"Good Stuff" -
Math Games, Materials, & Other Stuff



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LISTS OF RESOURCE MATERIALS

These are links I use every day in teaching regular math classes supported by this internet site.

  • MATH SPOKEN HERE! 460+ arithmetic, algebra, and precalc dictionary
    [MSH! Home] -- Home Page
    [Words] - All Words
    Classes - Lessons, Tutorials -- Signed Numbers, Trig, etc.
    [MSH! Grouped Words] - Words Grouped by Topic
    [Dictionary Table of Contents] - Table of Contents
    [Dictionary Essays] - Essays
     
  • - Algebra Notes & Lessons
     
  • - Term Tiles & Tokens, manipulatives for algebra
     
  • -- The Hundreds Board Book - The Most Valuable Manipulative in Elementary School
  • WWW School Home Page & Index -- Create & Edit Web pages for personal, professional, student use
    [www home]
  • MathTokens.Com, digital manipulative spreadsheets on all sorts of math stuff
    spread sheet notes
  • Computer's Spreadsheet Notes & Index for completeing tasks on a spreadsheet
    spread sheet notes
  • Excel Spreadsheets which automatically download and work
    spread sheet notes
  • Function Library, Precalc Notes, More Precalc Notes
    library
  • The Questionbooks -- Writing-to-Learn, "Critical Thinking Skills" Assignments
    • Algebra
      QB
    • Precalc
    • Calc
      QB, graded assignments
    • Arithmetic Quest.
      QB, graded assignments


 

EXTRA-CURRICULAR MATH MATERIALS


Pre-Kindergarden



LOWER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MATERIALS





 

MIDDLE SCHOOL MATERIALS

  • "A Game for Two Players" Using words such as multiple, multiply, divisible, divide, prime, composite, add, and subtract, reinforce math vocabulary skills and provide practice with mental computation [5 kb].
  • Primes to 101 Ideal for middle school introduction or remedial review.
  • The Hundreds Board is the MOST VALUABLE manipulatives in elementary mathmatics. This page will introduce you to this concrete mathematics language!! AND, IT IS AN IDEA RESOURCE FOR INTEGER COMPUTATION. You should not pass up this opportunity.
  • SIGNED NUMBER 100s Board is the MOST VALUABLE manipulatives in middle school integer computation.
  • Integer Hundreds Board -- negative-positve board (0 on left)
  • Term Tiles Masters -
    x2, x, 1: front (required)     -x2, -x, -1: back (optional)
  • "Who Has" - Signed Numbers Group Game One of a family of mental computation math games for a group. Ideal for prealgebra or algebra classes.
  • "Prime Factorization Puzzle/Practice" This is a prime recognition and prime factorization board. Come play.
  • Height at adulthood based on birth length and percentiles on logistic curve -- Use the data the medical doctors use and the heights and ages of your students to estimate their heights at adulthood.
  • Word Problems at the January 2012 Irvington Effective Collaboration/Communication, Effective Instruction, and Rigor as We Prepare for the HSPA/NJASK Inservice.




 

"Who Has" Games





HIGH SCHOOL & COLLEGE MATERIALS

EXPLORING FUNCTION THROUGH THE USE OF MANIPULATIVES and the
        Graphing w/Manipulatives Product Line
      They are the MOST VALUABLE manipulatives in secondary mathmatics. Function manipulatives may be used in:
  • representing or graphing expressions,
  • presenting translantions, reflections, and dilations of functions,
  • finding "inverses",
  • solving equations,
  • explaining the composition of functions,
  • introducing and developing the concept of slope, domain and range.
      The materials listed below come from the publication EXPLORING FUNCTION THROUGH THE USE OF MANIPULATIVES, © 1994, Agnes Azzolino, ISBN: 0-9623593-3-5. It, as other material at mathnstuff.com is provided for not-for-profit at no cost to the user. Please remember to site the source.


