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Dec 032012
Want to do more with your iPad to engage your students? Have them create animated story problems for the math concepts you are covering. Using the Explain Everything and SMART Notebook apps for the iPad, I’ll show you the steps you or your students can take to create a fun and interactive story problem in minutes. Can’t see the video below because YouTube is blocked? View it on SchoolTube.
Apr 102012
via geogebra.org
Are you a Math teacher? Want to have some visualization software but can’t afford Geometers SketchPad? Give GeoGebra a try (and then let me know if you like it!). This was recommended to me by the math teachers that I work with in Delta, Utah. Thanks Russ!
Mar 162012
View In iTunes
- Category: Education
- Released: Aug 02, 2011
- Version: 1.0.0
- Size: 2.9 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: KCP Technologies, Inc.
- ?? 2011 KCP Technologies, Inc.
Requirements: Compatible with iPad.Requires iOS 3.2 or later
via itunes.apple.com
Geometers Sketchpad is an amazing desktop application for Math teachers to help visualize math and make it tangible for their students.
Now, it looks like they have an iPad version with included activities and workbooks for elementary math, early algebra and geometry – and it’s free!
Aug 102011
HTML Codes for Mathematics
HTML codes to put mathematics characters on your Web page
The following list includes the HTML codes for mathematics characters not in the standard character set. Not all browsers support all the codes, so be sure to test your HTML codes before you use them.
Some Mathematics characters are part of the Unicode character set, so you need to declare that in the head of your documents:
<meta http-equiv=”content-type” content=”text/html;charset=utf-8″ />
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Display Friendly Code Numerical Code Hex Code Description ??? − − Minus Sign + + + + Plus Sign ?? ± ± ± Plus or Minus Sign ?? × × × Multiplication Sign ?? ÷ ÷ ÷ Division Sign % % % % Percent Sign ??? ‰ ‰ Per Million Sign = = = = Equal Sign ??? ≠ ≠ Not Equal To Sign ??? ≈ ≈ Approximately Equal Sign ??? ≡ ≡ Identical To Sign < < < < Less Than Sign > > > > Greater Than Sign ??? ≤ ≤ Less Than or Equal To Sign ??? ≥ ≥ Greater Than or Equal To Sign ??? ∞ ∞ Infinity Sign ??? ⅛ ⅛ One Eighth Fraction ?? ¼ ¼ ¼ One Quarter Fraction ??? ⅜ ⅜ Three Eighths Fraction ?? ½ ½ ½ One Half Fraction ??? ⅝ ⅝ Five Eighths Fraction ?? ¾ ¾ ¾ Three Quarters Fraction ??? ⅞ ⅞ Seven Eighths Fraction ??? ∫ ∫ Integral Sign ??? ∂ ∂ Partial Differential Sign ??? ∆ ∆ Increment Sign ??? ∏ ∏ N-ary Product Sign ??? ∑ ∑ N-ary Sum Sign ??? √ √ Square Root Sign ??? ∟ ∟ Right Angle Sign ??? ∩ ∩ Intersection Sign ??? ∙ ∙ Bullet Operator ?? ƒ ƒ Function Sign ??? ⁄ ⁄ Fraction Slash
This page is for all of the Math Geeks (an affectionate term) out there who try to add equations and math problems on their teacher web pages. Without an online equation editor like this one, it can be a challenge to write equations in HTML.
Jul 152011
See the ever-growing list of the State Trainers favorite apps here, or at http://bit.ly/hnZ07Y
Science
Math
and powerful graphic capibilites of the iPad. Free
Science 360
Leaf Snap
Xperica
Everyday Mathmatics from McGraw Hill
Our World – Al Gore app
CK-12 Text Books
From Guy Durrant
Math
- Math Ref Free (free) +
- Colossal Calculator (free) (iPod)
- Graph (free) +
- Wolfram Algebra Course Assistant ($1.99) +
- i41CX+ (24.99) + (I paid much less)
- PI83 ($0.99) iPod
- Equation Genius (free) +
- PocketCAS (graphing/plotting) free or $19.99 for pro
- Intellective Calculus (free)
Science
- Biology
- Cell Imaging HD (slow load, beautiful images, large database)
- LeafSnap electronic fieldguide. Free, but limited iPod and iPad
- 3D Cell Simulation and Stain Tool (beautiful images, slow to download) Rotate and zoom. Free (iPad)
- Dichot key (for use within the BYU Monte Bean museum) free
- Phyx
- Intellective Physics (Free)
- Video Science (large collection of science demo videos) Free
- Astronomy there are bucketloads of astronomy apps
- GoSkyWatch (free or $3.99 for +
- SkyOrb 3D Free +
- StarWalk (2.99 iPod, 4.99 iPad)
- Planets (free) +
- Exoplanet (free) db of all extrasolar planets
- pUniverse ($2.99+, 3.99 iPad), pU Express is free
- Geology
- Seismic (iPod) (.99) not pretty, but fast and effective
- QuakeWatch + (.99)
- USGSSeismic (free) RSS feed from USGS (iPod)
Mar 012011
Today, we’ll take a look at the benchmark exams available in UTIPS for the math teachers in Iron county. We’ll show you an alternate way to access these tests – other than copying the tests to a teachers UTIPS account – which has some vast benefits.
Access the Iron Math Benchmark Exams here: http://ironmath.utips.sedck12.org – this is the same address that your students will use to access the tests.
Taking a test this way requires that teachers have their students set up in their own UTIPS account ahead of the time that the benchmark exams are taken. The instructions on how to do this are included in this post as the Managing Students.doc – view and download below.
Here’s how your teachers and students should be accessing these exams:
Accessing the tests this way not only gives the teacher identified with the detailed login a copy of the test results, but the Iron Math master account gets a copy of the results as well for every student that access the test DISTRICT WIDE. This will allow for more broad data analysis – more data = good!
Hopefully you can see the advantage of students taking these exams. They can provide valuable data and insight as to how students are doing and progressing in their learning. We hope that you will urge your teachers to use these tests and have their students take them, and then using the results to their best advantage.
Feel free to share this article, the handouts and video with your teachers so that they can get the ball rolling on these benchmark exams. As always, PLEASE let me know how I can help with this process, UTIPS, or any other technology and data in your schools.
Feb 162011
Today we’ll have a UTIPS Refresher training, with some special attention paid to Math teachers who at times need to use custom equations in their questions that, unfortunately, can’t be built within UTIPS anymore.
Let’s first start off here at my UTIPS Student Page: http://clint.utips.sedck12.org – head there and quickly take the short math quiz that I’ve prepared for you called Iron Math Test. We’ll use the data generated from your results to start our training with a review of the Reports area of your UTIPS accounts.
After the review of the basics (see attached document), we’ll show these teachers a few HTML formatting tips & tricks (see attached PDF document), how to use an Online Equation Editor/Generator, and how to use Wolfram Alpha to generate images of equation plots to use in their questions.
Nov 222010
Here’s the notes from the Common Core Presentation at the UCTM Conference by David Smith, USOE Elementary Math Specialist, and Diana Suddreth, USOE Secondary Math Specialist. I’ve also included the audio recording of the presentation which matches up with the included time stamps. My apologies for the poor recording – it was the best my iPad microphone could do.