Additional resources for mathematics
education majors: content and useful tools for
teachers
Content:
- Illuminations: NCTM lessons
and activities for any grade level and any math topic
- YouTube for
teachers
- Curriki
(a curriculum + wiki); users upload curriculum in all subjects and
grade levels
- Gapminder:
Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world
view
- Math train,
math lessons taught by kids
- Great
websites for teachers, website with links to many other sites,
including lesson plans, puzzles, and games
- Calculation
Nation, highly popular NCTM-developed math games
- Greening
schools (math), a project by Illinois WPA and WMRC, includes
lessons, projects, and resources for doing environmental math
Tools:
-
Dynamic paper on Illuminations, creates not only grids of any
size, but also shapes and solids with any specifications
- Poll everywhere, instant
polling in a classroom, using only cell phones and a computer
- Prezi, a toll for creating
non-linear presentations
- The hat, creates
random ordering of names -- replaces pulling them out of a hat
- Cool
timer, times in-class activities