects
Graphic Organizers
Scavenger Hunts
WebQuests
Multimedia Squidoo!
Simulations
WebQuest Example
TrackStar
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Let's Sum It Up!!

• Lesson Averages
• WarmUp? What is the average height of our class?
  Are we shrinking or growing taller than previous
  classes?
• New Content? Define height/average
• Apply? Online Form
• More Content or Synthesis? What factors
  contributes to health? Internet research
• Closure? Discuss class comparisons

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Now It's Your Turn!

• Lesson
• WarmUp?
• New Content?
• Apply?
• More Content or Synthesis?
• Closure?

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It Does Make A Difference!

• Technology turns California school around,
  officials saySacramento-area school officials
  say 400 wireless laptops -- worth about 1
  million -- have reduced suspension rates by 50
  and brought about a sea change in the scores and
  behavior of its students, many who are poor and
  80 who do not have access to computers at home.
  "I see enthusiasm for learning and wanting to be
  in school, and that's powerful," said Rita
  Phillips, elementary schools coordinator with
  Sacramento City Unified School District. The
  Sacramento Bee (Calif.)

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The Key Tech Word

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