Mth+421

Hi Everyone,

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Jean

Good morning!

Please type your name followed by your space name. Thanks!

Kelly Palma kpalma

Jennifer Kakaley jennifer9102

Danielle Kempisty teacher4life

Daleela K. Johnson coreteacher

Melissa Cooke School-Rules

Karen Wisnewski Kwisnews

Lisa Wink lwink

Hi Everyone!

Please find a website in Chapter 3 that looks interesting to you. One that you were unable to explore and provide the topic, grade level, and whether you liked it or not. Provide a few sentences either way. We will share how this went next Saturday.

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Thanks, Jean

Danielle, I'm sure someone will have a suggestion. Thanks for the comments.

Jean

Hopefully, everyone one had a great weekend! While going through Chapter 3 I ran into some of the website links not working. I am also having a very difficult time finding a website that I love! One of the website that I tried was titled Math Games. The grade level was 1st - 6th and the curricular fit was counting and arithmetic. The interactive activity included entering answers, receiving feedback, and observing results. I did not like this website at all. When I first entered the site, I thought to myself finally maybe I found a page that I could actually enjoy, but no I was wrong! The game selection was horrible and very repetitive! If you got a question wrong for example on the Space Shuttle Launch you would keep failing until you got it right. Whenever you got the problems right it always did the same thing. So after a while I was just more annoyed than anything. HELP, someone please give me a link to an awesome website. I am looking for a great website with amazing graphics and lots of variety, ideally for the middle school level.  Danielle Kempisty 

Hi Everyone!

Our guest speaker will be here this Saturday, April 26. She will also bring an Elmo.

Jean

Danielle, give this site a try I found this oin week2 of our class very interactive lots of games, very bright. www.bbc.co.uk/schools/numbertime

Hope this helps. Karen

HI, I found www.visualfractions.com can be a challenging website if you crank up the level of difficulty. this site is just as it says-VERY VISUAL. You have the option of using circles squares or other forms to visually see your fractions. You can also set the difficulty, and specific operations you would like to do. It's definitely and upper el. and middle school possibly even lower level high school math site. this could also be a great assessment site for a student you are trying to place or a great way to generate practice problems. Karen

Thanks for the websites. I tried the visual fractions website but I am having a problem with the website but I am looking forward to seeing it actually work. It is always great to have an interactive website for the students in middle school. The bbc website is really cute, but I was hoping for a little more. My question is: Do all of the games you come across have the same reaction and response for the right and wrong answers?? Maybe my expectations for internet interactive games are too high?? Thanks for the information I could use the bbc website for other subjects as well!! Thank you, Danielle K

Danielle - I found this website when we had to find 3 websites: [|www.geom.umn.edu/~dwiggins/mainpage.html] . It's a good site for geometry for high school students. ~ Jennifer ~

I found this site from the book: [|http://www.sakharov.net/puzzle/ . I went through and read them and went to the ones I found most interesting. A lot of them didn't work, but this one is a good one. It has different puzzles you can do, like removing 8 sticks to make 2 squares without touching. It's very interactive, and good, and it doesn't seem like you are doing math when you do it. ~ Jennifer ~

My favorite site so far, out of all the sites I have viewed is [|http://www.playkidsgames.com.] I like all the games and could easily lose track of time playing them. The best thing about the site is that it has more than just math games. There are vocabulary games, memory games, and even geography games, as well as math games. I had alot of fun on this site.

Melissa

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Sorry about being late with this posting - was out of town last week. I'm looking at the websites again, and I think my favorite so far is http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/careers/aa/lessons/math.htm. It has a list of careers that use math. Click on a career, and it provides an explanation of what types of math problems a person in that career might face. Then it gives a sample problem for the student to work out, followed by an explanation of how to work the sample. This is perfect for upper elementary and middle school students who wonder "Why do I need to know this stuff??" It's easier to learn something when you know there is a valuable application for it! Lisa

<span style="COLOR: #5c138b; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">I, as well, have to apologize for the late posting. the website I looked at was from the book. the address is <span style="COLOR: #5c138b; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">[|www.lessonplanspage.com] <span style="COLOR: #5c138b; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif">. It was great. Very clear, concise, and user friendly. Any teacher could benefit easily and quickly. It's very well organized, too; easy to navigate.

Daleela

<span style="COLOR: rgb(40,118,45)"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: rgb(0,28,255); FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; COLOR: rgb(0,4,255); FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="COLOR: rgb(235,36,36)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(229,56,131)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,157,255)">      <span style="COLOR: rgb(40,118,45)"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: rgb(0,28,255); FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; COLOR: rgb(0,4,255); FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="COLOR: rgb(235,36,36)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(229,56,131)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,157,255)"> <span style="COLOR: rgb(40,118,45)"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: rgb(0,28,255); FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; COLOR: rgb(0,4,255); FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="COLOR: rgb(235,36,36)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(229,56,131)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,157,255)">Unlike yourself, I found this website to be amazing:      <span style="COLOR: rgb(40,118,45)"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: rgb(0,28,255); FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; COLOR: rgb(0,4,255); FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="COLOR: rgb(235,36,36)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(229,56,131)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,157,255)">[|http://www.playkidsgames.com/mathGames.htm]<span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: rgb(0,28,255); FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; COLOR: rgb(0,4,255); FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="COLOR: rgb(235,36,36)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(229,56,131)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,157,255)">I'm addicted to this website because of all the games that are listed. I found them to be fun and something to do for younger kids. The grade levels are first through sixth and they all seemed to be fairly easy to play so I think every level can play. Most of the games have an option of easy, medium, and hard. The game called the Robot Calculator was my favorite game because this involves a lot of mental math. Mental mathematics is one of my many focuses when teaching math because I think it's a weak point among students today. Again, the student chooses addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, or random to play, then they choose their difficulty level. We are all going to have differing views on websites, but this one is my favorite so far. <span style="COLOR: rgb(40,118,45)"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: rgb(0,28,255); FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; COLOR: rgb(0,4,255); FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="COLOR: rgb(235,36,36)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(229,56,131)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,157,255)"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: rgb(0,28,255); FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; COLOR: rgb(0,4,255); FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="COLOR: rgb(235,36,36)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(229,56,131)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,157,255)">Kelly Palma

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Thank you everyone for all of your input!! <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">Danielle K.

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<span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,158)">If all of you go to my wikispace and look under MTH 421, you will see a link that shows youtube videos of everywhere the Smart board has been used. It's quite interesting to see that kindergarten students are using the Smart board very well. Enjoy! Kelly Palma ===<span style="COLOR: rgb(40,118,45)"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: rgb(0,28,255); FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; COLOR: rgb(0,4,255); FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="COLOR: rgb(235,36,36)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(229,56,131)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,157,255)"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: rgb(0,28,255); FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; COLOR: rgb(0,4,255); FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="COLOR: rgb(235,36,36)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(229,56,131)">           === Hi Everyone! I hope you enjoyed our guest speaker, Nickeyta. I am changing the assignment and giving you a choice this week. You can still research and write a one-page lesson plan that is based on an interactive site. If you adjust the original to suit a different grade level, please print out the original. You may want to review several of the lessons that were given on the MACUL site and find a guest speaker(s) that you found interesting. Please keep your review to one page. Lastly, Nickeyta provided their site at www.smarttech.com, and suggested that we take a look at the "Education" tab. Feel free to review and write on any of those three. If you have any questions, please write.

See you next Saturday, Jean

Hi everyone, This is non MTH 421 related but for anyone who is in my pre-calc class. what did we cover last week? could I get a copy of the notes? Thanks, Karen