Summer thoughts

Looking for math resources online
Need to check out
http://www.agrademath.com/

Fun with folding Mr. Honner

edublog 21 free web tools

Keep coming back to Simple K12. com really good info... http://simplek12.com/tlc/

Need to check this out... BEFORE July 15th
http://education.apple.com/summer/

Folder Boy... interesting http://www.folderboy.com/welcome.htm

what about ten marks?? during the school year?? http://www.tenmarks.com/tmother/teacher-index
or free math help? at http://www.freemathhelp.com/

Cool game... math graph wars.. http://www.graphwar.com/tutorial2.html

https://teachwithyouripad.wikispaces.com/Blooms+Taxonomy+with+Apps

Algebra (Period 1)

Khan Academy has some excellent You Tube videos to help you review basic Algebra I concepts. I suggest you watch at least some of these: :
How to :
Solve Equations using the Quadratic Equations Part 1

Solving Equations Using the Quadratic Equation Part 2

Solve Quadratic Equations by Completing the Square

Fun facts

French street names after mathematicians

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Societies/ParisNames.html

Pi Day

Things to remember...


PI Day is here...
while we don't have time to truly celebrate... check out these interesting websites:
History of pi
Find your birthday in pi
The first ten thousand digits of pi


http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=L575

https://mail.google.com/mail/#mbox/12e9b7aff3448836
http://www.teachpi.org/index.htm
http://goanimate.com/studioFullscreen/theme/custom#

Math Tricks

I am always in need of good math tricks...

Making Math fun
Algebra math tricks-- good
Puns 1-- might be a good beginning of the year...

Math Fun Facts

Denmark & Elephant Algebra trick-- with exactly what to say!!

Scientific Notation

Always searching for those great sites to help students practice scientific notation--

Astronomy Workshop

Purple Math

Power of Ten clip

Math & Science Activity Center:
Math & Science Activity Center
Multiplying with Scientific Notation
Division with Scientific Notation
More Difficulty Problems

Teaching Resources

How does one keep all the 'good' or 'great' resources close at hand... and find them....

good question...

Some I have rediscovered and want to remember to use next year...
Ventura SELPA

for math notations on emails...
http://karlscalculus.org/email.html#sqrt

back up plans

writing at the college level-- but I could definitely use some of the strategies