MOSTLY MATHEMATICS  

  • AMTNJ 12/2011 "Multiplication"
    * Experiment with activities that set the stage for multiplication,
    * reinforce textbook work,
    * review multiplication after mastery is demanded.
    * See how it meshes with other math topics.
    * Play a few games.
    * Leave singing.
  • AMTNJ 2/2012 "Functions in 4 Modalities
    -- The Visual, Auditory, Symbolic, and Kinesthetic"
        Functions are at the core of the high school core curriculum. Examine how they may be approached via different learning styles or modalities.
        Use the spoken word, written symbols and words, pictures, graphs, and manipulatives to introduce, address, expand upon fucntion related standards.
  • AMATYC 11/2010     MATYCNJ 3/2010     NCTM 10/2011
    "30+ Centuries of Computation in a 21st-Century Format"
        From names, to digits and body parts, to tally sticks, to tokens and coins, to numerals, to calculi/sand tables/abacuses, to Napier's bones and slide rules, but no Pascal's adding machine, no Jacquard loom, and no computers, examine math history digitally from the Sumerians to the Egyptian, through the Middle Ages, to the Renaissance, in a format that is not just appropriate, but one which enhances the 21st-century classroom.
        See how one might extend the typical liberal arts math book content to enrich the professor’s presentation format and a student's lab assignment. Digitally dust off museum pieces and little-used manipulatives, and a few new tokens, and consider passing these treasures on to the next generation.

  • AMATYC '09 "Make Excel part of your daily class work" to
    * create accurate class records (saving time and material),
    * permit quick review of prior work,
    * model the creative process for student to emulate,
    * easily work and save DIGITAL MANIPULATIVE work,
    * include labs and graphics (Alt+PrintScreen) and hot computational cells in every class.
  • AMTNJ09, 10.2009 & 12.2009 - "Digital Manipulative -- Ancient & Modern"
  • Les manipulatives numériques, 7.2009 - ICTMT09, Metz, France
  • Term Tiles & Tokens in Algebra I & II, 3.20.2009 - Rutgers Precalc Meeting
  • MEC09, 3.09.2008 - "Math Stuff"
  • Term Tiles & Tokens, 12.03.2008 - "The Visual / Auditory / Symbolic / Kinesthetic Approach to Algebra"
  • "Semi Equation/Semi Expression"- This transition stage between the written word and the written symbol facilitates translation the coding of word problems/expressions into algebraic equiations/expressions.
  • A Model for Distance
  • Rutgers Precalc, March 17, 2008 - "Precalc & Algebra w/Spreadsheet"

 

MOSTLY EDUCATION  

  • "A Feedback Loop for the Classroom" AMTNJ, Jan 13, 2010.
        Consider assessment on a micro-scale, a classroom scale. REALLY look at test and quiz results to monitor and inform students of their progress and to determine modification to instruction. See examples of how student mastery grows.
  • "Use Paint Shop and a Stylus to Improve Instruction"
        Use Paint Shop and a stylus to create and post colorful and clear daily class notes, to review before a test or on a daily basis, to screen capture and store in notes, to clarify class work during an office hour, to prepare for tomorrow's work, to go over a test, and TO MAXIMIZE THE TIME YOU SPEND LOOKING AT STUDENTS.


The Craft of Teaching Math
      Selected Letters
        Preface
        Table of Contents
        Cover
        Letter to My Students, A First Day of Class Ritual

     
  • 10% Graduation Rate -

    •       How, through a sequence of well-intentioned choices, US Higher Education moved from first in the world to 12th.
  • In Hopes of A Regime Change
          Consider ways to remediate the remediation!
  • "Test Results"
          A spreadsheet way of looking at how students have performed on a given test.
  • "A Teacher's Opinion"
         Suggestions to the university prof, school superintendent, novice teacher, department chair, and experienced teacher on HOW TO HELP TEACHERS REMAIN IN TEACHING.
  • "Quizzes: Lessons for Students, Lessons for Teachers"
    What's a quiz? Testing at its best!
          It is a student, challenged by material, with unpenalized multiple chances for documentation of complete mastery of material, with a teacher acting as a coach and evaluator, with no outside party having an interest in the tesing process.
  • Teaching, Not Professing
          Notes from MCC 8/26/03 Faculty Inservice & Other Thoughts
  • "Readiness Rating"- Paired with an academic indicator of readiness for a course should be a rating from this scale of readiness for the course or subject. (A Work In Progress)
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  • "The Languages of the Math Classroom"
          Presented in October 1998, this perspective on learning / teaching / communicating grow as new pieces of the communication puzzle become clear to me.
          It presents the justificiation, the rational, for the way I daily determine how to organize a class and present material."
  • "A Walk Down the Hall to Examine Modalities"
          The Mother Tongue(s) and Four Broad Math Class Languages (Auditory/Verbal, Symbolic/Written, Visual/Pictorial, and Concrete/Kinesthetic) permit many means of communication. Examine some of them.
  • "Math Assessment Inventory: A Journey with Self-Assessment as a Compass" is an interactive tool for a teacher-initiated self-evaluation of assessment strategies.

Students' Words


 

OTHER GOOD STUFF


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