Angry Birds in the Classroom

Great idea to engage kids in math, make it relevant, and fun!
Playing with Proportions

Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers

Even though the video has been out for 2 years, I think now with the change in our curriculum to the Common Core this will be completely relevant in the classrooms.



I don't know when the last time was that I sat down with a math book to solve a problem, but I do know how and when I used math last. For example, how many miles to the gallon my car gets, what time I need to leave my house to be somewhere that is 45 minutes away, figuring out how many copies to make, budgeting and bills, how much paint to buy, and the list goes on and on. Hopefully we'll begin to tie in practical applications to classroom math in order to help our students grow!

Create, embed and share your charts, plots, diagrams and maps online.

I played around a bit with this site and it was pretty interesting. Because of the relative complexity, I would recommend it for middle school students and up. 

Create, embed and share your charts, plots, diagrams and maps online.

Thinking Blocks-Model and Solve Math Word Problems

The first sentence on the website says it all, "Thinking Blocks is a suite of learning tools designed to help students solve math word problems accurately and efficiently." It has addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, ratio and a modeling tool for the teacher.  

Mind blowing! Scale of the Universe

This was shared with the tech contacts for our county, and it is a really neat tool/learning object. It is awesome for math and science! Make sure to use the scroll bar to zoom in and out!

Scale of the Universe