Making Math Contextual, Visual, and Interconnected with Technology
University of Windsor – Faculty of Education
Friday January 22nd, 2016
Slide Deck
Download the slide deck from today’s workshop. Note that I load the deck with many options and often times, I don’t get to it all. Feel free to contact me if you have questions about any of the slides we do not get to.
Math Tasks Explored:
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The Stacking Paper Tasks are also available on iOS as a multi-touch book for iBooks:
Learn more about what’s inside the multi-touch book here.
Or, consider accessing these tasks in an interactive way via Google Sites.
Cool Desmos Activities to Check Out:
Marbleslides: Lines
Access Marbleslides: Lines Activity (Code: 46px)
Use this activity with your own class by clicking here.
Access Marbleslides: Parabolas Activity (Code: sw3d)
Use this activity with your own class by clicking here.
Note that they have other Marbleslides versions including:
Exponentials
Periodics
Rationals
Will It Hit The Hoop? – Dan Meyer 3 Act Math Task
Access our Desmos Activity (Code: nax6)
Use this activity with your own class by clicking here.
Some other cool activities to explore:
Parallel and Perpendicular Lines
The Detention Buy-Out: Solving Systems of Equations
3 Act Math Tasks: Curious Math iTunes U Course
Access over 30 tasks with all resources downloaded directly to your iOS Device to avoid streaming media in your classroom through the Curious Math iTunes U Course:
Other Useful Courses to Check Out:
Learn Pythagorean Theorem Through Exploration – Kyle Pearce
Stacking Paper Tasks – Kyle Pearce
Beautiful Functions – Jon Orr
OR, you don’t want to download Jon’s Beautiful Functions book? Check out all of the links here on his blog.
Related Posts:
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3 Act Math Tasks Sorted By Common Core State Standards
Access a huge bank of real world math problems by Dan Meyer and a group of other great mathematics innovators. Best of all – it’s all sorted by the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the Ontario Provincial Curriculum. Click your grade, course or overall expectation!
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